Flight of the Fulvia

A funny day today. Felt like i got a lot done but can see absolutely no improvement at all. Story of my life with this car.

Door shut covers cut out of fresh metal sorted...well one of them and anyway. Lots of going around the car filling in small holes here and there with the welder just to tidy up jobs i had finished but where i may have blown a hole through etc and thought sod it at the time.

Starting to think about colours now. Its log booked as blue so 100% staying blue but which blue. The original paint is Mendoza blue but that does nothing for me at all. Someone had done a fairly decent paint job in (i think) Azzuro blue. This is the bright blue you see. Very 70s and looks dated and is not a classy colour in my mind at all unless its on a something that means business and would be used in anger between the trees.

I'm leaning towards the dark blue 'Lancia Blu'. I think this is a lovely shade and sits really nicely on the lancia shape. Anyway just thinking out loud really for now.

Cheers

Chap I spoke to yesterday has just bought this. 
I think it looks amazing, and it's a Lancia colour 

I certainly see the charm with this example. I think because I’ve got a slightly similar colour on her at the moment I’m almost sick of seeing it after 3 years of cutting mostly rotten metal away that was hidden beneath it.

I'm liking the attention to detail with the flusher indicators. Coming along nicely

For anyone wondering.. The above pictured color is "Turchese Mereveld." There is a little bit of confusion between that color and "Blu Mendoza," which is darker but can still look a little green depending on the light. My car was sold to me as the turquoise color, but is actually the blu mendoza. Probably my two favorite Fulvia colors though. By the way, Lechler will still mix the original colors for you if you want them (lancisti.net has a paint chart of all the lancia color codes over the years, not just fulvia if you need that for reference).

That doorknob doesn't belong! 😁

Cleaning up the front suspension arms. Those tubular designs aren’t bad are they for a 50 year old car. Got to adore the Lancia engineering...most of the time. Not all the time. 

I'm a bit stuck with this particular part at the moment I can’t get the ball joint off. I’ve tried and tried all day but no movement.

I’ve seen those polybushes Justin. Might have to get a set. Cheers.

Doors, bonnet, boot on today to check gaps. Doors will need some tweaking and I need to sort a nasty gap on the one which grows as it travels down the door. I’ll do it properly. Cut the edge of the wind and rebuild with a better shut line.

Rear suspension almost up now. A few new bolts... a lot of new bolts ordered to replace the old curse word rusty ones that were removed. Tried to replace most corroded with Stainless steel Allen bolts. Always preferred them.

Had a go at fabricating my own front leaf rollers today to replace the awful rubber mount. They came out ok. Need tweaking slightly but the old rally car cage material we had kicking about worked ok. Just need a suitable roller / pin for them. See how I go.