Pretoria Cars In The Park

[131R]

Hi, me and the sons attended this event yesterday 01/08/2010.  Pic's here of my sons Racing and my other sons 124ST.  Will post more pic's.

[131R]

Some more pic's. Abarth replica and 131 1600 Rally with strong 2000 engine.

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And more!

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Another 124ST and 2300 Coupe

[131R]

Sorry missed the 124ST.  Some sports model.

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Ok now you got the yellow 124ST twice!  Will try not to post it 3 times!  Sorry not the best of pic's as it was taken with my Cell phone but want to share this with you. 

[kev131]

Great pics and cars ...and all RHD too! very jealous of those 124 STs. My dad had a new one in 1973 - Mustard green - It replaced a red 1200cc Fiat 124 Berlina.

Boy did it go compared with the cars we used to have and Dad must have thought he had changed jobs from Sales to Rally driver when he got this car. Despite my tender years at the time I can vividly remember the fact that this was the first of our cars that had a rev counter. Dad and I always had a secret not shared with the sisters or mother. Whenever an icy challenge of "why are you driving so fast ...dear...?" was heard, an inncocent finger would be pointed at the tacho saying "but we are only doing 40 mph - Look!" Of course in reality the 1600 twin cam was howling along at 80 mph and 4000 rpm!! 

Did ye get a "job lot" on those lovely 13inch alloy wheels...? Great to see that the classic Fiat scene is so healthy in your part of the world.

[131R]

Kevin my very 1st car was a 124ST and I was mad about this little car.  My dad always had very boring cars. A few DKW's , Studebakers, Cortinas etc.  So when I got this ST I just could not keep my eyes of this revcounter. And then this car had a Twin Cam engine and disc brakes , 5 speed gearbox!!!!!!  Since then I always had Fiats.!

[mirko131]

Very nice cars , the condition is incredible 

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This 124ST belongs to my son Neil.  He turned 23 yesterday.  He loves his Fiat and only uses it on this occasions.  This car has never been restored or resprayed.  Looks new inside with no cracks on the dash.  Even still have the original 124ST thick chrome exhaust tail pipe.

[c.a.c131]

You have a good climate in South Africa for Fiat's not like here in Ireland, I have a 1977 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV that came out of Pretoria TP was the reg rust free. Were the Fiat's built in CKD form in South Africa ?

[bellamacchina]

Fantastic cars, really nice. 3 other 2 door 131s and for sure I love your Racing 131 Sport story. Different from here in Europe, very, very interesting. You see how great actually history of the 131 was isn't it?

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Are there anymore "normal"131 survivors in your beautiful country? Or do you know of  surviving Ford Perana's, 2nd generation BMW M5 and Alfa Romeo GTV 3.0? I am very interested what's al around!

Greetings from Holland!

[131R]

Hi, yes our 124ST was also bought in Pretoria, about 50km from where we live.
The FORD stand was right behind the FIAT stand and they had 2 Cortina Perana's and a V8 Capri Perana. I counted no less than 3 GTV 3ltr's at the Alfa Romeo stand. South Africa really has a rich history of unusual cars we produced ourselves!

[Gremlino]

Some sports model

Looks like a Fiat Osca 1500 by Farina  

[131R]

Fiats were fully manufactured in a car plant at Brits which is about 30 km from Pretoria.  In South Africa Fiats never rusted more than any other cars around,  In actual fact some other cars like early Toyotas and 5 series BMW's from the '70s rusted much more.  My sons 131 Racing and the 124ST is still rust free.  But I must also mention that my 130TC which was imported new from the UK in 1985 is also still rustfree.  Our climate are very kind to our classic cars where we live.  At the coast it is obviously the usual story as the cars rusts badly there.