My first Fiat

[daverwd]

There the only wheel for a sport Nick... If I had a sport there the wheel I would be running....


She was reasonable clean in her day kevin... Suffered a bit along the top of the wind screen & around the tail lights... Other than than she had new  doors & an immaculate interior...

[rallydiego]

This was my first 2000 TC I bought and restored back in 1990. It was a 1981 racing and was sold in 1996 to a friend which sold it again. The car was never heard from again so I fear it has been scrapped

[jasonh131]

They all seam to be yellow cl,s  just like my first car a  131 a 77 s reg 1.6 cl  about 1985 a right lemon with a later interior and at the next mot found  a load of papermasha in the sills filled over . later crashed in a ditch at speed back wards into a tree never had a PIC of my first car  with the super clover leaf wheels .

[131akafa]

The first Fiat in our family was their first car at all: a green 500 C "Topolino" Estate, MY1952, purchased as a new car. My Grandpa substituted it with a lightblue/beige NSU Neckar (a Fiat 1100 built under license in Neckarsulm/Germany) in 1959. In 1970 followed a beige 125 S (in which I a had my first car ride being brauchght back home from hospital as a newborn). In 1981 my Grandpa bought his 4th and last Fiat: a golden 132 2000 i.e. as a new car which became my 1st car in 1996.
My Dad Ernst needed 4 different BMWs and a Opel before he joined the club with a silver 131 Super Mk3 1400TC, MY1983 purchased in 1986 and daily-driver since then. Beside his car No3 the only car he never sold and never will.
Last but not least: My brother Jan started his Fiat career with a white 132 2000 i.e., MY1980, in 1999 6 months before he got his driver's license.
Below you find and overview of the cars mentioned above and the pictures of our 1st Fiats in their current state.

Regards,
Ren?

[131akafa]

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[kev131]

That's a comprehensively illustrated timeline Rene!!

We better not start a thread entitled "My second and subsequent Fiats"!!  

I hadn't realised that your gold 132 had been bought new by your Grandpa. I guess that's a "never sell" car too!

Nice to see Ernst's car with the standard headlights and I see that Jan is maintaining the family tradition of swapping the stock of wheels from car to car!  

[simon131]

My first Fiat was my first ever car, a 1978 128 1300CL four door in metallic blue (400) with the blue velour interior - reg was SJB230S, which I purchased in Bracknell, Berkshire in about November 1985 (I had been using my Mum's 128 3P for 6 months prior to buying my own car) for ?430. Great little car, but had a tendency to freeze on the inside of the windows as the heater didn't work! No pics unfortunately.

Second car was a 1978 128 3P in green with a black Starsky and Hutch type strip down the sides.

Third car was my first 131, a 1981 black 131 Sport, NPF962W. Wow, what a car! Loved it. Crashed it (like most 19 year old boys ) repaired it, then it caught light  Some years later I replaced NPF with the pretty well known JPD969V, which my now wife Wendy drove into a parked car and wrote off - I guess I have always been destined never to own a black 131 Sport 

[bellamacchina]

131 super-man welcome here, my condolences

My first car was an Alfasud ti bought for 925 guilders(app 400 euro) and stone rotten but man, that thing drove, Swapped it for a near mint Alfasud 1.3 5m. That car I sold to buy my first 131 Racing, a silver import with also serious work needed in the near future, With that car I had a puncture and because of the wet road a light and a fence were too close. I wrote it off but stripped it completely and most parts still ive on in my orange Racing. After 2 weeks in a Lada 1200, kindly offered by my then boss I bought a Giulietta 116 2.0, also rusty but very reliable(really!). When I got my job with a companycar, a beige Peugeot 305 1.5, I sold the Giulietta and bought the orange Racing I still have. It was rotten, didn't run properly, interior worn etc etc but with all the parts of the silver donor we could go on. That was all in 1989-1990. In 1995-1996 we fully restored the orange Racing, as you can see here in the resto part and it is still with us since 5-9-1990. Of course are the pictures in the showroom section

[Phil]

When I was a teenager Dad brought his first Fiat which was a 131 supermirafiori he had the car for about five years before buying a Regata automatic, that was the extent of his Fiat experience.

In 1985 I got my first car a 1977 Toyota Corolla, which in 1986 I traded in a Fiat Regata 85 (my first Fiat) I only had the car for about 9 months going up market to an Austin Allegro (with the square steering wheel) then I brought my second Fiat my first 131 with a 1600 engine - I drove this car until it died and sadly it went to the scrap yard. Fairly soon after this I got my first company car was a Fiat Uno 55s, than came a Strada and my last Fiat company car was a Regata.

In 1990 I left the Fiat dealership and from there onwards all my cars have been anything except Fiat, the last Fiat I drove (until I got the present 131) was a Fiat Croma which my boss lent me to use for a two week holiday.         

[POQ 131]

This is my first Fiat. It is the last of the 125 specials with a 1600 TC 5 speed. BC coupe motor.

[Thotos]

Not sure if this was his first Fiat but you can certainly see in his face how proud he was of his 131 
But who is he? All I will say is that he is a member of this forum and he is still a 131 owner, in fact he's got two now 

[simon131]

I think that's a very, very young Polegate resident! The Super has a Sussex registration so that could be a clue too. Where on earth did you get these pics Theo?

[kev131]

Aha, a young AC! Thought he looked familiar!

[sid131]

With hair

[mirafioriman]

Nice looking super