pre production 131 Racings

[bellamacchina]

While searching in old magazines I came across thes pictures. I putted them in following order. Enjoy watching the pictures closely, nice detaildifferences!
These pictures are from february 1978 and show an orange-red car and it looks like the wheelarches are in the metal-like the wings are different but it can be also mounted on

[bellamacchina]

April 1978 shows a grey production Racing with other wheels. Nice to see the sticker on the backwindow, it shows with pride the Rally Championshipwin!

[bellamacchina]

Curiously May 1978 show the car in white with white wheelarches. A close look at the pictures show that the arches are fitted on as in the productionversion but they are also white where the bumpers are black. See also the black frontscreen surrounding where the rearwindowsurrounding shows the chrome stripe. Also the door doesn't have the black around the windows but it shows bodycolour and a chrome stripe.

[bellamacchina]

June 1978 shows the productionversion with other wheels. It seems like the same car as showed in the april edition.

[kev131]

Fantastic pics - Never seen these before - Albert you have a treasure trove of material!! 

Wonder what happened to these cars? Maybe they were converted to the ultimate Sport spec and then sold?? 

[Gremlino]

Or perhaps they were just tested to destruction and then processed to recycle  .