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URL: http://riceornot.ricecop.com/?auto=86403
Submitted by: Adambomb
Comments: 7  (Read/Post)     Favorites: 0  (View)
Submitted on: 12-22-2011
View Stats Category: Car
Description:
1978 Fiat 131


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#1
12-23-2011 @ 12:13:02 AM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
Based on smog records this lives in Grass Valley. That's funny because it looks basically identical to one RRB and I saw parked in Emeryville this past January. Grass Valley proper is 140 miles away from there - but there is a small suburb of Oakland called Grass Valley only about 10 miles away. So heck, this could be the same car we saw.

#2
12-24-2011 @ 08:06:44 AM
Posted By : Sensekhmet Reply | Edit | Del
How's Fiat servicing in the US anyway?

#3
12-24-2011 @ 10:28:32 AM
Posted By : Skid Reply | Edit | Del
#2, Pretty much nonexistant for anything that isn't a late-model 500. Owning one would require networking with other owners and relying on used parts or shipping from overseas....basically, the same thing I had to deal with on my Peugeot. Except probably more difficult, since the Pug 505 is more common here than any Fiat.

#4
12-24-2011 @ 02:20:00 PM
Posted By : wannabemustangjockey  Reply | Edit | Del
In San Francisco at least, the Alfa shops seem to also service old Fiats.

#5
12-26-2011 @ 09:11:55 AM
Posted By : Sensekhmet Reply | Edit | Del
Fiat has (had?) a strange policy for old models. I've already mentioned they flat out seemed to pretend to forget about some things they manufactured (Huh, a 'Ritmo'? Nope, never heard of it) and parts for others are impossible to get: recently a bunch of Polish X1/9 owners placed an order in a German auto glass factory for new front windshields since they could not get them anywhere else.

#6
12-27-2011 @ 01:38:39 AM
Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck Reply | Edit | Del
#5, If anything the internet is a godsend for trying to keep an old and semi-obscure model of car running, for those of you younger than about 20, you can count yourselves lucky that you don't have to place ads in collector publications or scour antique stores/car shows looking for parts like you used to. Or buy every junk car that yours was a descendant of in the hopes of some parts-interchangablility

#7
6-11-2014 @ 11:13:38 PM
Posted By : DiRF  Reply | Edit | Del
Whilst it's a handsome little sedan, I much prefer the Abarth 131... just all kinds of awesome.

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