Fiat Tipo. What’s it worth?

[105.4]

Afternoon all.

I’ve been offered a tidy, 2 owner, 100% original, 115’000 mile, rust free Fiat Tipo 1.7D.

It almost seems too good to break for parts, but it would make a decent temporary stop-gap motor for the Wife for a couple of months. The thing is, I don’t want to be stuck with it, (we have 8 cars and counting), nor do I have the time for another project.

So the question is, what’s it worth?

Thanks in advance

[Brinyan]

Quite a forgotten car to most people, as always one that flew under the radar.
A guy I know has 3 of them, all in different states of roadworthy-ness.
Difficult to value something so obscure - don’t imagine there’d be a queue of people wanting to buy it, but got to be about £1200/£1400……..possibly?

[Dr Interceptor]

I think pretty much anything that is reliable with an MOT is £1000 at the minute.

If you manage to find a Fiat perv who wants one, you might squeeze £1500?

But I'm guessing - I'll be honest.

[105.4]

Thankfully both of your figures are well below the price the guy is asking for it.

The only downside is that many of the service parts, (cambelt kit, water pump etc), seem obsolete, although I confess to not digging too deeply around the internet.

@ Dr Interceptor & Brinyan, thanks for your replies.

[Julian Thompson]

Clicked on this hoping to see the wonderful rear “Sedicivalvole” script. Sadly not!

[centralscot]

When i saw the title of the post,i was interested as i have had around a dozen tipo's,then i saw it was the least desirable model,then i saw the indication of the price, it would need to be really really nice to be worth much more than £1000.

[105.4]

centralscot said:

When i saw the title of the post,i was interested as i have had around a dozen tipo's,then i saw it was the least desirable model,then i saw the indication of the price, it would need to be really really nice to be worth much more than £1000.

Least desirable? Probably so, but it is two owner, very solid and IMO, too good to break.

I did have the idea of building it up into a 16v, but so many parts seem almost impossible to find.

Anyway, here’s a pic of it this morning outside of work.

[Dr Interceptor]

My deputy head had one when I was at secondary School... I think it was a 'Fazza' edition, or something like that. Reg was K*** VPA,

[sunbeam alpine]

105.4 said:

Least desirable? Probably so, but it is two owner, very solid and IMO, too good to break.

I did have the idea of building it up into a 16v, but so many parts seem almost impossible to find.

Anyway, here’s a pic of it this morning outside of work.

Sorry, but

[105.4]

sunbeam alpine said:

Sorry, but

Each to their own of course, but I think it’s probably worth triple what the guy is asking for it in parts alone.

[centralscot]

Crack on then,but good luck with that course of action.

[Rockets7]

I seem to recall pricing a back box up for one of these recently and it was about £300!

[Jag_NE]

With a 12 month ticket any diesel would click 1 grand.

[wibble cb]

Fugly is the word for that, it hasn’t aged well.

[V1nce Fox]

Oddly, i don’t hate that. Reminds me a little of an old citroen zxtd i used to own.

[105.4]

centralscot said:

Crack on then,but good luck with that course of action.

Do they not break well?

I’d have thought straight, rust free panels, trim bits, headlights etc would have been well sought after?

[Monkeylegend]

105.4 said:

Thankfully both of your figures are well below the price the guy is asking for it.

The only downside is that many of the service parts, (cambelt kit, water pump etc), seem obsolete, although I confess to not digging too deeply around the internet.

@ Dr Interceptor & Brinyan, thanks for your replies.

What price is he asking then?

[InitialDave]

I'd put the question to the Fiat club, or somewhere like Fiat Forum.

To me, it's worth maybe a grand.

To a real fan of them, maybe it's worth a chunk more. My guess is not, but you never know.

[105.4]

Monkeylegend said:

What price is he asking then?

It’s due it’s MOT next month. With 12 months ticket he’s after £450.
There’s an exhaust leak, (centre-ish section I’d guess), so it won’t pass without repairing or replacing some of the exhaust.

I’d hope to get it for £300-£350 with no MOT on it.

[Monkeylegend]

105.4 said:

Monkeylegend said:

What price is he asking then?

It’s due it’s MOT next month. With 12 months ticket he’s after £450.
There’s an exhaust leak, (centre-ish section I’d guess), so it won’t pass without repairing or replacing some of the exhaust.

I’d hope to get it for £300-£350 with no MOT on it.

I am a bit confused, earlier you said the £k estimates were well below what the guy was asking, I assume you mean above.

The last car I scrapped last year went for £220 so getting it for £300 seems ok, even better with an MOT.