A Fiat 850!!! Wow waaaaay cool! They've become so rare now-a real collectors
car.
Just call me "The Patron Saint of Lost Cars"!
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur H. Smith <arthurhsmith@compuserve.com>
To: SPITFIRES <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 6:52 AM
Subject: re: Re: Yugo
>
>Message text written by "Laura G."
>>I have actually owned a 128 and a 124 sedan (I lived in Italy at the time,
>so it was painless.)-and I used to drive my friends X 1/9 a lot-loved that
>little monkey! But, haven't yet had my hands on the 124 convertible -but my
>daughter is thinking about buying one, so I might get my chance yet!
>
>Now, let's talk Alfas and Lancias!<
>
>No Fiats . My mother had an 850 and it was a coool car, tuned exhaust,
>rear engine. I had to use it a few times when my college car broke. Every
>so often I would be following someone and they would disappear, and I would
>see them in the rear view mirror. I'd be zipping in and out of traffic and
>oooops I'd pass them.
>
>I did an oil change for my mom once and spent an hour poking feeling
>looking but there was no oil filter. Found it later when I was changing the
>fan belt. It was the crank pally, it used centriphical (?) Centirpital (?)
>It used the spinning around force to clean the oil, very cool I thought.
>
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