While I was in the hospital, my classic Italian sports car—the 1967 Lancia Fulvia Coupé—was in the body shop having some rust repair of the rocker panels done. I'm out of the hospital now, and Signora Fulvia is also back at home.
In the course of doing the rust repair, I changed its looks a little bit by painting the rocker panels a textured flat black, instead of the matched tan body color, and removed the original chrome trim strips that ran under the doors on both sides. The result came out just as I'd hoped: A slightly trimmer, sportier look and more in keeping with the early '70s Cromodora wheels that I've now got fitted than the late '60s Campagnolo rally wheels that I'd had on the car before. https://flic.kr/p/2oLFwr7 :: Fulvia, Refinish Rocker Panels While that was being done, I had also located the original badging for the rear ("LANCIA Fulvia" in fine chrome on the transom) and a pair of the 'bumper support' caps that cover the spots in the bodywork where the rear bumper supports used to come through… https://flic.kr/p/2oLD4Mh :: Fulvia, New Tail Badge …because everyone, or at least *almost* everyone, with a Lancia Fulvia Coupé removes the bumpers to make the car look more like the Lancia Fulvia rally cars that won so many races in the late 1960s-early 1970s. :) Photos made with iPhone 11 Pro using the Moment camera app, raw output, and rendered in Lightroom Classic. Oh yes: My partner, Felipe, picked the car up for me a few days before I returned home. He made a few snaps of it with his phone to show me what had been done. I put them together into a short video presentation, just for the fun of it: https://flic.kr/p/2oKzr9J Enjoy! G — No matter where you go, go there in a Lancia. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
