1973 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe 1800

[P5BNij]

[CharlesdeGaulle]

In a coincidental quirk, I find myself in Tisbury today visiting my ex wife, and this was parked on double yellows outside the fishmonger.



The chap said he'd owned it since his 20s, but since restoration he drives about 50 miles a year, which seems a pity.

[Deefor62]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

In a coincidental quirk, I find myself in Tisbury today visiting my ex wife, and this was parked on double yellows outside the fishmonger.



The chap said he'd owned it since his 20s, but since restoration he drives about 50 miles a year, which seems a pity.

That looks lovely. I’m not convinced it’s a genuine HF though. Wheel arches are too flush, front end doesn’t appear to have the wider track and negative camber of the HF and the wheels sit more as though they are the 5.5j alloys from an HF2000 rather than the 6 inch alloys of the Fulvia HF. Looks like it has the correct seats though.

[anonymous-user]

I have been reading up on the 1960s to 1980s Fiats, and also on the rallying and other motorsport of those decades. This has led me off to reading about various rally drivers of that era. I thought that I knew a bit about 70s motorsport, but I realise that I really only knew a bit about 70s Formula 1. This means that until this morning I had never heard of Michele Mouton, who only narrowly missed becoming World Rally Champion in a year when the eventual winner was Walter Roehlr. My bad!

Fiat connection: not much, but she did drive for Fiat France for a while. She was evidently a hugely talented driver, and it's a real shame that since her day it seems that few other women drivers have been able to get good team drives in rallying. Motorsport is still so blokey.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 11th July 07:40

[anonymous-user]

I recall that in London in the 1980s a lot of Audi Quattros and Audi Coupes were being driven around very fast by cool looking women, but the cars didn't all look like this Mouton one -



Apparently, Mouton did not much like the Fiat 131 Abarth rally car, but she still managed to do well in it. Here she is at Monte Carlo -

[anonymous-user]

Back on thread, Mark the mobile mech offered to come over from Worcestershire this morning to look at a hot starting issue on my Series 3 Land Rover, and while he's there he will give the Fiat a quick check and see if he can diagnose the idling and rough running issue. We have agreed that I will get a local generic old car garage* to do the clutch on my Lancia because that is a grotty job for one man to do on a gravel driveway.


*The sort of place that looks after ten year old moderns, but where the garage owners know and like classic cars and have seen a carburettor and a set of points before

[anonymous-user]

1970s MY SMALL FIAT IS MORE INDESTRUCTIBLE THAN A VOLVO 144 DRIVEN BY CAPTAIN SCARLET SO THERE adverts.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fd_GvL_Wk&fe...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzxuxKQv-8

[anonymous-user]

Also...

Hey you! Yes, you! Vin Diesel! You know what? You can basically FRO.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcMhm7X7BBA

[Big_Dog]

I had one of those 1800s in a midnight blue with cream. Adored it. Back when I could buy parts for it from Maranellos in Egham. There was a trick of advancing the cam timing a couple of degrees to give it a bit more go. A bit too far and it would refuse to idle nicely. The bottom end on the 1800 was a 132 on Maranellos microfiche.

[gforceg]

Breadvan72 said:

1970s MY SMALL FIAT IS MORE INDESTRUCTIBLE THAN A VOLVO 144 DRIVEN BY CAPTAIN SCARLET SO THERE adverts.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fd_GvL_Wk&fe...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzxuxKQv-8

Holy st! That's from when car ads were car ads.

[anonymous-user]

Launching the 124 Berlina -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dulB5nlKYCk

This one is beautifully filmed.

[anonymous-user]

Dang! I bought the wrong 124. If I had bought a Berlina I would have been able to pull 1970s Italian Jenny Agutter wearing riding clothes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLBynEZcjs

[Anonymous-poster]

P5B thanks for posting this pic,
It’s the exact car my father had and I am sure it will bring back memories!

[rjg48]

Steel wheels rather than trims, just like my second car. Bought in the late 80s.

[Anonymous-poster]

My first car was a Fiat 127 sport and it cost me new I think £2700 back in 1982.

[AW111]

Shame on you for not knowing about Michelle Mouton.
I admit to following her progress back when - was gutted when she missed out on the WC.

FIAT rallying:
The 1968 FIAT 1500 I have navigated for the last decade or so is a re-shell: the original first competed in 1974.
It got much love from a pair of Russians a while back: in it's coat of Lada blue, it reminded them of home.

They're a bit far from you, but here are a few sporting FIATs from our local tuner:




http://www.bitsofitaly.com/race---rally-cars

Edited by AW111 on Saturday 11th July 11:21

[rjg48]

For sale in Shropshire.

[anonymous-user]

I gotza get me some dem hubcabs for the Cromos.

[anonymous-user]

Marco, mehanico marvelloso e mobile, is on site right now, and he says

The issue does look to be one of carburation and - guess what? - someone has taken off the Weber 34 DMS, and fitted some sort of Solex, that needs a repair (or replacement by a Weber). Marco is right now checking the timing as well.

I would take pics of the work in progress, but I am in London eating pasta, and the car is in Oxfordshire.

[citizensm1th]

not cheep

https://www.webcon.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=828