My funny Fiat Barchetta
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That's quite a rare colour as I have only seen a couple of cars in that blue.
Note from your pic that when Barchettas gather it appears that they have a huge variety in wheel styles ,both OEM and
aftermarket.
At Auto Italia this year ,also at Brooklands, I'm not sure there was 2 cars with the same wheels ,out of the dozen or so that attended....
Note from your pic that when Barchettas gather it appears that they have a huge variety in wheel styles ,both OEM and
aftermarket.
At Auto Italia this year ,also at Brooklands, I'm not sure there was 2 cars with the same wheels ,out of the dozen or so that attended....
lucido grigio said:
That's quite a rare colour as I have only seen a couple of cars in that blue.
Note from your pic that when Barchettas gather it appears that they have a huge variety in wheel styles ,both OEM and aftermarket.
They're the OEM steel wheels. They can rust easily and look a bit scabby so are often replaced with after-market alloys. We did this, and I regretted it as the alloys didn't really suit the car as well. Note from your pic that when Barchettas gather it appears that they have a huge variety in wheel styles ,both OEM and aftermarket.
lucido grigio said:
Finish off today with a pic of how the car looked after driving through the night in July through Sweden.....2014
Luckily it rained very hard before getting back to Calais ,saving me the effort of washing/scraping that lot off......
You pretty far north I seem to remember? It gets worse insect-wise the further up the country you travel. Luckily it rained very hard before getting back to Calais ,saving me the effort of washing/scraping that lot off......
Great thread.
PowerslideSWE said:
You pretty far north I seem to remember? It gets worse insect-wise the further up the country you travel.
Great thread.
That pic from 2014 was when I cut it short due to back pain,so didn't go way up north,which I did do year after,right up to arctic circle in Finland.Great thread.
The fly pic was whilst driving from central Sweden area back to the bridge overnight,still with the top down.
lucido grigio said:
That pic from 2014 was when I cut it short due to back pain,so didn't go way up north,which I did do year after,right up to arctic circle in Finland.
The fly pic was whilst driving from central Sweden area back to the bridge overnight,still with the top down.
Thats the way to do it when in a roadster. The fly pic was whilst driving from central Sweden area back to the bridge overnight,still with the top down.
Sweden occasionally has good weather for that kind of trips, so far this year it has been like this. Rain, sun, windy, rinse and repeat over and over again..
2015 trip was much like that.
Day 1 drove from Calais all the way to just over Danish border ,rain in Germany was biblical.
Next morning ,nice but the hood was up n down a few times that day as I progressed north,east,then north east,as far as Odeshog for a paid camp site .
After that it was nice I think for the rest of the 2 weeks.
I had to put the hood up also every time I stopped for food as those insects love a tourist.
Day 1 drove from Calais all the way to just over Danish border ,rain in Germany was biblical.
Next morning ,nice but the hood was up n down a few times that day as I progressed north,east,then north east,as far as Odeshog for a paid camp site .
After that it was nice I think for the rest of the 2 weeks.
I had to put the hood up also every time I stopped for food as those insects love a tourist.
Only just found this, amazing thread! My wife has a Silver 2000 Barchetta Riviera with the third brake light, sun ray wheels and pleated red leather upholstery, we bought it in 2011 and it now has about 125k kms, she adores it! Apart from the normal service stuff the only replacements have been a starter motor and the heat shield over the exhaust manifold, it has only let us down once when it sulked for two days with the injection warning light on, then it suddenly decided to behave again, never found out what that was. Great little car, comfy, handles well and the neatest hood I've ever come across, always down by the way. One question, how to cure that bag-o-nails variator on start up.............
Annual anniversary update.
5 years ago today I picked up this great little Fiat.
Until November this year I literally hadn't spent 1p on repairs as nothing has gone wrong ,on a 20yo car.
It failed the MOT though on floor rot ,in 3 separate places and firstly I was going to park it up and repair my 2008 Fiesta to use again.
Repairs to the Ford didn't go well so I got a quote for the welding and went ahead to get it MOTed and roadworthy.
Mileage this year will only be about 6000 miles ,the lowest I've done so far out of the 46,000+ I've put on it.
I'll just repeat what I've said before.
This is the best car I have owned !
5 years ago today I picked up this great little Fiat.
Until November this year I literally hadn't spent 1p on repairs as nothing has gone wrong ,on a 20yo car.
It failed the MOT though on floor rot ,in 3 separate places and firstly I was going to park it up and repair my 2008 Fiesta to use again.
Repairs to the Ford didn't go well so I got a quote for the welding and went ahead to get it MOTed and roadworthy.
Mileage this year will only be about 6000 miles ,the lowest I've done so far out of the 46,000+ I've put on it.
I'll just repeat what I've said before.
This is the best car I have owned !
Iva Barchetta said:
For those who enjoyed my 2016 condensed road trip pics, take a look at my 2013 Italy trip
here.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Bloody Photobucket!here.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
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