[pescara]

Hi there,

I would like to share the adventures of a wreck that did not want to disappear.

Stored for years under the roof of a barn, the skeleton naked, this car awaited the passage of the scrap metal.
What remained of the parts, crushed, deformed, modified, for years, were scattered around, in an incomprehensible mess.

As I am rather sensitive to the fate of heritage, when I heard about an impossible rescue involving forgotten remains, I rushed to go and see.

I could only distinguish a shape, which I quickly recognized and clusters of parts, not always identifiable.
I convinced the owner of the barn that the future of the "thing" was more secure in my hands than in those of the metal trader.

A couple of parts and pieces of metal later...
Welcome into my world.

 

[Raimondo]

Ha; the limit straps gave it away

Ray

 

[pescara]

The limit straps are the good news of the car....

Absolutely the whole car is massacred :

 

[Raimondo]

Chris,,

Today's massacre is next year's masterpiece

Besides, you can't swing a dead cat in Pescara w/o hitting a restoration shop like Classic Restore? It seems they do great work, but I bet they love the coin of the realm!

Ray

 

[AlfistiSA]

Chris I see a bare bones frame of a LWB Spider there... & the pic of the double scoop hints that it was once a Veloce.... do I hear the sounds of an aluminium SVZ evocation in the making ??

Ciao
Greig

 

[jkbartusek]

Greig,
Don’t all 101 Spiders have the double scoop? My Normale does.
Joe

 

[Raimondo]

He may be referring to the deviated scoop on the DS, just below the head lamp/light bowl.

But, he'll clear this up in short order

Ray

 

[Barn101]

I thought it was the hood. Hmmm.

 

[pescara]

No evocation here, just back to original car.

After a list of work to do, we arrived at :

• new wings
• new floors
• new rockers
• new doors
• new hood
• new trunk
• new wheel arches
• new seats
• new chromes
• new fuel tank
• new wiring loom
• ton of new parts
• and the rest...

maybe better find new car ?

 

[Barn101]

You can just move number 12 to the top! Blast, prime, save what’s left for future accidents.

 

[Gordon Raymond]

Here is what WILL happen. Over time, enough similar colossal wrecks will appear, gathering around this one. Eventually all will donate their remaining life to a single candidate, who will then mysteriously rise from the ashes as a complete concourse Spider Veloce. I've seen it before, and it makes me HAPPY. Cost is seldom the deciding factor. Usually serious resolve and a caring hand.
Just my opinion as usual.

 

[AlfistiSA]

Yup the little pipe just poking up from the top of the air collector is a Veloce only item.

Be interesting to watch this one come back to life

Ciao
Greig

 

[divotandtralee]

This is not a P-38 from some glacier in Greenland ..as we grow .. we grow with focus.

 

[330.gtc]

I thought I saw a propeller in there....

 

[VabeneGTV]

Just buff it out, should clean tight up, maybe...

 

[pescara]

Back from sanf blasting....

 

[Gordon Raymond]

Mercy!

 

[330.gtc]

I would say DRATS!

 

[PSk]

Watching

Pete

 

[AlfistiSA]

Now that IS a Lightweight Spider.....