Are your classics from your era?

[Rob 131 Sport]

ian2144 said:

aeropilot said:

ian2144 said:

The one car that escaped me was the Fiat 131 Sport especially in Orange........ finding one now has got to be like finding the Holy Grail.

There might not be any left in the UK!

Not even listed on How Many Left, and although that's not 100% reliable a source, its still not a good indicator that there are going to be that many that might still be sitting in a dry garage/barn for past 30+ years that have dropped off the DVLA computer radar!

Sadly the dreaded tin worm killed most of them off.... not seen one for sale in years, although there was LHD one knocking about in Ireland a while back.

There out there in the UK and of course Europe, but mainly in LHD form. Probably one of the few classics you could buy and not be disappointed with the drive. I had one (Orange of course) back in 90-91 and would dearly love another. However circa £20k is out of my league.

[348jeff]

DBSV8 said:

... The dash borad lit up like a christmas tree ......Then smoke or something started to come out of the bonnet ...and there was a sort of craunching noise ......MIL said it sounded like there was a squirrel trapped under the bonnet !!

Is your MIL a master mechanic? Her diagnosis is spot on? I've had a squirrel under the bonnet and the symptoms were the same! LOL Cost me nearly £800 to get fixed :-(


He decided to use my cooling fan as a nice cosy place to hang out...jammed the fan burning the motor out and damaging the electrics....overheated the car blowing the head gasket...which in turn damaged my turbo.



One bone dry, stiff as a board, folded in 2 squirrel!!!

[sortedcossie]

I was born in Sept 1978, passed my test 2nd Jan 1996.

Have owned this for close to 15 years, registered 9th Feb 1996 - one of the last 150 manufactured, basically been on the road the same number of years as me pretty much