Still own my first car... and it'll be my last as well! FIAT rules!
Last one from about 20 of the R4 that seemed to turn up on all the photos for VW!! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Man o man; Viva La France' ! My first was a $50 EK Holden "the rings had gone"; in reg drove away fixed the accelerator pedal with an okky strap, she would pull past 90mph. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Had one for a couple of years - outstanding car, the best of all the 105 series Alfas owned. Handled better than the GTV, IMO.
I thought it was the ducks guts when I bought it in 1981, paid $500 ( needed a new clutch ). Amazing price for a good handling sedan that had twin webbers, alloy twin cam engine, 5 speed gearbox, 4 wheel discs and a great exhaust note. I bought it from the original owner, always a Canberra car, sold new by Gulson's. It's to blame for my obsession with Italian cars. M
Through the pinch at the top of Jacobs Ladder Ben Lomond Tas. 1970 fiat 125s. This little biscuit tin changed my life; set a high vehicular standard, drove through any situation, revved like mad, pulled like a schoolboy, drove equally well fowards, backwards or sideways, ashtray/lighter for driver & every passanger and most importantly perfect for L knee only hands free contol. Fantastic lights & better brakes. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I've had several FIATs, 124 sedan (1100 motor, 2x124sports, 1400+1600) plus the grandaddy of them all the 2300S, they are better and faster cars cc for cc than ALFAs, handle brilliantly and will rev at max revs all day without issue and have better gearboxes than Ferraris Brakes on the 124s were great for their day
stupidity and desire to die broke I would really like an 8V FIAT or one of the turbine cars ................. also might need this man to drive them as I'm not good at driving FEOHOS Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Pardon? This statement is based on your experience with how many Ferrari gearbox designs? It's easy to make a slick-shifting light gearbox to handle a 100hp engine in a Fiat, quite another to cope reliably with 250hp then package it into a cramped east-west installation in a 308. As power goes up, you need heavier shafts and thicker gears, more weight equals more inertia, hence more effort required. A properly warmed through Ferrari gearbox of any vintage will change gear fast and accurately and last a long time if treated properly. nb. with the notable exception of the under-engineered transaxles in some later post-FIAT MEOHOS Ferraris.
330, 365, 412, 308, 328, 348 (this car was rooted) While good gearboxes they were not as good as the one in my 2300S, I rebuilt the 2300S gearbox only because I was doing a full resto on the car and all I really did was replace the synchros in the box. Now I drive my 308 fiat a LOT as you know but even after a full day of driving the QV or GT4 I could get into the 2300S and the box was smoother and faster than any of the Ferrari gearboxes I have driven. I take you point though, the 2300S only had 150HP but there is no reason for the clunky and stiff actions of the 308 gearbox from cold, and I use the Redline oil to help it as much as I can with 2x1500 DOHC fiat engines jammed together I'm not that brave if you like driving buckets
