Hello (again!) from the Upper Left

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paook
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Your car is a: 1980 124 Spider 2000
Location: Washington, USA

Hello (again!) from the Upper Left

Post by paook »

It's been years since I was active on here, so my account got deleted... but now I'm back!

Our 1980 124 is currently being restored by a British classic car shop that isn't afraid of a little Italian. The little old lady was sitting on jacks in our garage for .. uh.. 10 years?? Kids & life just kept us too busy to work on her, and now with both of us working there's even less time. Two (really 3-4... we own our own stained glass shop) full time jobs doesn't leave much any spare time to tinker. So, I jumped at the opportunity to throw money at the spider when I very randomly found that British shop. My daughter wanted to go to a local Ren Faire, and I looked up the location by its address... and this car shop showed up as being there also. Pure happenstance.

I'm sure I'll be posting some more once we get the car back. Plenty of work being done to her. The biggies:
- lowered suspension
- bumper conversion
- metalwork & repaint
- wake her up from a decade snooze
- lots of bits-n-bobs (door handles, mirrors, steering wheel, other bling...)

Jason & Julia

1980 124 spider "Rosie"
Formerly:
2012 500 Abarth
1975 124 spider
1976 124 spider
and before the Mrs. met me, she had:
200x Fiat Grande Punto
200x Fiat Punto
and her Dad before her:
a couple of Ladas
and her brother:
Fiat Ulysse with over 600K(?) miles on it
...you get the picture :D
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Re: Hello (again!) from the Upper Left

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Welcome back Jason, and thank you so much for your support! Really excited to see the progress as it unfolds.
Evan
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rdv
Posts: 471
Joined: Sun Feb 12, 2006 8:34 am
Your car is a: 69 AS Spider
Location: Hamburg, Germany

Re: Hello (again!) from the Upper Left

Post by rdv »

Hi Jason,
welcome back! Just don't remember if we got in contact 10 years ago, but anyway your Spider should be listed / updated in the worldwide Spider Register!

This is our list of Washington Spiders in the Register (actually 341 cars):
https://www.fiatspider.de/register?Fahr ... Washington
You can narrow the results by choose type "CS0/2000" for your 1980 Spider.

Good luck with your project, we want to see some pics of your result!
Cheers Ralf
69 AS Spider
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