Blue 850

A few I picked up at the same toy fair as Junkyardog. Some little Fiats for my collection nd the Mk2 for my brother. Bonus buy was the 2 rare Irish car mags from 1963,

Built by a bloke called Mervyn in Weston Super Mare

Useless Ibiza fact, in the carpark scene with the BMW 7 series in the Tomorrow Never Dies Bond movie, in one shot there is a red Mk1 Ibiza on Fiat X1/9 alloys

I don't know if Seat did it any different to Fiat, but if it starts to give symptoms of a dodgy fuel pump, it probably won't be the pump itself, there's a pin that hits the cam on the pump which is made of softer metal than the pump and it wears, the 903 Unos were b@stards for this when I worked in a Fiat dealers back in the 90s

Irish spec, we were lucky to get the passenger door 😁

Probably the best one left? 14,300 miles from new

Yugo 45s, Autobianchi A112s , and about 3 million Fiat 127s. They were also in the rear of the Fiat 850 but run anticlockwise, and the engine was originally designed for the 600 of 1955, the 899 in the Cinquecento is basically the same unit

This is probably the most well known 504 in Ireland. Converted from a new 1.8 petrol estate to a hearse and kept in perfect running order after it was retired from "active duty" It stayed with the undertaker until his death and is now owned by a collector in Kerry who uses it sparingly for shows, and was used recently for a funeral of a man who had owned a Peugeot dealership in the 70s

Not stolen, both designed by Michelotti, but he didn't start with a blank canvas when doing the Hino 😉

£10k is just over €11k, so I'd haggle this one down from €12k asking price , and buy an original chrome grill. It doesn't need any else it's an Integrale with 340bhp 😁

Popped into a local model shop and picked up these 2 for €5. Mutipla by Solido

A few more I picked up today. I actually collect old Irish car mags but have small collection of model Fiats and the 1500 is really nice. The Kadett will probably go to my brother as he has a full size one, a Rallye the lucky git

2 from the €1 tray at a model fair today. The Miura was crying out for rescue as it had an orange bulldozer pushing it off the tray 😄

Fiat predicting what it would become, a 127 Rustica

A Dublin reg 14 was on the front cover of Auto Ireland , however the car is lhd and the reg belongs to a Renault 12, legend has it someone from the Irish distributor attending the press launch in France fitted the plates to use for advertising back in Ireland