Finally!

[4uall]

It is with great thanks to NJFIAT1981 aka George that I now have my 1980 owners manual along with some other amazing documents

[juvius]

Nice.... George has all the good stuff!

[spidernut]

Fantastic! Looks like a great score.

[81SPIDERMATT]

what does the towing manual say

[ClarkTheShark]

I'm really interested in that limited corrosion warranty. What does it say?

[AriK]

They surely wanted to familiarize you with towing instructions and rust corrosion pretty quickly with that $10,000 invoice. Pretty damn expensive considering all-American muscle cars were retailing at $7200.00
Imagine the Spider appreciated in value at the same rate compared to its U.S. counterparts?

[So Cal Mark]

LIMITED corrosion warranty is the key phrase

[AriK]

Surface rust wouldn't count. For validity it was likely that perforation would need to set in within 1 year, like Hyundai did with thir early cars. Unless rust created a safety concern.

[ClarkTheShark]

They surely wanted to familiarize you with towing instructions and rust corrosion pretty quickly with that $10,000 invoice. Pretty damn expensive considering all-American muscle cars were retailing at $7200.00
Imagine the Spider appreciated in value at the same rate compared to its U.S. counterparts?

You pretty much had to be a fool to buy one. I have the same dilemma with the new Abarths. Its really painful when I see a 2012 Abarth going for 14k. That's probably the same with most new cars though.

[4uall]

Since the first year I acquired Fiona I have oil sprayed her every fall True story

[Fiatracertracer]

Since the first year I acquired Fiona I have oil sprayed her every fall True story

Can you explain why oil spraying is done and on what?

[4uall]

This might help

https://www.krown.com/faqs/

http://www.ziebart.com/auto-care-servic ... dercoating

[baltobernie]

Can you explain why oil spraying is done and on what?

Controls mosquito population

[81SPIDERMATT]

I have heard oil spray followed by a drive on a dusty road is actually a quite capable rust preventative

should make lots of stuff around my car rust free forever ..... drip drip

[bradartigue]

I have the same dilemma with the new Abarths. Its really painful when I see a 2012 Abarth going for 14k. That's probably the same with most new cars though.

These are not perceived as collector's or specialty cars by anyone. Just another appearance package. Even real performance cars - Mercedes AMG, BMW M, Audi S, etc. - have massive depreciation. They are worth nothing after a few years because they weren't all that special to begin with.

Spiders could sell for high prices because there was nothing in that price range that was a convertible. What did it have to compete with, MGs? Even a complete idiot could see the MG was a relic, Triumph was no better, Porsche and Mercedes too expensive, Alfa was almost the same car (to most people) and cost more.

The Miata killed them all, rightly so, it ran and had air conditioning and a radio. Too bad it looked like a Lotus Elan e.g. your sister's car...