After saying above about how long before I see another Sei ,I go out on foot ,

firstly I see my first Barchetta on the road all year ,the 4 I saw at DTR on MOT

fail day don't count ,a Grigio R reg going top down ,nice day so why not .

Then on the same road 1/2 hour later I see a young person in a black Sei ,

same year as Minty ...

I'm going to start waving at Sei owners when out driving in Minty .....:wave:

I'll see if it catches on .

I'm going to continue with pics from events I travel to ,even though they are now in a less interesting FIAT than before .

Went to the Concours of Elegance yesterday at Hampton Court .

Just a few of the best Italians there .

Ferraris.....250 GTO , 250 LM , 365 P , 275 Competizione , 250 GT Ellena ,

Miura , Bizzarinni , Mini 250 GTO and TR , Lusso .

Delighted that you're continuing this thread, in memoriam to your well-travelled Barchetta. I think it's my favourite thread on this forum. When I see you've added a new post during the car event season, I always think "Oh goody!"

As I have done nothing about advertising my car for sale complete , I will post here to try to sell any bits of it that might be useful to the members .

I have sent a PM to the bloke after the instruments .

To be honest , there isn't much of my car that is of much use .

Driver's side headlamp was new and fitted for only about 2 years .

Standard steel wheels were refurbished before I got it in 2012 and are still quite smart after 75000 miles passing , tyres are toasted .

It has the dual exit , 4 pipes in all exhaust tailpipes , with the bumper cut out to suit .

Anyone want a set of Alfa Romeo 155 alloys , painted post office red , 2 very good Uniroyal RS5s fitted , 2 others toasted .

The engine runs well , considering it's done 155000 miles , shame the battery has died .

If anyone wants it , we could discuss selling it complete before it gets bits removed .
Send me a PM please .

I do need to keep the car roll able on 4 wheels when it gets dragged off to the Autostrada in the sky .

Where are you based?

Banstead , Surrey ,it's near J8 M25.

I'm slowly peeling off ALL of the stickers I stuck to the body of this .

Today I yanked off the large Swedish museum sticker on the bottom of the driver's door and took 4 inches of paint off too .

Now you see it ,now you don't .

Red Alfa wheels off too .

These pics of the passenger side were taken in October .

It's probably too late but a hot air gun is a good idea for undoing old stickers. Unless your plan is to do a full paint job anyway.
Sorry to see all this individuality go : )

I started to type this post in Chris' bumper thread but decided to do it here instead , just scrolled through the entire thread , a lot of the pics here have subsequently been lost on 2 different defunct lap tops and a broken phone so good to see them again .

The pic I posted on the bumper thread is of my favourite spot in Italy , a garage that's rarely open and the yard and grassy area are stuffed full of old cars , mostly Italian and Citroen Meharis , the plastic 2CV jeep thing .

The pics are luckily on this laptop from 2013 or 14 so here's a few of them .
I checked ,none of these have been seen here before .

Pics coming

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more , pressed wrong button on last one

this will do for now

There are some sorely neglected gems in there (that Fulvia! oof!), but by golly, I do believe the 4th photo in the middle set is a Matra Bagheera!

(Must declare an interest here, as a Matra owner. I'd have loved to own a Bagheera, which was one of my teenage dream cars, but rust in the chassis kills them. The Murena, which was the Bagheera's replacement, had a galvanised chassis - the first production car to have one - which is probably why mine is still on the road. Just don't ask me to choose between it and my B )

You're right Gar , it is a Bagheera , there are some quite rare cars in there .

Things have changed very little there between the first visit in 2008 to my lastin 2019.

There was a sorry looking Maserati Biturbo there in 2008 ,still there 2010 but gone by the time I went back for the first time in the FIAT in 2013 .

Other rarities include 2 Citroen DSs , the white car in the first lot of pics is an Innocenti Primula .

Here's a few more .

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There's the Biturbo and the Citroens mentioned .

Must stop looking at that red DS and wondering... Based on the front end, door handles and colour (assuming it hasn't been resprayed) I'm guessing it's a 1971 non-Pallas DS. Must resist, must resist . . .

There are some right old rarities in there! Such a pity they've been left to moulder away, to the point where many of them look beyond rescuing.

A chum of mine visited a similar vehicle graveyard in Essex a few weeks ago - an innocuous bungalow with a driveway, backyard and various outbuildings full of '60s and '70s cars in various states of disintegration. He bought a very early, low mileage Dolly Sprint for a few hundred £. Fully restored, he reckons it will be worth at least £30-40k, but heaven knows how much time & effort will be needed in order to achieve that kind of money. He's done 2 Sprints before, so I guess he knows what he's getting into.

Wiltshire Chris said:

Must stop looking at that red DS and wondering... Based on the front end, door handles and colour (assuming it hasn't been resprayed) I'm guessing it's a 1971 non-Pallas DS. Must resist, must resist . . .

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Just to help you resist , it's in a village called San Leonardo in Treponzio just a
few miles south of Lucca , Tuscany .

You can't miss it .it's on the corner of the main road through the village .