You are right, it was a 850. The picture I looked at before didn't looked
like the one I was working on but it's because it a Bertone one (The
headlight are quite different). Just found another picture and that is more
like it.
Thanks for correcting me.
Steph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Schwartz" <bschwart@pacbell.net>
To: "Stephane St-Amant" <steph71tr6@crosswinds.net>
Cc: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:28
Subject: Re: Spit carb part & an unrelated story
> >Ooops, Just check and it wasn't a 850 but a early '70s 124 Spyder. But
the
> >engive WAS at the rear! With the gas tank between the seats and the
engine!
> >Remember being somewhat scared by that setup but I guess I'm over it now!
> ****************************
> I think you may want to check again. . .All Fiat 124 Spiders (Italian for
> convertible) not the Coupe, had a longitudinally mounted twin cam engine
in
> the front driving the rear wheels. The 850 Spider and Coupe was a (very
> small) water cooled straight 4 longitudinally mounted REAR engined car
with
> the radiator and water pump mounted off the right side of the engine and
> the X19 was a mid engined transverse mounted, wedgee-doorstop shaped car
> with the radiator in the front -
> Of all those, the 850 Spider would be the closest to looking (if you could
> say that) like a Spitfire, although it would be even SMALLER if that's
> possible :-)
>
> I had a Simca Bertone coupe (French) which was almost an exact mechanical
> copy of the fiat in almost every respect except it was a little larger in
> every respect. Kind of as if they took an 850 and shoved it into a
machine
> the made everything come out 10-15% bigger - It featured a transverse
> mounted FRONT spring - my first foray into transverse mounted springs -
>
> Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
> 72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
> 70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
> 70 Spitfire (long term project)
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