1973 Fiat 124 Sport Coupe 1800
Discussion
rjg48 said:
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
To be fair she did a lot of other stuff.www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
Marianne did.
rjg48 said:
Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
Great song, written by Shel Silverstein for Dr Hook. Now playing on Youtube whilst workingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
At the age of 37, she realised she'd never drive though Paris
In a Sports Car with the warm wind in her hair
AW111 said:
P5BNij said:
PS : Moon River was my parents' favourite song, it was played at both of their funerals. For mine, I'd like Bernard Cribbins singing 'Hole In The Ground'.... 
A very good friend of mine walked down the aisle to Monty Python's "I like Chinese". Care to guess his partner's ethnicity? He also owns the 1967 FIAT 1500 that I navigate. It's fitted with a twin-cam: he has proof one was run in competition at the time. (It's now an 1800, but don't tell anybody).
It's impressive how much period factory competition tuning data is available: cam specs, carb sizes & jetting, etc.
Finland, Finland, Finland
It's where I'd quite to ... rally...
Clubman or even Clubwoman rallying was quite a thing in the 60s and 70s. Hence all the info, I suppose.
My brother and I looked into campaigning a Group N Peugeot 205 GTi in the early 90s. Basically a road car with a roll cage and a fire extinguisher system. We were told to expect £35,000 for a season, what with spare engine, spare gearbox, spare diff, wheels, tyres, fuel, oil, mechanic, support vehicle, and accommodation. We went climbing instead.
One of my old guvnors had a Merc just like that, around the same vintage too, every panel had rust on it but he kept it going for at least 250k miles.
Shameless late evening Fiat truck pic....
I'm cream crackered, time for a quick snifter and then up the apples and pears.
Edit - another quickie....
Shameless late evening Fiat truck pic....
I'm cream crackered, time for a quick snifter and then up the apples and pears.
Edit - another quickie....
Edited by P5BNij on Thursday 30th July 20:55
TR4man said:
I think it is the Fiat 850?
Definitely looks like it is based on an 850 Coupe. I loved the other photos as my Mum's 1st car was a 1967 Fiat 600L (I think) as it had the roll-back vinyl roof!
Then in 1972 Dad bought a 125 that I ended up having as my 2nd car, and a few years later I had a 132.
Then Mum had a 2 door 1971 127 followed by a 1975 1300cc 128 Estate.
But after that we started buying Fords.
A bit late for the earlier posts, but I want to go out with Pink Floyd. Ideally Great Gig in the Sky, or Comfortably Numb as a back up.
XCP said:
My wife has a photo of her standing next to her Fiat 850 coupe. Sadly this was sometime before we met!
And it was in Somerset, not Rome or Milan.
Well, Somerset is the Rome of, er... Somerset. Frankly, it always amazes me that cars are even invented in Somerset. I go there from time to time to visit a friend, a former cool urban journo chick turned gentleman farmer's wife and part time antiques dealer, whenever I feel like spending a day or two in a place where the society depicted in the Wicker Man would be classed as Metropolitan. And it was in Somerset, not Rome or Milan.
Breadvan72 said:
If he remarries, make sure the new bride is Finnish.
Finland, Finland, Finland
It's where I'd quite to ... rally...
Clubman or even Clubwoman rallying was quite a thing in the 60s and 70s. Hence all the info, I suppose.
My brother and I looked into campaigning a Group N Peugeot 205 GTi in the early 90s. Basically a road car with a roll cage and a fire extinguisher system. We were told to expect £35,000 for a season, what with spare engine, spare gearbox, spare diff, wheels, tyres, fuel, oil, mechanic, support vehicle, and accommodation. We went climbing instead.
Finland, Finland, Finland
It's where I'd quite to ... rally...
Clubman or even Clubwoman rallying was quite a thing in the 60s and 70s. Hence all the info, I suppose.
My brother and I looked into campaigning a Group N Peugeot 205 GTi in the early 90s. Basically a road car with a roll cage and a fire extinguisher system. We were told to expect £35,000 for a season, what with spare engine, spare gearbox, spare diff, wheels, tyres, fuel, oil, mechanic, support vehicle, and accommodation. We went climbing instead.
I doubt we have spent that much in total, over many years of competition (mainly club level). Then again, we only do a handful of events a year now.
Tyres are the biggest recurring cost, but running on dirt / gravel, they last quite a few events.
Accommodation during rallies is just somewhere to sleep, so we share cheap motel rooms.
It helps if do your own spannering.
Anyway, your 124 is far too nice to go hammering through bog-holes and glancing off banks.
I've just found out that Abarth made a Group 4 rally version of the 124 spider!
https://silodrome.com/fiat-abarth-124-rally/
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1251453
Breadvan72 said:
Rustastic or what...! Looks a little unloved and forlorn doesn't it.... some kind soul has nicked the factory fitted spotlamps and the roof ariel, the paint on the wings looks well flat but surprisingly it's still on its Rover 12'' Minilites, most Rover Coopers of that vintage have been barried up by now with 13'' jobbies and Carlos Fandango arches. My Mini 30 has the same 12'' Minilites but the tyres on them are pants making it very twitchy, plan was to go back down to 10'' wheels but it's going asap now (I've never really liked the look of 12'' or 13'' wheels on a Mini anyway).Look out, incoming old Fiat stuff....
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