Let's see your Fiats!

[CharliesTTS]

Just bought this for the wife

[P5BNij]

AW111 said:

It's not mine, but I'm the navigator:



Slowly being rebuilt (again).

Lovely, just lovely. There's a RHD one for sale on ebay at the moment, looks a bargain...

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1647530

My newly acquired Abarth 595 not long after picking it up...

[Pereldh]

montydog said:

Ooooh congrats..

[GTRene]

not mine but si cute this Fiat Autobianchi Giardiniera 1976 I thought it would be older.











https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1723579

[wilksy61]

Here's a picture of my brace of Fiats, the Barchetta is a 1999 year with 5000 miles and the 695 Biposto is a year 2016 with 4000 miles.

[GTRene]

> Barchetta is a 1999 year with 5000 miles<

wow, pretty rare with such low miles I guess :-)

[montydog]

Here's mine

[Nigel_O]

I swore blind I wouldn't let another Fiat get under my skin, after spending WAY too much money on my Fiat Coupe.

I sold the Coupe in September '21 and replaced it with another mid-life crisis - a nice, sensible V8 Vantage.

However, I quickly realised that using the Aston for town journeys all year round was silly, so I decided to scratch an itch I've had for ages, and bought the cheapest Panda 4x4 I could find. It was scruffy. Scratches everywhere, both bumpers cracked, Interior was mucky and it was just generally unloved. However, the engine was strong (as 1.2 petrol Fiats go...) and there was very little rust underneath. After spending a few quid on the mechanicals, it was exactly what I needed - a reliable little runaround that I wasn't bothered if it got mucky or scratched.

It cleaned up fairly well



Got used to carry two 20kg eBikes to Bike Park Wales (aerodynamics made it pretty slow and 40kg on the roof made the handling 'interesting'...)



Took it off road a bit - this was at about 2,000 feet altitude in mid-Wales



Found some rust:



Had the rust fixed:



Got irritated with the soft & saggy standard seats:



Fitted some Abarth 500 seats:



I've probably spent 1.5 - 2x as much on it as i paid for it and it still looks like a scruffy, knackered old Fiat, but for the first time in many, many years, I can use a car as a tool and not worry if it gets filthy, scratched or dented.

[GTRene]

good updates, it needed some TLC and you gave it to it, also 4x4 more interesting then the FWD of that type.