Found this on the web: https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/lancia/stratos/2015/731967
Do we know who the car belongs to?
Found this on the web: https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/lancia/stratos/2015/731967
Do we know who the car belongs to?
Last edited by Griff; 19-02-2020 at 11:57.
I do.
It's the ex Nigel Wilkinson car.
With a new Alitalia colour scheme, and the Magnesium coffin spokes changed from red to yellow.
You can see the indicators and the position of the cut of pulls on this photo:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22961613@N06/28286020526/
Bloody L, well spotted, Chris! Although I do worry about ya sometimes....
So that's not a bad profit, if it sells for the asking price (£91K on the website). So do we deduce that the Belgian guy who Phil met at Dover, when he'd just collected it on a trailer, was somehow disappointed in it? Or did he think he'd make a fat profit by repainting it and then moving it on? Either way it's not good for the car's provenance, as it'll have changed hands twice in less than a year. It'd sure make me extremely wary... actually, maybe that's the reason for the repaint, to disguise it from unsuspecting peeps who don't have a Chris to hand to cut through the smoke and mirrors
Sadly, someone (was it, I might be wrong?) at Northallerton, once suggested to me that the car's first owner and its original constructor, poor Nigel - unfortunately and rather tragically - may once have had quite a bad moment in it. (Involving a line of parked cars?)
Please don't quote me on that, I may well be completely wrong and am willing to be corrected....
Last edited by Two-Eight-Six; 20-02-2020 at 17:14. Reason: clarity
I'm now well past the 'worrying' stage, and more into thoughts of 'confinement for his own good'...
The evidence is all pointing to there being something not right with this car - I too had heard tales of it not driving properly, and thought it might be badly setup suspension. But if two people have moved it on, it sounds like it's something major. All supposition, without firm evidence, though... anyone who'd be interested in it would be well advised to take it for a test drive, and if that's refused - walk away!
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