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Thought I would post a short note to introduce myself and post some pictures of my new (to me) Fulvia coupe: http://www.petercripps.com/Lancia/

It's a strange mixture of years and series. The engine is an 818-303, it has a 5-speed gearbox, but the body seems to be from an earlier model, with aluminium hood and doors. And instruments are the later white-background type.

Body is is good shape, no significant rust evident (yet), but there is some damage at the back; the bottom of the rear panel has been pushed in by an inch or so. The electrical system is a total mess, although I'm gradually getting things working again - lights, horn, wipers, etc. The main mechanical problem is stiff steering, as mentioned in another thread, but I'm leaving that until I've sorted all the key electical issues. Engine runs fine, and gears shift OK, apart from getting used to the dog-leg 1st!

Although this is my first Lancia, I've owned several Fiats over the last 30 years: three 124 coupes and a 124 spider that I still have: http://www.petercripps.com/Fiat/spider.jpg . And I learned to drive in a Fiat 500 Giardiniera: http:/www.petercripps.com/Fiat/PBG84.jpg . Obviously the start of an Italian addiction!

Happy New Year to all,

Peter

The instruments, steering wheel and seats are 3rd series. The grille and headlight surrounds are 2nd series. The wooden dash is not original.

It is definetely an S2 or S3 body. The alu parts are surely added later.

BTW, the S3 does technically not exist. Technically it is still a series 2 which was called Fulvia 3 when it got the head rests, white instruments and the black steering wheel.

More information ... I've noticed several things that suggest the car is a mixture of different series:

S1 features:
aluminium panels
Rear brakes (Dunlop calipers)
Rotary heater controls (dash sliders not connected)

S2 features:
5 speed gearbox
818-303 engine
Front brakes (2 brake lines per side)
Master cylinder (looks like picture in S2 owners manual)
wiring loom (mostly, some discrepancies in color coding)

S3 features:
Black-on-white instruments
Steering wheel

At, least, I think that's what these features indicate ... still climbing the learning curve here!

Peter

Looks like one of the previous owners had an S1 donor car from which he took the alu panels and the light weight rear axle, which means the Dunlop brakes as well.

The heater of the S2/3 is much better than the heater of the S1. It has two weak points though which are the operation of the heater cock which is combined with the operation of the hot air / cold air mixing flaps and the heater cock itself. I can understand the rotary controls if they are used to seperate the operations of mixing flaps and heater cock. I can understand it even better if also an S1 heater cock was installed.