"If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:49 pm

I'm not really smart

but I hate to say This but it a fiat, It looks like one? Its says it a fiat, so I guess mr brad, it a fiat regardless what he has done to it, you can disguise a dog, but it will still bark ( like a dog

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 5:54 pm

It cracks me up how people cry over some one else car, I am about to make a big change in a 69

save it,buy it from me

georgeramos · Post by **georgeramos** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:06 pm

What are you gonna do to it Jim? Isn't it the Beek car? With that amazing motor seems like you're going in the right direction...

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:13 pm

I sure am,
I'm pretty sure beek will drive it when he is done, if he don't,there something wrong lol

bradartigue · Post by **bradartigue** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:58 pm

fiat218 wrote:I'm not really smart but I hate to say This but it a fiat, It looks like one? Its says it a fiat, so I guess mr brad, it a fiat regardless what he has done to it, you can disguise a dog, but it will still bark ( like a dog

Again, why do you care what I think? I'm not a judge. I lean towards preserving the cars, not modifying them to the point that they cannot be recovered. I also try to influence people who want to enjoy the cars to make modifications that improve the reliability of the car first.

I do not have the foggiest clue why this is so hard to understand.

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:16 pm

bradartigue wrote:
fiat218 wrote:I'm not really smart but I hate to say This but it a fiat, It looks like one? Its says it a fiat, so I guess mr brad, it a fiat regardless what he has done to it, you can disguise a dog, but it will still bark ( like a dog
Again, why do you care what I think? I'm not a judge. I lean towards preserving the cars, not modifying them to the point that they cannot be recovered. I also try to influence people who want to enjoy the cars to make modifications that improve the reliability of the car first.

I do not have the foggiest clue why this is so hard to understand.

I'm so surprise that you don't go save all the fiats that are being disassembled, and by the way,I like giving you shit
I have 3 fiats and I will do what I damn we'll please with them

but you have a very good point and I just may rethink what I am doing, not because of you but I would not want a hood with 2 bumps, so we will see what MY mechanic says when he see the car

courtenay · Post by **courtenay** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:28 am

I'm with Brad on this one. I too am a bit of a "purist" and want to keep my car as close to the way it rolled out of the factory as I reasonably can. Others - including you Jim - can do what ever the hell they want with their cars. It's your money and if you like FrankenFiats, fill your boots.

toplessexpat · Post by **toplessexpat** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:23 am

Has anyone got space for a Frankenfiat museum? As a group we could pool together to purchase the aforementioned abominations/cynosures, it would mean that:

- those that like them get to have somewhere to stand and gaze on their malformed lines; and

- those that hate them get to have them off of the public highway (and also know that those that like them are cooped up in rapt admiration)

A

baltobernie · Post by **baltobernie** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:29 pm

Be sure and save enough money to additionally buy all those abandoned Spider projects that started off trying to outperform a modern car.

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 3:58 pm

baltobernie wrote:Be sure and save enough money to additionally buy all those abandoned Spider projects that started off trying to outperform a modern car.

brads job

toplessexpat · Post by **toplessexpat** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:29 pm

Honestly - some days I'd really love to "give it all up" and spend my entire time tinkering and resurrecting Spiders back to their former glory. Obviously with some help from my friends

When a week consists of 8+ segments in the air, then it's an entire week of "those days".

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:33 pm

I would not mind having more, but that damn shipping cost ,Grrrrr

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:34 pm

I would not mind having more, but that damn shipping cost ,Grrrrr

I could buy them, brad could fix them.

fiat218 · Post by **fiat218** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:35 pm

I am done with this topic,

speedracer · Post by **speedracer** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:26 pm

bradartigue wrote:Again, why do you care what I think? I'm not a judge. I lean towards preserving the cars, not modifying them to the point that they cannot be recovered. I also try to influence people who want to enjoy the cars to make modifications that improve the reliability of the car first.

I do not have the foggiest clue why this is so hard to understand.

I'm with you Brad.

What a mess the "Spider" in question is. I just don't get the motivation behind doing something like that and then thinking how great it is. I guess to each his own, but I like and enjoy my nearly stock 79 Spider. Its dependable, it looks great and it gets a lot of compliments as is. I think Fiat got it pretty well right, and while there are things I would like to see changed or modified, they are indeed little things, not like changing engines! I to have seen my fair share of mutilated Spiders and I agree, "poor cars".

And since it was brought up, change the car in the forum banner for something more stock looking, which better represents what the Spider looked like and was originally envisioned by the designers at Fiat...

"If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"

Re: "If you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it"