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more about #1976lanciascorpion more comments → SeanKHotay: Can't you fit a Dino engine in the Scorpion? more » bygeorge: I was so taken in by the Lancia, until I read what a piece of sh*t it was on Wikipedia ([en.wikipedia.org]) Rock on once again, Austin Healey! more » SundaySunday: I find it funny that most of the questions to the seller refer to the other cars on the transporter. Anyways, it's mid-engined, wedgy, and penned by P... more » Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness: The Sprite ... a little sheetmetal work, just about any Datsun A series engine, you is good to go. more » thunder; now eta-powered: Sprite. No contest. Especially considering the dead wildlife under the back bumper. more » PatFromGundo: Whichever one will accept a 12A more willingly, that's the one for me. more » Dave7: 5:36 gears on that Sprite? Must be out of a Morris 8 or something. You'd have a top end of 80km/h or something equally silly. more » Graverobber: Oh man, this is too easy. A sprite without rust is like a day without a poop. Lighter goes faster my friends! A sprite can take about as much oxidizat... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: The Sprite is basically a tractor wearing bathing trunks. It's very simple and you can fix most things with a hammer. On the other hand, the Lancia ... more » MushyHeirloom: All four Scorpions. Oh, you can't, can you. Hey, check out all the rust on the front quarter of the one they're actually selling in this auction... lo... more » Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: I was going to make a comment about the nationality of the pope, then I realized that Ms. Martin isn't stupid. Way to pull one over on me. I had to go... more » P161911 probably shoudn't have: Many a A-H sprite is STILL turning a wheel in anger, parts are only as far away as the web or a catalog. Might be impossible to keep under the $500 bu... more » smalleyxb122: Anyone else see an eerie portrait of Einstein in the lettering/patina/random paint fade on the passenger door of the Sprite? more » Six Flags Over Tomsk: Wow... British electrics vs. Italian electrics? British rust vs. Italian rust? British engine gremlins vs. Italian engine gremlins? Sorry, I say it's ... more » smalleyxb122: Sell the cage from the Sprite to fund an engine. Then buy a new cage that doesn't count against your budget. Simple. Then sell the whole thing and b... more » -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Totally Affordable Racing Madness: Austin Healey Sprite or Lancia Scorpion?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, the Ferrari 328GTS vanquished the Japanese upstart NSX in a PCH Superpower Smackdown, which should make fellow PCH Superpowers Britain and France- unsettled since a Glas beat a Lotus day before yesterday- breathe a sigh of relief. Today we're going to let a couple of Superpowers have at it, in a Sub-$500 Race Car Challenge: Britain versus Italy!
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#chooseyoureternity
Project Car Hell: Lancia Scorpion or Merkur XR4Ti?
The blowout Choose Your Eternity polls are fun, but we really enjoy the nail-bitingly close races... which is what we got yesterday, with the Roots-blown Old Beetle just barely beating the Pro Street Peugeot in a 175-165 vote split. Does that mean a German car just upset Project Car Hell GigaTeraPower France, or does the Detroit engine water down the 200-proof Frenchness of the Peugeot? We'll leave that question open for now, because today we're going to see how an Italian basket case fares against a brutalized European Ford! More »
