Topic: Fiat on the road with some old British cars

[gerhed]

In Clifton, Virginia

[pdxPope]

Nice!
A TC, a TD and a Spitfire.

Good company.



-JP

[faux fiddy]

Does the Fiat have the optional net to catch  parts that come flying off it?

[lordmoonpie]

Nothing wrong with modern Fiats - mine is quite nippy even! 

[faux fiddy]

Nothing wrong with modern Fiats - mine is quite nippy even! 

So I hear- and they have a large share of market and sponsor Rossi.

That's just what a friend said about his 850 or whatever it was.

[Blasbo]

Oh man!  My first car was a 71 Spider. I loved that car. Real wood steering wheel and dash. 140 mph speedometer.  THAT was way overly optimistic. Wiring that looked like 6 lbs of multi-colored spaghetti.
It was "nippy" after a pickup creamed the passenger door and the window wouldn't close. Especially in Wyoming in the winter.

[gerhed]

Does the Fiat have the optional net to catch  parts that come flying off it?

My Fiat does not have the optional net but
It does have the optional heavy duty tow bar
--kind of unusual for a 1438 c.c. machine.

[Duanob]

I used to wash cars for the local Fiat dealership when I was 17. That's when the first Fiat X 1/9 came out. The sales guys used to send me for lunch so I would pop the top on the little mid engine wedge and take the long way to McDs, usually around Alki beach. Fun stuff. It was way more fun to drive than anything America was putting out at the time.

[rangelov]

Nothing wrong with modern Fiats - mine is quite nippy even! 

I guess you can say that a Maserati is a FIAT, the same way you can say a Ferrari is a FIAT.  They are owned by FIAT, but aren't made in the same place.  I'd wager the quality differs.