Let's see your Fiats!

[Roboticarm]

His and hers at our place
2012 1.2 pop and a 2019 595 turismo

[rlg43p]

wilson70 said:

Here is my 128 familiare

Looks great. I have had a few Fiat 128s but in the dim and distant past. I have often wondered how they would feel to drive today - how do you find it?

[tumble dryer]

wilson70 said:

Here is my 128 familiare

Bloody hell, I had one of those.

Took me and my brand new Mrs (honeymoon) from Glasgow to Genoa to spend time with my sister up in the hills.

Got 6 miles out of town and the fan belt snapped. 3 hours later when the mechanic went for a pee I got the new belt on. Drove like a maniac to catch the boat at Hull. Last car on.

I nearly killed myself once when I pulled out the accelerator lock. (FYI a device that looked exactly like a choke-pull but which was directly connected to the accelerator cable at the carburettor.) when I misjudged the, now locked-in previously anticipated maximum, of that long left hand sweeper on the dual carriageway on the way home from the not yet Mrs TD.

One of my first moments of genuine high speed fear fumbling below the dashboard trying to find that fking 'pull' to push back in.

Happy memories. Thanks.

[wilson70]

rlg43p said:

Looks great. I have had a few Fiat 128s but in the dim and distant past. I have often wondered how they would feel to drive today - how do you find it?

Hello, 128s are great cars to drive, light and responsive, not fast though. I have put a 5 speed gearbox in it, this helps keeping up with modern traffic .

[wilson70]

tumble dryer said:

Bloody hell, I had one of those.

Took me and my brand new Mrs (honeymoon) from Glasgow to Genoa to spend time with my sister up in the hills.

Got 6 miles out of town and the fan belt snapped. 3 hours later when the mechanic went for a pee I got the new belt on. Drove like a maniac to catch the boat at Hull. Last car on.

I nearly killed myself once when I pulled out the accelerator lock. (FYI a device that looked exactly like a choke-pull but which was directly connected to the accelerator cable at the carburettor.) when I misjudged the, now locked-in previously anticipated maximum, of that long left hand sweeper on the dual carriageway on the way home from the not yet Mrs TD.

One of my first moments of genuine high speed fear fumbling below the dashboard trying to find that fking 'pull' to push back in.

Happy memories. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing that was great, needless to say I rarely use the hand throttle,
cheers.

[The Prof]

[The Prof]

Happy easter ......

Edited by The Prof on Monday 13th April 15:04

[GTRene]

love those fiat 131 abarth (also replicas)

[Liquid Knight]

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1219334

Due to the zero hour nature of my job and being off work due to Covid19 she's for sale now.

[Pereldh]

Just washed him off today.
Such a great fun car to drive!


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[lb3nson]

My pair of Fiats:

[AC43]

I bought this for my OH for London shuttle duties in September last year. Very happy to have something Italian and fun on the drive after a break of several decades. It's only a 1.2 but I don't mind as it's all speedbumps an 20mph zones here. And I wanted bomb-proof mechanicals and low running costs.

Once PH had helped my wife narrow her search down to a facelift Lounge in Grey or Epic Blue I set up some searches and waited. This one came up and I grabbed it - 5 years old at the time, 15k miles, leather (very unusual), opening sunroof (ditto) and the audio upgrade which meant TomTom & Nav. It came with new discs & new front tyres and had had the cambelt done.

10 months on and still love it. It's a perfect city car (narrow, short, light). Surprising good on the open road, if pretty slow. Not that that matters as I've got an E Class estate for that stuff.

[2172cc]

My dad next to the first brand new car he bought in 1978, a 131 1600. He was so disappointed to watch it slowly disappear over the next few years

[AC43]

2172cc said:

My dad next to the first brand new car he bought in 1978, a 131 1600. He was so disappointed to watch it slowly disappear over the next few years

A mate of mine started with that exact same car. I think he bought a 78 in about 1982. He couldn't resist dropping a 2.0 twin cam in and doing various other mods. He wrote that one off heavily and then repeated the whole process with a later facelift one.

As I've posted elsewhere, the vast majority of my mates were into their Fiat's Lancia's & Alfas at the time.

[centralscot]

A series 1 131 was my first car,not a new 1600s like your dad's though,mine was a tatty with no brakes 1300 basic R reg it was 11 years old and cost £54 in 1988.

It was the first of many,i love them.

[GTRene]

2172cc said:

My dad next to the first brand new car he bought in 1978, a 131 1600. He was so disappointed to watch it slowly disappear over the next few years

great picture, I first thought it was Jean Todt with a Fiat 131 200TC racing :-)

here a old talbot picture with Jean Todt.

[GTRene]

here the 3 Fiat Ritmo 130TC Abarth cars I've owned, a Red a Grey and a Black one.

picture from a picture under plastic... I was to lazy to get them all further out

[2172cc]

GTRene said:

2172cc said:

My dad next to the first brand new car he bought in 1978, a 131 1600. He was so disappointed to watch it slowly disappear over the next few years

great picture, I first thought it was Jean Todt with a Fiat 131 200TC racing :-)

here a old talbot picture with Jean Todt.

Never thought that before, but now you mention it...............

[Dunk130TC]

New fleet line up covering three decades of Turin loveliness:
1961 600D with a 903cc upgrade
1975 124
1985 130TC

[Rob 131 Sport]

2172cc said:

My dad next to the first brand new car he bought in 1978, a 131 1600. He was so disappointed to watch it slowly disappear over the next few years

The Fiat 131 was a truly great car and I owned a 131 Sport (when it was 10 years old). They did however need to be regularly rust proofed