beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Right up until the point it sent you into a hedge backwards.Griff said:
Bloody awful cars
The Best Looking Italian Cars
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Bloody awful cars
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Not having the rarified tastes of my fellow posters 
p), It's incumbent on me to introduce some levity into the proceedings by introducing two of my favourite "knockabout" nice-looking Italian cars.
The Fiat X1/9
Alfa Romeo Alfasud
p), It's incumbent on me to introduce some levity into the proceedings by introducing two of my favourite "knockabout" nice-looking Italian cars.The Fiat X1/9
Alfa Romeo Alfasud
beesonthewhatnow said:Right up until the point it sent you into a hedge backwards.
Bloody awful cars
my carerra 3.2 was more than fine if you thought about what you were doing and planned every move - not a bad thing of you are caning it - I never had a problem with it
more stable than my 2.0s capri
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Griff said:*points and laughs at ViolentPanda*
Back when I were a lad, they were the only Italian "sporty" cars that you ever saw in my neck of the woods.
I have to admit I preferred the Alfasud for it's engine and the possibilities for modification, but I always loved the X1/9's seemingly totally impractical (at the time) shape.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Griff said:
For all you square loving people, here's the 1971 Fiat 130 Coupe.
Not many left sadly.
That good old "Fiat cancer" problem. Show the bodywork and chassis a glass of water, and watch it start to rot!
mattie
missing in inaction
Roadkill said:On the subject of Italian cars - albeit hardly good-looking ones - I did read somewhere that the latest craze is sticking high-powered motorbike engines into Fiat 126s.
Evidence here:
Look at that acceleration!
A mate of mine does something similar:
http://www.f500.co.uk/
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Griff said:Remember the Lancia Betas for that?
A mate's dad ordered one at the Motor Show the year they were launched. It arrived with the paint on one of the front wings bubbling around the wheel arch area where the steel was rusting underneath the two-pack.
Apparently Lancia UK went into the red 3 years running paying their dealerships to fix bodywork and electrics problems on Betas. Scary, and sad because they were a nice car.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
pogofish said:
I've often wondered whether the Italian car manufacturers all used the same steel producer. It might explain why they had interminable problems with just about every production model ever launched having corrosion problems.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
ViolentPanda said:A mate's dad ordered one at the Motor Show the year they were launched. It arrived with the paint on one of the front wings bubbling around the wheel arch area where the steel was rusting underneath the two-pack.
Apparently Lancia UK went into the red 3 years running paying their dealerships to fix bodywork and electrics problems on Betas. Scary, and sad because they were a nice car.
I remember being at Harwich or somewhere like that when I was a kid, and my dad was looking at a load of Beta saloons as they came off the ship into the loading docks, and the amount of rust on them was frightening.
Amazing really.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
ViolentPanda said:I've often wondered whether the Italian car manufacturers all used the same steel producer. It might explain why they had interminable problems with just about every production model ever launched having corrosion problems.
I think it was attributed to the Italian motor industry's fondness for importing cheap but poor quality Soviet/East European steel. Esp in the 70s, when price competition was at its worst.
So yes, they probably did have the same small group of suppliers.
Griff
Feeding the foxes
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
nuffsaid said:Loved the Dino, but for modern ones this is a beaut. Alfa Brera.
That looks exactly like every other yuppie-mobile trundling up and down the M4 corridor all day
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