go for it goobs, it sounds like a fun project. post up more details when you can, and pics too, i restored my car from a rally wreck, and its great to see the finished product after many many hours of hard work.
As long as it isn't too lacey or frilly I'd say it is worth a go. They certainly have a cute factor of 100+, especially the early ones with suicide doors. At least then you'd have a car that I may have a chance of passing on a straight open road!
there is a 308gt4 going under the hammer this saturday at universal motor auctions and a 40km 348 www.universalmotorauctions.com.au
would love to but with the house renovations i'm just not in a position at the moment. and i'm at Mallala thrashing the RENSC coupe all day saturday. hoping to start looking seriously for a GT4 later in the year. i'll be interested to hear what it goes for though. anyone know the car?
the car is complete but a full restoration is needed and the starting price is $6000, which is way too high, it is still a fiat not a ferrari
seeing there is 10k to spend i would have thought 2.5k is a good starting point, cos i cant see it being worth 16k at the end
Wow, sounds like a bit of an opportunistic seller. For $6K I'd expect one that is clean and tidy that doesn't require an awful lot of work.
I am disappointed there is "no postage" on this item. Would look nice all bubblewrapped and inside a PostPak
Can you get Ceramic Carbon drums?? The brakes on the 500 look like the size of kiwi shoe polish tins....
on second thoughts, kiwi shoe polish tins would work better, as long as they are not the black ones. Those would absorb too much heat.
actually from what i can tell from the market over the last few years that's about right. my mech mentioned to me that he's seeing a lot of fiat prices rise lately (even X1/9s are worth nearly double what they were 2-3 years ago, so they're about $30 bucks now ) but bambinos are going nuts. a year ago my mech reckoned he'd pay $10k (i think that's what he said...) for one that still needed heaps of werk. of course fixing it would cost him bugger all...
I have a fiat 500 Bambina not a Bambino RHD from Australia. Does anyone know what kind of motor is inside of this 500?? http://members.lycos.nl/joerifiles/twincam%20fiat%20500.JPG
hmm doesn't ring a bell. Are you saying this is from a varient of the fiat 124? How did he make it fit in there? Could the motor possibly be one of the pics in this link? http://www.restauro-abarth.it/Pagine/NostriLavori/homeLavori.htm
looks more like 131 i guess. the flat top cam-towers are distinctly abarth-like. i'll dig up some pics later, but if you look for 131 abarth you should find something that looks similar.
