Lancia Fulvia, metal flake paint, still in the family, so not lost forever.

My first car, a mini, both the wife( then girlfriend) and i had just passed our test within a few months of each other we went to Cornwall camping, it took us 14 hours, as we were following her parents, and they got lost, oh what fun, another car I had was an alfasud, boy was that thing quick, do a hundred easy and the torque steer wow, it had a lovely exhaust burble as well , until I smashed it up on black ice into another car, I had it repaired though, shortly after that the head gasket went, but was fortunate to have a bil who was (still is ) mechanically minded and we were able to fix it, it was the dreaded rust, however, that did for it in the end, you could almost see the dreaded tin worm munching away at it! , sold it on in the end before it got too bad

Was that the Ferrari engined Lancia?

Yeah, the Fulvia was a 1300cc V4, a very pretty car, renowned for it's handling

I agree, a very nice looking car indeed. That classic Italian look.

I had a Lancia HPE for a while. That was a great car but suffered the usual rot.

I had a LHD Lancia Delta Integrale for 9 hours.

The ink hadn't even dried on the Banker's Draft

Funny you say that.
A mate of mine Andy bought a white one (lhd) brand new.

He came down after he'd had it about a week to take me for a spin. He lost it on a corner causing around £8k worth of damage!
He was gutted. Trouble is, he was used to fwd and had not quite got the hang of driving a 4wd fast.