think jedi
True Classic
Back story:
I picked up this Lancia Scorpion from a shop in Brisbane in 2016. Athough I didn't know it at the time, it had been featured on Bring a Trailer. It had been sitting for a couple of years. It featured sad-looking white paint, surface rust starting to show in various places, and some god-awful Honda bumpers that were retrofitted on the car in an ill-conceived effort to make it look like a Montecarlo. I have to hand it to the previous owner...the front bumper almost worked. The rear...not so much. It had an ANSA quad tip exhaust, but also came with the stock exhaust.
The car ran (unbelievably), so I was able to drive it from Brisbane to Palo Alto with one tail light out and long-expired plates. Yeah, I was dumb. But I made it. After my buddy went over the engine to be sure things were OK, he put on the stock exhaust back on and attempted to smog it. It failed twice and finally managed to pass the 3rd time. Barely. Then someone backed into it and smashed the driver's front fender. After dicking with Geico (the culprit's insurance company), I managed to get $2500 to get the fender back into shape.
With smog in hand, he put the fun ANSA exhaust back on and drove it to Monterey and delivered it to me.
This is what it looked like in 2013...
this is what it looked like when I got it...
tJ
I picked up this Lancia Scorpion from a shop in Brisbane in 2016. Athough I didn't know it at the time, it had been featured on Bring a Trailer. It had been sitting for a couple of years. It featured sad-looking white paint, surface rust starting to show in various places, and some god-awful Honda bumpers that were retrofitted on the car in an ill-conceived effort to make it look like a Montecarlo. I have to hand it to the previous owner...the front bumper almost worked. The rear...not so much. It had an ANSA quad tip exhaust, but also came with the stock exhaust.
The car ran (unbelievably), so I was able to drive it from Brisbane to Palo Alto with one tail light out and long-expired plates. Yeah, I was dumb. But I made it. After my buddy went over the engine to be sure things were OK, he put on the stock exhaust back on and attempted to smog it. It failed twice and finally managed to pass the 3rd time. Barely. Then someone backed into it and smashed the driver's front fender. After dicking with Geico (the culprit's insurance company), I managed to get $2500 to get the fender back into shape.
With smog in hand, he put the fun ANSA exhaust back on and drove it to Monterey and delivered it to me.
This is what it looked like in 2013...
this is what it looked like when I got it...
tJ