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Title: old build from a few years back Post by: daverwd on August 14, 2011, 07:57:41 PM .
Title: Re: old build from a few years back Post by: daverwd on August 14, 2011, 08:27:30 PM top pic is of replica i built years back , it now sits in willie's garage ..
but this is the earliest pic of it i have .. it was only a week old and i drove it to donegal for a weekend .. it has the wrong grill which i didn't source till later in the cars life.. the pic of the 4 door series 3 supermirafiori is of my dad's car.. reg.VSI 355 .. anyone know where it is now? Title: Re: old build from a few years back Post by: kev131 on August 14, 2011, 09:07:54 PM Good to see you postings pics Dave. :D
The white one brings back happy memories of driving the car down around your back roads. Good that it still remains in enthusiast hands and in Ireland. I never knew that your dad had a 131 - I guess that's where a lot of us (younger ones) got our love for the car from! ;) I've also never seen an Irish car in the bronze metallic colour - The colour used for the official Fiat brochure for the series 3. Great colour in the metal. :) Title: Re: old build from a few years back Post by: daverwd on August 14, 2011, 10:32:23 PM yeah it was the brochure colour ..it got a new drivers door moulding as it got a heavy scuff on it and it was always a shade out in colour as you can see in pic ..i didn't think the bronze was that rare a colour ..
this car was only 7 months old when he bought it off an italian guy running a chippers in thomas street dublin.. dad had 2 131 supermirafiori's before this one .. dad always claimed this car was never as fast on the acceleration as the previous 2000tc 131 he had ..as his previous car i think had a head from a 1600tc on a 2000 block & a rear diff from a 131 estate car .. great acceleration but flat out a 100mph.. |