Piece on Lancia collector from the NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/autom … odayspaper

"OF all the tools at his disposal, Jaan Hjorth reserves special affection for a 1942 Monarch model EE lathe. The behemoth device, a mad array of levers, dials and hardened cutters, is so versatile that Mr. Hjorth calls it “the tool that can make itself.”

More to the point, it can whittle a clamp for the ignition coil of a 1958 Lancia Appia, mill a tiny cam for the door lock of a ’65 Lancia Fulvia, or, as needed on a recent afternoon, bore a hole in the tip of a plunger assembly from the thermostatic actuator of an Alfa Romeo fuel-injection system."