In 43 years it accumulated 36,000 miles and needed an engine rebuild. That’s impressive even by Italian standards.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:In 43 years it accumulated 36,000 miles and needed an engine rebuild. That’s impressive even by Italian standards.
Don't get your hopes up. That might be it's second engine rebuild.
At some point in my life, I will probably make the Lancia Scorpion Mistake, and that one is only an hour away. But an obscure Italian car that needs a windshield and rust that is visible on Craigslist?
Nope. Not a chance.
I was suprised at the Price a Little, At 1 grand ya Might consider another 5 to fix it some, I don't think a resto but some kinda BA streetable racer, To restore stuff is not for the Faint hearted Anymore.
I don’t like bringing it up...but; I bought mine out of the trader paper in Chicago; viewed it at night and loaded it up. It broke in the middle when I was unloading it at home. Parted it out on eBay iirc. This was pre-CL but I flinch when I see one for sale.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:In 43 years it accumulated 36,000 miles and needed an engine rebuild. That’s impressive even by Italian standards.
Popped a timing belt, lunched the motor, sat while the owner took their time fixing it.
Take all the Fiat rust stories you have heard and multiply them by 3 for Scorpion rust. The only good to come from the X1/20 project was the 037 and the group 5 race cars. Stock Scorpions are not the magic that an X1/9 is, a shame really.....
This car would be perfect donor for that kit. So the kit would set you back $15K US plus shipping, paint, proper engine.....
In reply to dherr :
i didn't do the math on the us/nz dollars but i bet you could resell that for $15k easily. got to be at least a few wealthy rally collectors this side of the pond even for a replica. of course your labor would be free or more correctly paid for in hooning it for a year or two before resale.
I agree once it was completed, it would be worth far more than if you tryed to restore the Scorpion back to original. Those kits are really cool, just use the center of the chassis and have front and rear subframes to hang the bodywork. Really nice looking cars when done.
Having spent more than a few hours labor on a very nice original 037, the NZ kit is an accurate reproduction of the original car, less the supercharger. Pic of original on street across from my house, and leaking fuel from bag tank with no can. Repro is much nicer there!
to be honest this thread now needs to moved to the cool jobs thread in off-topic. 'What do you do for a living?' ' Well I take a E36 M3 Italian car and turn it into a groovy Italian car'. Say that in an Eddie Izzard voice.
Look close on the craigslist pictures and you see that the seller already has the double bubble hard roof that is "taken" from the 037. These cars always had fabric roofs when new.
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