I can remember ferrying a friend to collect his car from a body shop in Dorchester (Dorset) in 1978. In the yard was an unregistered Lancia Beta HPE. We asked the chap what had been wrong with it - expecting the answer to be about a ding getting it off the transporter. His response was that it had been in for rust removal and re-painting. At that point, it had not even been driven here - imagine how the winter salt would have affected it. No wonder we see very few 70's Lancia's around.
