JeepinMatt wrote:Carson wrote:I was going to post that same thing but it slipped my mind. I was thinking it was Bill Gates tooDukeOfUndersteer wrote: arnt these illegal in the US?Didn't Bill Gates or someone (Jerry Seinfeld maybe?) get one of these and it sat in Customs for about 15 years?
Yeah it was Gates whose sat for 13 years. Paul Allen (Microsoft no. 2) and Seinfeld also imported them.
I had a Lancia Delta HF back in the day in the mid-90s in Italy. Would love to import one of them! But even back then, when it was less than 10 years old, mine had a good amount of rust starting (and it was garage kept!)....Wonder how hard and $$ it would be to find a clean one.
Bring it over, immediately replace all electricals....win.
How many Integrales did they end up building?
Yes please!!
Honda City Turbo FTW!
-Rob
In reply to rob_lewis:
I believe DukeOfUndersteer posted an eBay link to one of these a couple weeks ago. It was just over the boarder in Canada and an '83 so import legal already.
Edit, Here you go: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/my-ebay-find-and-want-of-the-day-honda-city-turbo/19954/page1/
Could add that, although I'd rather just buy a late MK III rubber-bumper model, convert the exterior to a MK II chrome-bumpered look, add a MK I dash and drop in a Rover V8. It's a few years off anyway.
irish44j wrote: I had a Lancia Delta HF back in the day in the mid-90s in Italy. Would love to import one of them! But even back then, when it was less than 10 years old, mine had a good amount of rust starting (and it was garage kept!)....Wonder how hard and $$ it would be to find a clean one. Bring it over, immediately replace all electricals....win.
Finding earlier ones is getting hard, the 16V and Evo models are easier to find these days. Mine - which was run in Italy until 2001 and has been garage kept by the only UK owner before me - qualifies as a clean one but still has had the windscreen surround replaced, the rear edge of the roof repaired and now needs a tail gate and some more bubbling in the rear roof ironed out. Parts aren't getting any easier to find either, Lancia has discontinued a lot.
JeepinMatt wrote: How many Integrales did they end up building?
I haven't got exact figures - well, I can't find the online source - but from what I remember I think it was somewhere around the 20000 mark, maybe more. It was a pretty successful model for Lancia.
racinginc215 wrote: retractable hardtops I wouldn't count on that. try 1922 and Hudson. or 1935 for Peugeot and the most famous 1957-59 Ford Skyliner the 1956 Gaylord. and a handful of other 50's concept cars. it may be the only one in the 80's
Cool didnt know that
I would absolutely love to import one of these...
Mitsubishi GTO ^
I would rather a Nissan GTiR
aussiesmg wrote: Mitsubishi GTO ^ I would rather a Nissan GTiR
FTO.
I'll take an Excel.
Yep it sounded wrong when I typed it...lol
can't wait to get me one of these!
The Dacia Sandero!
Fiat 500.
Oh, wait...
theres a metric crap-ton of awesomeness in this thread, but waaaaay too much steering-wheel-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-car. That ruins it for me. Ever break your right arm and its in a cast, and you have to learn how to do "everything' with your left hand? well Im not interested in doing that with driving. Gear selection is a task suitable for the right hand only, other layouts need not apply.
let the flaming begin
Eh, I had no trouble with right hand drive cars.
When I was fourteen, I had a friend with a driver's license and a manual transmission Cavalier. When we'd go somewhere, I would shift the trans. The fun part was, he wouldn't tell me when to shift, I'd just have to know.
Once you get used to it, there isn't much difference between driving RHD and LHD cars. Really.
I'm a glutten for punishment and always lusted one of these....
RHD is no big deal. Worst part is walking out to the car and opening the wrong door.
I hate the idea of left hand turns in a RHD car... visibility sucks. Driving it is fine.
Err, we have both left and right hand turns here in the UK. And I do take my RHD cars abroad. As I said, you get used to it and visibility isn't as bad as you make it sound...
I think for me the hard part would be shifting. I'm relatively ambidextrous in some sports--you just do the same thing as if in a mirror, and I fear that I would do the same thing in the car and try to mirror the gears. Of course thats not a huge deal.
Well, I have been known to rummage around the door bin in a LHD car when I intended to change gear and was very tired...
the Lancia is nice... and I would definatly want one.. but I think I would take a strada/ritmo Abarth TC130
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