What Produce You Lot When You Lot Discovery Old, Abandoned Equipment? Brand Novel Auto Parts, Of Course

What make you lot when you lot honor equipment abandoned at 1 of your factories? Sell them? Dismantle them? For Fiat Chrysler, they saw this every bit an chance to brand lemonade out of lemons.

Known to a greater extent than for making surgical physical care for parts too aftermarket accessories for Jeep too Dodge vehicles, MOPAR through FCA Heritage volition shortly start offering heritage parts dedicated to its classic cars thank you lot to the tracing of master copy equipment.

The get-go to make goodness from all this? One of the nearly iconic hatchbacks—the Lancia Delta Integrale too Integrale Evoluzione.

Unlike alternative options, which include using rarely-available master copy parts or fiberglass copies, the heritage parts arrive at uses the master copy materials to make Lancia Delta Integrale front end too parent bumpers.

The bumpers are created through the role of iv pieces of master copy equipment that were institute abandoned at the San Benigno plant. Having undertaken extensive maintenance to banking concern jibe all moving parts too electrical too hydraulic circuits, the equipment is similar a shot used every bit the measure molding physical care for for the bumpers.

The physical care for starts alongside a plastic granulate, which is injected at heat through the presses into the cavity of the give-up the ghost to make the parts.

The Lancia Delta Integrale bumpers are created using a polymer thermoplastic (POCAN S1506) which is non-reinforced alongside improved comport upon strength. It offers a high oestrus resistance, strength too hardness, depression susceptibility to stress keen too depression wet absorption.

For the Delta Integrale Evoluzione version, the bumpers role a dissimilar type of polymer thermoplastic (Xenoy CL101), which has first-class solvent resistance too is extremely malleable fifty-fifty at low-temperatures. It every bit good has a proven rails tape inwards off-line outside pigment applications.

All parts are street legal too tin live purchased through MOPAR’s e-store or fifty-fifty through closed to FCA retailers inwards Europe. If you lot tumble out to ain a Lancia Delta Integrale, these “Lancia Classiche” parts don’t come upwards cheap. They’re priced at £ 1,170 ( P 79,000) for the front end bumper too £1,035 for the parent ( P 70,000).