RE: SEAT 124 DLS: PH Carpool

RE: SEAT 124 DLS: PH Carpool

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keefr22

102 posts

198 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Sampaio said:
I honestly cannot understand why someone would go into such effort and detail to restore a car like this, spending lots just to end up with a car that can barely be driven and will never be sold again.
I honestly can't understand how anyone 'into' cars can't understand why someone would...!!

dbdb

4,311 posts

172 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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keefr22 said:
Sampaio said:
I honestly cannot understand why someone would go into such effort and detail to restore a car like this, spending lots just to end up with a car that can barely be driven and will never be sold again.
I honestly can't understand how anyone 'into' cars can't understand why someone would...!!
+1 - I'm also baffled as to why Sampaio is baffled!

Mound Dawg

1,915 posts

173 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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dbdb said:
keefr22 said:
Sampaio said:
I honestly cannot understand why someone would go into such effort and detail to restore a car like this, spending lots just to end up with a car that can barely be driven and will never be sold again.
I honestly can't understand how anyone 'into' cars can't understand why someone would...!!
+1 - I'm also baffled as to why Sampaio is baffled!
Yeah, me too.

Anyhow, I think that this is a splendid effort and it gets a proper hats off from me. But then I'm biased, I used to have a 125 myself

FWIW, there's another Fiat 124 thread here-

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Lowtimer

4,286 posts

167 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Sampaio said:
I honestly cannot understand why someone would go into such effort and detail to restore a car like this, spending lots just to end up with a car that can barely be driven and will never be sold again.
Because they like it, and no other reason matters.

Why do you think it can barely be driven, by the way?

chelme

1,353 posts

169 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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I like it. When I lived in Cyprus in the 80s and 90s, I would see a lot of these (reproduced for the Turkish market along side the Fiat 131).

Doesn't this have one of the most successful, if not the most successful twin cam four by Lampredi? Does not sound as multi layered as the Alfa Twin Cam (Nord) but if my guess is correct, its success more than compensates... A legendary engine in a great little three box...

Edited by chelme on Monday 20th October 22:05

Jakarta

566 posts

141 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Obvious Troll is obvious

Kolbenkopp

2,343 posts

150 months

Monday 20th October 2014
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Really, really like that. Congrats to the OP. Well done!

Reardy Mister

13,757 posts

221 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Built, not bought.

Love it.

motoloco

31 posts

164 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Thanks for this pic; my first car (about 100 years ago) was a 124 Special T in hearing aid beige (KPB 477K, although I guess it has long since gone to the scrapper in the sky).
That started a string of 124 Coupes and Spyders through the 70s/80s; my brother still has a genuine 124 Abarth Spyder. All brilliant cars from the time when FIAT made interesting cars of all sizes.
pixelpimp said:
Time to drag out a pic of my Fiat 124 Special T rally project:

And of course what it will look like when finished:

Cool cars and so rare now.

dinkel

26,886 posts

257 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Classic FIAT I bumped into over the years:






Not too many so they must be rare.

Neil_M

694 posts

183 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Sampaio said:
I honestly cannot understand why someone would go into such effort and detail to restore a car like this, spending lots just to end up with a car that can barely be driven and will never be sold again.
It's a case of spending your efforts on something you are into... In this case it was a car that the person was a fan of, bought it, seen it can be improved and went from there. It's the passion behind the hobby.

It's not a case of being better or faster than anyone else, its for a love of the car / hobby.

keefr22

102 posts

198 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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Neil_M said:
It's a case of spending your efforts on something you are into... In this case it was a car that the person was a fan of, bought it, seen it can be improved and went from there. It's the passion behind the hobby.

It's not a case of being better or faster than anyone else, its for a love of the car / hobby.
Excellent sum up...!!

Kipplemaster

69 posts

206 months

Tuesday 21st October 2014
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I absolutely love that. It's clearly all in the detail, as I am much less keen on all the other variants of the same basic body shell in the thread, including the Top Gear Lotus LADA.

SKiwi

31 posts

148 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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dinkel said:
Classic FIAT I bumped into over the years:






Not too many so they must be rare.
Snap to the 124 AC - My son & I had a '69 some years back with a 2.0l in it - body was a bit past it but she was a ton of fun ! There is a strong following for Fiat here in Oz & some people went nuts with turbos etc on the twin cams. They are a great free-breathing engine which will go to around 150hp without resorting to popping on the 16 valve head from a Delta or turbo. Guy Croft was the guru & built many a mighty engine !

SKiwi

31 posts

148 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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dinkel said:
Classic FIAT I bumped into over the years:






Not too many so they must be rare.
Snap to the 124 AC - My son & I had a '69 some years back with a 2.0l in it - body was a bit past it but she was a ton of fun ! There is a strong following for Fiat here in Oz & some people went nuts with turbos etc on the twin cams. They are a great free-breathing engine which will go to around 150hp without resorting to popping on the 16 valve head from a Delta or turbo. Guy Croft was the guru & built many a mighty engine !

choubaka

6 posts

113 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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The father of a friend of mine when I was young has a Seat 124 with a 131 Racing engine or so he said.

Never knew if that was true but it sounded great.

dinkel

26,886 posts

257 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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131 Alitalia yum:

The Mirafiori shared the Lampredi DOHC with lancia didn't it?

dinkel

26,886 posts

257 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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alfaandomega

60 posts

154 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2014
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Don't think anyone has mentioned (or maybe everyone has chosen to forget....) the related Fiat 125/Lada 1500/Polski Fiat 125p (the latter rebadged FSO and which then morphed into the awful Polonez.)

Super job by the guy whose car is the subject of this article - will be a real Q-car: I love cars like this which are more go than show !

Whiters

364 posts

238 months

Monday 27th October 2014
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I love this. Saw many of these on the road when I lived in the Canaries in the very early 90s. I now need to resist spending the rest of the afternoon working out how much it would cost to get a decent one into the country! There's so much you could do with them.

For some time now, I've had an incredible itch for a rorty, rear drive, 70s, four-pot saloon. But I have a lot of other itches too, so maybe I just need a cream instead.

This itch strikes me as relatively affordable though... scratchchin