Looks good. The wheels still have a Lancia personality, and the removal of the chrome strips is in keeping with competition versions of the Fulvia I’ve seen.
Paul > On Jul 7, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > > Nice, tasteful mods ! > > > > > Ken Waller > -----Original Message----- > From: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Jul 1, 2023 1:29 AM > To: PDML <PDML@pdml.net>, PAW Picture-A-Week project <p...@micapeak.com>, > SeePhoto Talk <seeph...@micapeak.com> > Subject: PESO 2023 - Fulvia special - GDG > > 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. > > -- > %(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. -- %(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.
