Do you have that one friend that has been working on their car forever, yet it never seems to be progressing? That’s my friend Paul and his Lancia Scorpion. It’s a neat little car (and I emphasize “little”). They are somewhat rare in the United States and are the car that the Lancia 037 was “based on”. That’s not entirely accurate…the 037 was Frankenstein with Lancia executives claiming it shared body panels. Whatever, we aren’t buying it, but that’s a discussion for another day.

The Scorpion is known elsewhere by it’s original name, the Montecarlo, and this particular black terror is how a Lancia should sound: highly strung and surprisingly temperamental. The company may be just a second ahead of death now, but in the 1970s and 1980s, Lancia knew how to make turbochargers and superchargers dance in unison on a four-banger. You know the Integrale and the 037, now see what a wicked-up Montecarlo could do with the right setup. This little beast just flat barks!