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ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 10:33am

 DaveInVA wrote:
 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Very cool!. I've owned a few FIAT's myself but so far never a 500. I've had a '58 1100 sedan and 2 later model X1/9's that technically weren't FIAT's as Bertone took those over around '83 or so.

 
Did you see the Mokes? Those are more Grady's thing. You two'd have a lot to talk about because he never gets rid of anything that might be fixed one day.

Here's their old website, with "Who Did Grady Meet?" but if you go to the home page, you can see the overgrown home/pool/lot they bought. Obviously 15 years later they've done a little to make it liveable.


DaveInSaoMiguel

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 10:10am



This was my '58 FIAT 1100 Sedan. I actually liked it. Got great mileage and was to slow to get a ticket in. The hamsters were running at full speed up on the freeway. It even had "suicide" doors. Unfortunately the next owner took the engine out of it to replace one in a convertible FIAT of the same vintage that was worth a lot more.

FIAT - F*cked In Ass Transportion  
My '72 Rover 3500S is visible in my driveway in the background. 


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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:54am


fiat 850
FIAT 850
My dad's was dark blue but looked like this one. POS
First car I ever drove at 15 yrs old 1977 or so.
Fix It Again Tony.
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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:32am

 Coaxial wrote:

Very cool, both the article and the cars.

 
Indeed.
DaveInSaoMiguel

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:24am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 


Very cool!. I've owned a few FIAT's myself but so far never a 500. I've had a '58 1100 sedan and 2 later model X1/9's that technically weren't FIAT's as Bertone took those over around '83 or so.
Coaxial

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:14am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Very cool, both the article and the cars.
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Nov 5, 2014 - 9:03am

My friends Kristy & Grady made the WSJ: 
 
 
buzz

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Posted: Oct 21, 2014 - 2:16pm

 oldviolin wrote:

see how that works?

 
no. no i dont. please explain it to me. 
oldviolin

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Posted: Oct 21, 2014 - 2:05pm

 Proclivities wrote:

It could've been worse:
?

 
Actually I did have one of those, and a suit to match...
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Posted: Oct 21, 2014 - 2:04pm

 buzz wrote:
 oldviolin wrote:

Never want to drive my 68 Opal Kadett again. 4 cylinders, 3 of which sort of worked. Sewing machines had more power than that thing.

 
thats *so* weird. i was just thinking the same thing. 
 
see how that works?
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Posted: Oct 21, 2014 - 1:10pm

 oldviolin wrote:

Never want to drive my 68 Opal Kadett again. 4 cylinders, 3 of which sort of worked. Sewing machines had more power than that thing.

 
It could've been worse:
?
buzz

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 11:34am

 oldviolin wrote:

Never want to drive my 68 Opal Kadett again. 4 cylinders, 3 of which sort of worked. Sewing machines had more power than that thing.

 
thats *so* weird. i was just thinking the same thing. 
Bill_Rockoff

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 10:05am

I test-drove an automatic-trans R/T shortly before borrowing the 6.1 SRT-8, and I didn't notice much of a power difference, if any  - they were both "PLENTY!" 

In fact, the choice I keep coming back to is basically your exact car, the R/T with the 6-speed and some minor mods to make it more entertaining.  The SRT-8 comes with enough of a fuel economy penalty that it more than offsets the minor additional power, to me. 

Mostly theoretical at this point, with a kid in college and a step-kid in braces, but if my daily-driver coughs up a lung on the way home this week, I'd be looking for a 6MT R/T in black.


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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:58am

 Bill_Rockoff wrote:

The Road Runner was a '70.  BUT, there were some oddball parts, because it had apparently been a drag car for a while, and we'd run into things like "the '70 flywheel doesn't fit the transmission bellhousing, it needs the '69 flywheel and clutch assembly - is it the original 4-speed?" 

We knew a guy locally who could make the nose, rear window assembly, and wing assembly to make a faux Superbird out of one of these (or a faux Daytona out of a Charger.)  Still tempting, now that B-body prices have come down and my disposable income may begin to actually exist in the next year.  But still not a likelihood for "driving this car for dating with mah girl."



 
That's right. They came with the colors in 70. I loved those things. The Super Bees too. We had a couple of Super Birds around town here also.
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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:55am

 Bill_Rockoff wrote:

The Road Runner went pretty good for an old car.  I only drove it a few miles - got the tires loose when the secondaries opened up in 3rd gear, at probably 80 mph, and barked 'em going into 4th at probably a bit more than that.  That was probably quite enough for a car with no seatbelts and an alignment we did by eye, at night.  It got sold a few days later to fund a race car.  As the owner said, "I couldn't wait to get this thing built, but now I can't wait to get this thing gone.  It's not a race car, and it won't tow a race car to the track, so $#%k it - who needs it?"

I borrowed an SRT-8 with the 6.1 liter / 6MT for a day.  That was a good day, car-wise.  The dealer who loaned it to me said "Drive it like it's yours."  The 5-year-old son I mentioned below was, at the time, a 15-year-old with a learner's permit, and he had been driving a manual-transmission Miata since he could reach the clutch pedal.  (The previous year, at age 14, he had driven the Miata on a racetrack.)  I asked the guy, " 'drive it like it's mine' means my kid will be driving it, is that okay?"  I was assured that was no problem.  You can find a couple of applicable Youtube video clips by searching for my user name and "SRT-8." 

That car was its own 4th of July parade wherever it went, and its own car show wherever it stopped.  Rolling up through carpool in a black SRT-8, with the obviously-a-manual-transmission kind of sounds it makes in a carpool line, was probably a pretty cool high school moment.  You can't even properly soundtrack such a moment with the car stereo, because you'd have to pick either "Back In Black" or "Hell's Bells" or "Highway Star" or one of several ZZ Top songs, and it's really best to let the exhaust sort of imply eight or nine such songs at once.   

My wife refused to even ride in it - she hates "gas guzzlers," and anything meant to be faster than her Forester qualifies as a "gas guzzler" even if it gets better fuel economy than her Forester.  The SRT-8 did NOT get better fuel economy than a Forester, but it's a pretty sweet mile-eater on all other fronts and I LOVE everything else about them.



 
It's a monster, no doubt.  I've got a black 2014 R/T with a six-speed manual transmission.  The rear mufflers have been removed and I'm constantly being complimented on it's sound and presence.  I'm diggin' it, no doubt.
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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:52am

 

 oldviolin wrote:


'69?

 
The Road Runner was a '70.  BUT, there were some oddball parts, because it had apparently been a drag car for a while, and we'd run into things like "the '70 flywheel doesn't fit the transmission bellhousing, it needs the '69 flywheel and clutch assembly - is it the original 4-speed?" 

We knew a guy locally who could make the nose, rear window assembly, and wing assembly to make a faux Superbird out of one of these (or a faux Daytona out of a Charger.)  I am still tempted, now that B-body prices have come down and my disposable income may begin to actually exist in the next year.  But it will not be a likelihood for "driving this car for dating with mah girl."

Edit to add: the 5-year-old is 20 now, and he sure was in one hell of a hurry to reinstall the passenger's seat and footpegs on this thing, presumably to drive it for dating his girl.

Duc


oldviolin

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:39am

 buzz wrote:
 oldviolin wrote:

'69?

 
not right now, but thanks for asking.
 
Never want to drive my 68 Opal Kadett again. 4 cylinders, 3 of which sort of worked. Sewing machines had more power than that thing.
buzz

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:36am

 oldviolin wrote:

'69?

 
not right now, but thanks for asking.
Bill_Rockoff

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:34am

 FourFortyEight wrote:

Understandable.  I drive a new Challenger.  Chicks don't care much for it either from what I've gathered.  It attracts more guys than girls. 
Sounds familiar.

What you've got right there, though, is a bad-ass.  {#Motor}

 

The Road Runner went pretty good for an old car.  I only drove it a few miles - got the tires loose when the secondaries opened up in 3rd gear, at probably 80 mph, and barked 'em going into 4th at probably a bit more than that.  That was probably quite enough for a car with no seatbelts and an alignment we did by eye, at night.  It got sold a few days later to fund a race car.  As the owner said, "I couldn't wait to get this thing built, but now I can't wait to get this thing gone.  It's not a race car, and it won't tow a race car to the track, so $#%k it - who needs it?"

I borrowed an SRT-8 with the 6.1 liter / 6MT for a day.  That was a good day, car-wise.  The dealer who loaned it to me said "Drive it like it's yours."  The 5-year-old son I mentioned below was, at the time, a 15-year-old with a learner's permit, and he had been driving a manual-transmission Miata since he could reach the clutch pedal.  (The previous year, at age 14, he had driven the Miata on a racetrack.)  I asked the guy, " 'drive it like it's mine' means my kid will be driving it, is that okay?"  I was assured that was no problem.  You can find a couple of applicable Youtube video clips by searching for my user name and "SRT-8." 

That car was its own 4th of July parade wherever it went, and its own car show wherever it stopped.  Rolling up through carpool in a black SRT-8, with the obviously-a-manual-transmission kind of sounds it makes in a carpool line, was probably a pretty cool high school moment.  You can't even properly soundtrack such a moment with the car stereo, because you'd have to pick either "Back In Black" or "Hell's Bells" or "Highway Star" or one of several ZZ Top songs, and it's really best to let the exhaust sort of imply eight or nine such songs at once.   

My wife refused to even ride in it - she hates "gas guzzlers," and anything meant to be faster than her Forester qualifies as a "gas guzzler" even if it gets better fuel economy than her Forester.  The SRT-8 did NOT get better fuel economy than a Forester, but it's a pretty sweet mile-eater on all other fronts and I LOVE everything else about them.




oldviolin

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Posted: Oct 20, 2014 - 9:09am

 Bill_Rockoff wrote:

Road Runner

Funny, when I got to drive this Road Runner (the Coronet's snotty brother) it was the *most* expensive car I had ever driven, aside from cars that my parents were leasing. 

This is a 440/6-pack, 4-speed, matching numbers, Dana axle, no air conditioning.  I spent a summer wire-brushing and repainting the bolts holding this car together, because new bolts have different markings and would be obviously "not original."  The friend who owned it moved to my house with this car partly in boxes.  Not long after this photo, it was ready to be driven on the road for the first time in 20+ years. 

My 5-year-old son thought it was awesome, but it would have been tragi-comic to have "driven this car for dating mah girl."  For most of the women I have ever dated, this car would have been "Girl Repellent." 



 
'69?
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