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Fiat 126 Chat => Your Restorations => Topic started by: 126dave on January 21, 2009, 09:04:39 AM
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i thought you guys might like to see the coupe.........as found and delivered home
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/4346/fiat850008tz7.jpg)
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6208/fiat850007ip7.jpg)
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4432/fiat850006td5.jpg)
(http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/800/fiat850005lp8.jpg)
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2420/fiat850003gd8.jpg)
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/4254/fiat850002yv1.jpg)
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7564/fiat850001uk1.jpg)
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well it aint a 126, it aint cold where you are, and we arnt there ....god your lucky!! nice find now get it got.lol
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Holy poo! Bella macchina!
It even has the engine at the right place ;)
What are your plans Dave?
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hi mali and mick, well the plans are well advanced....most of the mechanical bits have been found....from europe mostly, and i have the car running ok, i went today to see my blaster man, the car will be totaly stripped and jig mounted for a full grit blast by a classic car restorer, meanwhile i will restore the mechanical parts, it goes in in feb, he's doin a porsche at the moment..
im still looking for floor sections and front wheelwell repair panel.....i will fabricate locally if nothing turns up.
its a '66 843cc coupe...twin choke weber carb with 4 branch exhaust as standard...about 40+ bhp but i will mod it slightly though! to start with im going to have an 'abarth' front suspension block for the transverse leafspring made here, that will drop the nose up to 40mm....and i'll do the 126 trick for negative camber up front as well....its kinda like a sporty 126 with 40 bhp and disc brakes from the factory ........... :D
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i found some outer sills at oldcarpanels.com (uk) £15 a side...im chuffed, the others i found were in the states at £73.00 each 8)
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Very nice car the 850 Coupe! If I had one even though 30 years ago!
If so is how you described, you will be a great part!
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thank you, it seems the 850 was popular in Germany, I have managed to get most suspension bushes etc for German Ebay, the listings for the 850 range are always long and full of usefull bits.
(actually, looking at the wishbone bushes they seem the same as 126.....in fact the whole front suspension is close....has anyone tried 850 sport kingpins/disc brakes on their 126?, my old 126 conversion used 850 sport discs....)
do you have any pictures of your old coupe?
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Very nice!
Its very likely i will be in KL at some point this year. We should meet up for a drink!
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want one???? got 3k? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fiat-850-Sport-Coupe_W0QQitemZ120369734895QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item120369734895&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A7%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
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let me know when your in town tomasz...there are no 126's here to my knowledge,and very few 500's, but you will see the odd 600 running around, ive never seen so many 600/600d's anywhere else but italy !
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ive never seen so many 600/600d's anywhere else but italy !
you should have come to a ex-yugoslavian country, there were houndreds of thousands here driving around, but there are getting rarer, just like the 126. (its interesting how the prices of the 600 or zastava 750 have gone up to 1000€/1500€, while the 126 is still wery cheap... :( )
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it shud shoot up one day.. so as a club i think we shud buy up all the 126's while there cheap.. lol
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lol, just the ones in britain or? i believe there are more than a few still driving in poland :D
sorry for the OT :o
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Gordon, these arent Zastava or other copies, these are Italian production 'real' 600(suicide door) and 600d's...all the Fiat's here are original imports from the time they were current models, large quantity imports of fiats stopped at 500r/127/128/131/132 model time, and have only just re started with the latest cars.
I kinda meant this is the most REAL Fiats I've sen since I was in Italy
Oh had an email tonight from a guy up north who has NOS bumpers/glass and other stuff for my coupe !!
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oo cool, but zastavas arent that different from the fiat, the zavy 600 is actually a fiat with different badging.. now that you mention it, i dont think ive seen a fiat 600, ever, and ive been quite a few times to italy...
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the zastava 750 ''like i had'' is actualy about 6'' longer than the 600.. but thats about it.
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is it really? i thought they were carbon copies of the 600d....where is the extra length?
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oo cool, but zastavas arent that different from the fiat, the zavy 600 is actually a fiat with different badging..
hehehehe i realise that... ;D
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yeah paul, are you sure? the 600eds are identical, the z750 got a new engine, th z850 got the biggest one, but i dont think the appearance was changed?
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i read the zastava is a few inches longer in the floor pan, just behind the doors, to make more leg room for back passengers... i also niticed the 600 carperts i bought did not fit because of this??
they were just short
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wow i really didnt know that.....is the whole shell stretched or did they just find some extra room inside?....the pictures ive seen, they look identical.....learn something every day here eh?