131mirafiori forum

This Sport might be known to the forum as the picture was taken at the entrance to Snetterton Race Circuit around 1990/91.An italian marques event was staged and it looks like a convoy of Fiats had made the trip - i remember the Sport and 130 tc flooring it straight after i had taken the photo !!

that must be mine ....
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 but in them days it would have been marks athttp://www.italianraceservices.co.uk/ (http://www.italianraceservices.co.uk/)
or his mate dave who i bought it off
jason

Here's a the reply i got when emailing Mark::::::::
Hey!!! What a great pic..!
Yes , that's me in the Sport and my good buddy in his 130.
We went to watch the Italian Intermarque at Snetterton.......boy, those were the days...
I`ve still got his car, albeit in total pieces, ready for a re-shell as it was written off(banana-ned)..
Still hanker after the `old sport` though... Great car.
Mark

saw her chelsea cruse many moons ago ver nice example  8) alfa wheels then think 15/s ;)
nice motor mate  ;)

yes that was me , martin

 i think Andrew has it languishing on his driveway for a few years  :( i think mark tried to get it back ,he like to keep his ole cars still got his very first car an anglia 105e   now pintoed and 40ed

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 A more recent pic in andrew ownership

Still looks tidy. Is the owner a member here?

I must have given you that photo Jason? I took the photo on Saturday, 27 July 2002, 5:27:26 pm when I went and saw the car with the possibility of buying it. I didn't buy it and bought the Sport I have now a few months later.

why not theo , had it started going , how much did he what for it back then and mark still whated to have his old sport back or even me  8)

i am asking the same question as Jason Theo why didnt you purchase?

Don't want to say too much as I might offend someone but the car wasn't for me. It needed a lot of work both bodily and mechanically. Most panels started to bubble, brakes didn't work, suspension (chopped?) was bouncing all over the place, too much of the hard to find trim was missing and it had the wrong interior. Even so, as I had all the missing trim and interior from my silver sport and I knew everything else could be sorted I did make an offer on the car but seller and buyer were too far apart on price to agree.

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rot box really Theo (at the time), even had the the wing to wiper panel filled with sealer? to stop the leaks? is it still alive somewhere? or gone to 131 sport heaven or hell? holy shit the panel gaps 10mm+

I was trying to be a bit more tactful   ;) :)

Yes , he had terrible trouble with the door gaps , have to take the wings off to adjust the door hinges ???
 the rust bubbles where only suffice rust not rotten on the body , it was all bare metaled before painting .
 

After restoring several Fiats I don't believe there is such a thing as surface rust ::)

Every time I find some corrosion and attempt to clean it off a hole appears ;)

I agree. These cars (and in fact most older Italian cars) rust from the inside out. By the time you can see the rust on the outside surface you can be sure that it goes all the way to the other side.

Is it still alive ?

Yes you have to look twice and then look again if you missed something...

Ah have not read this post in a while  ;D ;D
I missed that 174

I was answering to the post from Thotos about rust... Sorry for the mix up

Theo.
When you want to own a 131 and not dream about one for the rest of your life,sometimes if you are not in luck to find or afford a mint one you have to make a compramise and find one that need's some work.
Within reason that is.
If we all bought mint 131's the 1/2 bad one's would end up in the skip.
Do you not agree ?

At the end of the day it all comes down to the price you can afford and believe the car is worth. A restoration can cost a lot of money if you do it yourself and a massive amount if you pay others to do the work. As I have found with many of the cars I have restored or worked on the problems often go much much deeper than you first think ::)

Yes I agree. In fact as I said further up this thread, I made an offer for that car but seller and buyer were too far apart on price to agree (I think that's the same expression I used last time). The car needed work but nothing that wasn't repairable. It needed some TLC and some money and while I was willing to give lots of TLC we couldn't agree on the amount of money I should be spending. The car that I eventually bought instead of the one above (my current 131 Sport) also needed some work and still does.

Please Please PLEASE -tell me where the skip is  ;D ;D ;D

I agree with the two of you there is a fine line between the money you spend on a mint 131 and the build cost of getting a 1/2 decent 131 that needs either a full strip down or part rebuild.
I think the question is
Do you want to buy a 131 that you can be involved in its rebuild and enjoy working on it.?
Do you want to buy a 131 that someone else has done all the work on  and have nothing to do.?

I have spent well over 5000 euros for restoring my 131 S but now that I'm almost there I think tha deserved every eurocent ... ;)

A few days after i got it back after fitting up .. the first time, 4 years before theo looked at it..
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With the 15" alfa alloys and capri grey recoro's , a few days later
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I've once bought a bit rustier one... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1623928232332&set=a.1288483846432.44143.1060277622&type=3&theater after the 3rd time popin th wood it felt in the ground... LITERALLY :P