ummm,, buying a Fulvia

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I will post, for as many days as it takes, in reverse order - some details of looking for / looking at / buying a Fulvia in IT


New fulvia 1

We have been recently informed & shown "in the paint" that the latest trend in "auto-body/chassis restoration" is to paint the vehicle underside with the same paint/same color as the upper side; to then flood those areas with tons of wax.
Thick inches / several tons of black-tar undercoating (inside cabin & under floor) is out of fashion
I assume that too much "unseen-damage" can be hidden.

Now we understand why our newly purchased Fulvia Cpe -that we are to transport on 12 May from Cremona, IT to Brescia, IT for "final-preps" prior to having it truck-transported to Heidelberg has a lovely shiny white underfloor/wheel well paint decor....the latest fad !

OK, we will learn to love it !

[lucasgeheniau]

Hi John,

Are there Fulvia spareparts you need? I accept payments in Grappa......

We, my figlio Jeroen and I, made some very nice mead last year and we have some 20 litres in production now.

Cheers Lucas (not Lukas)

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oops, LuCas

by dint of my living in DE - since Uncla -am sent me here in Times of Moses - bit by bit all words / names with a "C" bekame words with "K"; at least in DE CH / DE / AT & parts of LUX

However,from this moment on - when I talk to you / write you / write about you .... you will always be LuCas in my mind.

1 Xception of the "K" rule is lovely Sports-Lady Carla of Walldorf (Wall Town) where we co-reside; she is & has always been Carla with a C.. Still, she being German in DE, Carla is usually spelled Karla with a "K"; she has given up correcting everyone, documents, invoices, emails....she never thought to ask her (German in Germany) parents why she is Carla

anways- John is Ivan in many E. Euro languages; which means I am often referred to as Ivan; I call (sometimes) my Ivan friends "H`John"; which is better than "a boy named Sue" ha ha. In IT I am not Johnny; I become "Gianni"; which is a better name than Bennito !

Good Song by the (USA Band) Hooters - "Karla with a K"

[lucasgeheniau]

Ahh, Ivan!! Crazy Ivan, that was the manoevre Sean made in the hunt for the red october!!
They named that after you.... )))))

[ekranoplan]

I get the opposite problem in UK - people always forget the K and write C !

Lukas (not Lucas) !

[lucasgeheniau]

Hi Lukas, Lucas does not mind! -D