Fiat 128

[pocket.calculator]

Sorry to bang on, but here's my other piece of shite. 1974 128 1100 Special. Original unrestored, 75k kms.

 

 

 

[RedSparrow]

That is awesome!

Welcome!

[Mr H Sceptre]

Ooooof! What a honey!!

[retrogeezer]

Get your coat love, you've pulled!

[Ross_K]

Swe-eeeet!

[eddyramrod]

Don't apologise!

[wuvvum]

I don't think posting pictures of clean '70s Fiats will ever be classed as "banging on" on this forum. As long as you don't start three separate threads asking if anyone has seen any M, N or P reg 128s recently, you should be fine.

[M'coli]

Huh? That's unrestored? Where the hell has that been kept to stop it rusting???

[blguy1975]

I am nursing a semi

[DSdriver]

It looks like the photos were taken in 1975. Well done for keeping it so pristine... any tips you'd like to pass on?

[KruJoe]

'Bang on'? Get outta here. Not literally. You can stick around with chod like this; it's lush. Pretty colour too.

[Pete-M]

[pocket.calculator]

Ta for the comments. The car came in to the UK in 2000, bought by a London DS dealer at an autojumble at Imola. It had been owned by the same guy from new, who appears to have used it about once a week and it had only 65k kms on it. It still has factory stickers and labels even now.

 

I bought it for my then-wife after seeing it in a 'Driving our ads' feature in Classic Cars mag. I had it Waxoyled right away and She used it as a daily for about three years, then needed something bigger and we'd nowhere to keep it. I sold it to a bloke who sources film and TV props and always regretted having to part with it. In 2009, I found it for sale in Ireland and went over and got it - the vendor had three warehouses full of amazing classics - 500, 1000 and 131 Abarths, 131 coupe, 128 rally, 132s, three Cortina Lotuses, rally-prepped Anglias and an ex-royal Tickford Granda estate, amongst many others.

 

The 128 looks amazing from 10 feet, but it's got wee a bit of bubbling round the edges. I use it as a daily in Summer and store it in Winter, so it'll get a few more years without falling apart. It's never (for me) failed an MOT or broken down. Miracles.

[trigger]

Hey that's stunning! funny enough i saw one of these rotting away in a garden in Colchester today, there was hardly anything left of it though.

[Wilko220]

That is very nice. Qual interior as well - love those vents on the top of the dash!

[boobydoo]

I really, really like that.

 

What I like best is that silver grille with square lights was only on 128s for a relatively short time. Colour is nice aswell.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

I sold it to a bloke who sources film and TV props and always regretted having to part with it.

 

Gr8 looking 70s motors those and iirc they were car of the year?. Was it used in much telly or movies?

[Cavcraft]

That's just utterly fantastic!

[Skizzer]

Holy cow! Great car, and I love the 'missed it so I bought it back' story. Winner all round

[theorganist]

That is one lovely motor, nice one!

[Mash]

Lovely! Welcome aboard

[Split_Pin]

Wow that's a beauty!

 

I've seen a few promo pictures of Fiats from that era with XGF numberplates, I wonder who the first owner was?

[pocket.calculator]

Wow that's a beauty!

 

I've seen a few promo pictures of Fiats from that era with XGF numberplates, I wonder who the first owner was?

XGF seems to be a DVLA plate for imported vehicles, I think. The Volksworld Fridolin is on XGF 258M and there's a W123 Merc in Maida Vale on XGF ---M, too.

 

 

Having said that, my van got BLK 156S. I tried to sell it on but no black Alfa 156 Sport owners were biting.

[outlaw118]

That is LUSH.

 

I seem to be developing a "thing" for old Fiats. That is GR1876293056392047.

[Shep Shepherd]

Very cool

 

A school friend's father had a 128 the same age as yours in a particularly eye-popping shade of bright yellow in the early 1990s, which he used a daily driver in order to keep his 1984 Granada Ghia X estate pristine. It was universally known as "Gazza's Flying Banana"

[Barry Cade]

 

 

NIIIIICE

[Spiny Norman]

That IS lush!

 

I love these wee Fiats, one of the best engines ever fitted to anything ever IMHO.

Here's a couple of snaps of the one I had, looking a lot less rusty than it actually was.

 

 

And an arty shot of the bonnet with bonus Renault 4 sticking out from behind the house.

 

[dollywobbler]

Fabulous stuff!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey wow, I remember this from the ‘driving our ads’ thing in PC, it looked like a total museum piece. Mega props to you for driving it everyday. I would go into spasms if i came up beside that in a rush-hour traffic jam, its beautiful!

[YugoLada]

Sorry to bang on, but here's my other piece of shite. 1974 128 1100 Special. Original unrestored, 75k kms.

 

 

 

That's lovely