Bling Bling? Whose there? Lancia with too much Bling!!!

This is the fabled Lancia HF Integrale. It has a remarkable career and most are familiar with its success as a rally car. Except for being a 4 door and the 'wing' on the top, which was on the street version as well, and being a hatchback, I like this car. It has the usual very difficult Martini sticker scheme and is beautifully detailed as always. I added the head mechanics name to the passenger, that’s the driver side to you that drive on the wrong side of the road, window. The chassis of course is the venerable TA01, well it should be, but in this case, well it has been slightly modified. I went through all my junk drawers the other night and found a NIB CRP chassis kit. Then the arms and shaft and then and on and on until all that was left were the gear box cases and a few screws, the rest except for a couple of rear end pieces I didn't just have are Hop-ups. When I bought this stuff a couple of years ago, it went cheap and was easy to get, try and find it now, it is all squirreled away in peoples stash, like mine! I have been a hop-up nut for a long time and then I discovered Tech Racing parts and the infusion really started. My wife says it is my propensity for not leaving well enough alone. Actually this car with all the plastic removed and the lighter chassis and the stiffer drive shaft is quite a bit less heavy than it was when I started, and with the Reedy 16 turn and the ESC, it moves out rather smartly, for an electric. Mind you I am racing a Serpent 950R tomorrow, so it is ok for an electric. There is of course the obligatory alloy motor mount as well as the Manta Ray diff in the rear. It is of course fully ball raced inside and out. I put this car together in record time, but in all fairness it was partially done as I had planed on using this chassis on another body that I bought from a club member that failed to mention that it had extra holes drilled in it behind the headlights, and they were big. That was a shame because it was an old hot rod type body and would have looked smashing, so in disgust I tossed the entire mess in a box and forgot about it until I got blocked on both of the projects I am working on now. So that’s how it came to be and I am glad that I stocked up on hop-up parts, I found shock sets for Hornets, Frogs, and a bunch of TA0 stuff as well as Tech stuff for MO series cars including 2 4wd conversion kits, seen one lately? Me either and I have it on watch 4 different spellings. Oh well another one down and I have 3 or 4 more Martini cars to do including a Porsche that I have been neglecting for way too long! 10 pics thanks Chris, Yesssssss!