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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: mantagte on 18 March 2009, 17:28:08
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one of my first cars does anyone know what it is?
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/mantagte_/1stcar.jpg)
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Fiat 850
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Cresta??
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looks a bit like a bond equip :-/
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Produced: 1965-1972, 380000 produced.
Types: Coupe, 2 doors, 4 seats
[View Picture Gallery]Pretty little 4 seater coupe developed from the 850 saloon. Engine fitted at the rear comes in two sizes of 843cc and 903cc both giving respectable performance.
Engines
Capacity Config Model Bore/Stroke CR
843cc S4 OHV 65mm x 43mm
903cc S4 OHV 65mm x 68mm
cc Fiat 850 903cc 49HP CR 9.5 to 1
Drivetrain and Suspension
Drivetrain R/R
Steering -
Suspension Front -
Rear -
Performance
Top Speed 0-60 SQM MPG Engine Pwr Comment
87mph 18.2s 30mpg 47bhp @6200 Figures for 843cc engine
90mph 33mpg
Body
Type Seats Doors Comment
Coupe 4 2
Maintainability
Mechanics Bodywork
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Fiat 850
Not quite, its an 850 Sport Coupe with a 1l engine. My mum had one :)
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I'd put the 0-60 for the Sport one at around 14s. It was a fairly light car from the factory, and got lighter with age ;D
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correct
used to go really well for a little car and you could throw it about no probs shame the tin worm beat me in the end
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Still remember Mums reg - VEB89L (and dads car - a Citroen Desse Safari - was VEB90L)...
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and this one?
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/mantagte_/1.jpg)
mine was green and grey
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Would that be a Fiat 1500 ?
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bigger
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Fiat 1800 B
C 1966 ish
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right year :y
but bigger :)
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Ok, got to be a 6 cylinder, so;
2000.
2500
3000
But I am not sure the above exited in 1966 :-/ ::)
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Wrong, OK Fiat 2300. 1966.
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way to go
nice one
didnt think anyone would get that
a very rare beast in the sixties let alone now
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I remember the Fiat 850 coupe. I had a saloon (if you could call it that), choke cable on the floor by the handbrake. Nippy little tinker, swapped it for a white HB Viva, which developed a misfire so swapped it for a very early Mini 850. Had to get in & out the passenger door as the drivers door dropped due to a rotten A panel giving the exterior hinge nothing to hang on to!!! Real world motoring @ £10/ £20 a car.
Do you remember the Fiat 125 which became the lada? >:( The 124 coupe or my personal favourite the 128 SL Coupe pre 3p? 8-)
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I remember a 'competition' to get back from a restuarant (on a barge in Berko) to home (Aylesbury). I was a passenger in my brother's MkII Golf GTI, my eldest brother had mum and dad in a 1.3 cav, and my sister on her todd in mum's 850 sport.
And who got home first....
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had a 125 when i was about 18 which i swapped for a 131 Mirafiori
which was lethal swapped that for a 3.0 capri mk1 the one with the boot just as lethal not as rotten though
showing what era we were first driving in ;D
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I remember a 'competition' to get back from a restuarant (on a barge in Berko) to home (Aylesbury). I was a passenger in my brother's MkII Golf GTI, my eldest brother had mum and dad in a 1.3 cav, and my sister on her todd in mum's 850 sport.
And who got home first....
the little fiat :question
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I remember a 'competition' to get back from a restuarant (on a barge in Berko) to home (Aylesbury). I was a passenger in my brother's MkII Golf GTI, my eldest brother had mum and dad in a 1.3 cav, and my sister on her todd in mum's 850 sport.
And who got home first....
the little fiat :question
No. That was well and truely last. The GTI was embarrassed by the 1.3 cav - it got overtaken on the A41(M), and the golf couldn't get passed back to Aylesbury despite better acceleration.
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the fiat would have won if the road was twisty and narrow
and your sister drove like mine does (she scares the sh@t out of me)
the old cav was a great car but i prefered the astra
and yuk to the golf ;D
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Had an 850 Sport back in 1970 .. bright yellow thing ... was overtaking a truck one day.. about 85 on a dual carriageway in pouring rain ... lump of rock fell off truck and went through the windscreen (luckily passenger side and I was on my own) ... as the dual carriageway was coming to an end and I coudn't see a thing I did a pretty serious emergency stop and the heel of my foot went right through the floor !! tinworm had really got to work .. :( had to drive with a great big hole in the floor and the spray coming in !!
Got it home and patched it up with papier mache and a load of underseal, drove it very carefully to a garage and traded it :)
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Had an 850 Sport back in 1970 .. bright yellow thing ... was overtaking a truck one day.. about 85 on a dual carriageway in pouring rain ... lump of rock fell off truck and went through the windscreen (luckily passenger side and I was on my own) ... as the dual carriageway was coming to an end and I coudn't see a thing I did a pretty serious emergency stop and the heel of my foot went right through the floor !! tinworm had really got to work .. :( had to drive with a great big hole in the floor and the spray coming in !!
Got it home and patched it up with papier mache and a load of underseal, drove it very carefully to a garage and traded it :)
Must admit we don't suffer from the old tin worm like we did when we were younger, even in older cars, they do seem to mostly keep there floors..... :y
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I remember having a mark 3 escort (first of the front wheel drive) with the bounciest back seat ever! A couple of 1 1/2" by 1 1/2" and a good coat of underseal it made 2 MOTs before the passenger seat made an entrance to the underside ;D