Need some help from my Italian Paso Friends! No Paso content

[jcslocum]

I have added a very rare and unique Ducati to my collection this week but she needs a full restoration and some parts are missing.

There are really NO parts available for this bike here in the USA so I need you guys in Italy to scout around and see what can be had. The 2 side panels are the big items missing and I can use some other parts for the resto. If anyone can fid a source for parts, that would be VERY helpful. I'll also need help buyng and then shipping to the USA or to my office in the UK where I can pick them up.

[paso750]

no Paso content, so off topic ?

Good luck finding parts for a Brio 100. This will be a tough one.
As far as I know it (and the 48) was a copy of the Lambretta 50 so some parts may be interchangeable. The side panels were most likely specific. They are similar shaped as the 1950`s Lambrettas but the front part looks different.
Restoring that will probably exceed it`s market value unless all that brown stuff is grease

G.

[jcslocum]

Certainly off topic but looking for max exposure!!!

[Duc750]

Looks like that famous Italian powdered grease - the stuff with the high ferrous content, c'mon G you know the one - its what Lancia made body shells from for years !

[higgy]

Looks like that famous Italian powdered grease - the stuff with the high ferrous content, c'mon G you know the one - its what Lancia made body shells from for years !

Lancia, Fiat and all the rest....Don't forget the Japs and The good Old US of A and the Germans, ever own a 320i

[paso750]

I guess that is why I drive an Audi

[Duc750]

My 07 A4 was a real rust bucket (it had done 300,000) kilometeres when I agve it back earlier this year though)

to be replaced by a BMW

[paso750]

that´s strange. You know my old one (91). It had 250.000km when I sold it (it`s probably still rolling around in Lituania now, if someone repaired that broken header stud). It had no rust (well, zinc plated) and my actual 99 A6 with 105.000km now neither. What have you done to yours ? Do they throw so much salt in winter ?

[higgy]

I guess that is why I drive an Audi

Common G You really think Audi has anything on BMW besides Pininfarina S.p.A. ?

[paso750]

well, at least mine is rust free

[Duc750]

G,
I think the build quality on all VAG cars (actually with the exception of Skoda has slipped from about 06 onwards - we had a lot of fleet Passats and Jettas that spontaneously combusted (15) and quite a few A4 and A6 that had brake, suspension and engine issues at low mileages - my A4 was replaced with an A6 station wagon and that certainly had lower quality swith gear than a6's even two years older - they have also started to take a lot more sound proofing out of the cars to get them through emissions testing.
A friend of mine is a development engineer for a Major Japanese car maker that also makes bikes and one of his projects recently has been to take 250kgs out of a their mid sized car (small compact in the US)!

Basically they are all at it - whatever though my (new to me) new 1997 BMW 528 is a much nicer car to drive and generally place to be than my 2011 A6 was and to a lesser extent my 07 A4.
Regarding Salt..... yes we spread loads of the stuff but that is more to do with our ability to cope with winter and our national attitude to winter weather. Until this year (and in fact a minority still do) Insurance companies would load your policy and charge you more if you fitted winter tyres to your car as it was considered a non standard modification.
That is somewhat different to a German attitude to winter tyres for sure