1989 Autobianchi (Lancia) Y10 Fire.

Oh man that is so cool. Such neat lines and those wheels suit it perfectly. I've never seen one of these before.

Please more photos!

Oh this has so much WIN written all over it...

The car was converted to LPG, this was to stop it from being scrapped due to an Italian scrappage scheme. LPG converted cars were exempt. This was after I scrubbed a lot Turin dirt and muck:



So obviously the car was way too high, there is NOTHING available off the shelf apart from springs so first attempt at lowering were homemade coilovers:


I bought these OZs years ago, had nothing to fit them on at the time but I knew I would at some point! Fully refurbed and coated silver with 155/65r13 Uniroyal. Slightly lower profile tyre than the Turbo Y10 ran


Sitting nice but ride was terrible on the homemade coilovers, nowhere near enough travel.

Test fit the wheels off my Cinquecento, just because!

After attending the gathering every year since it moved to Shelsey, last year I finally had something running that I could park in the retro parking! A proud moment for me!



Brooklands Auto Italia 2019, much to my surprise there was anothe Y10. Howmanyleft has the number of UK road legal Y10s at something like 10 in total.










Me (on the right) and Guido, the guy that very kindly gave me the car in the first place.

Before I got the car I wanted to modify it but keep the OE vibe of the car, OEM+ as the kids say. I have a 16v swapped Cinquecento that is stripped and caged so I wanted the Y10 to go a different route. I'm keeping the tiny Weber 32 on the car and the 1242 8v is basically the same engine as the 999 it will replace.

Punto 60 airbox, very similar to the Y10 box but bigger


Will keep the OE look


The throttle body is much bigger on the Punto so chopped up a square number plate to make an adaptor to get it to fit the carb


Took the moulded "fuel injection" lettering off the box, painted with bumper repair paint to keep the textured plastic look.


It's a shame I'll be loosing the Lancia badge but I'll like the subtle reference to the new engine. Quite happy with the end result, looks OE enough to me.

Got very lucky and managed to get hold of a set of Y10 Leda coilovers. There are only 2 or 3 sets in existence so was very happy. Despite being pretty old they completely change the way the car rides, I'm running new Koni reds on the rear though with chopped Cinquecento springs


After a lick of paint, versus the very old OE stuff

I'm always browsing little 4x98 wheels on Italian eBay and a set of Atiwe 13x7 ET20 came up, had to have them!


165/55r13 Nankang, the closest I've had to stretched tyres.

The series 1 & 2 did, the third series had coloured. Looks a lot like a Cinquecento with the coloured tailgate. 

Some of the posh special editions of the early models (like the super cool Fila editions) had painted tailgates. I have no idea why they were all black, my Italian friend told me that when they first came out in the early 80s he thought they had plastic tailgates! Shame they didn't as the tailgate is one of the bits that like to rust! Mine is on it's second and I'm going to replace it soon anyway.