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Old 10-09-12, 06:27 PM   #1
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Default it's Italian, it's Turbocharged, and it's......

......a bloody miracle that it hasn't rusted away!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-LANCI...#ht_741wt_1291

and no, I'm NOT tempted!!!
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Old 10-09-12, 06:57 PM   #2
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Hehe - I am, it's been on my watch list since it went on. Aren't these a rebadged Uno Turbo IE?

I've also been eyeing it's sleepy Japanese cousin http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3007726380...84.m1438.l2649
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Clamida on wheels....
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Wheels from an Uno turbo Abarth by the look of it! Probably had the same wheels.

Death on wheels! Coke can.
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Old 10-09-12, 07:35 PM   #5
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Luddites.
It's a cracking, amusing little buzz-box!
So what if it doesn't have an Audi badge, stop being so bloody parochial!!!
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Seems it was only on the road for a year after it was bought.

Date of Liability 30 01 1987
Date of First Registration 13 12 1985
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Old 10-09-12, 07:51 PM   #7
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Seems it was only on the road for a year after it was bought.

Date of Liability 30 01 1987
Date of First Registration 13 12 1985
That appears to have been about 12 months too long....
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Luddites.
It's a cracking, amusing little buzz-box!
So what if it doesn't have an Audi badge, stop being so bloody parochial!!!
not me, not even got an Audi on the road!!

Gurgel, Imp, Landy, Porsche, VW, all taxed and tested but nowt with 4 rings!!
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Luddites.
Not me, spent my youth running around in an Uno turbo Abarth.. (wasn't mine)

Death on wheels.
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Not me, spent my youth running around in an Uno turbo Abarth.. (wasn't mine)

Death on wheels.
spent my 2nd (or 3rd!) youth smoking BM's off the lights in a Strada Abarth...


One word - Torquesteer! (okay, maybe 2!)
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