Any Standard Fiat Strada's left?

[Burnside]

Anybody out there know of or have a standard Fiat Strada in the UK? My parents had a last of the line 1988 E reg Strada 70CL TEAM ltd Model in bianico white from around 1991-1997

an this car was the reason i got into Fiats. I'd love to get myself one but having no work or money would put any serious ideas of owning one at the moment out of my reach sadly.

Would like another in my lifetime at some point but would want a 1983 onwards shape. I know the odd 130TC appears on ebay now an then but there way off my budgets even

when i had work!

Would love to have are old car back but that would never happen as it was last taxed in 2000 according to the DVLA an it was looking tired when my dad traded it in. So very remote

chance of it being stored somewhere or even being saveble if it was i guess.

So if anybodys got one or knows of one whatever it's condition i'd love to know as if my circumstance ever changes i will have to seriously try an get one.

[TagoraSX]

Here's one.

 

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3350428

[pocket.calculator]

They turn up from time-to-time if you keep an eye on eBay and elsewhere. I saw a lovely-looking cabrio on there recently. There may be more Abarth TCs left than standards, and if they're in decent condition they usually command pretty solid prices. Italy is an obvious source if you can be bothered and don't mind LHD.

 

http://annunci.ebay.it/auto-e-moto/auto/fiat/ritmo/

 

trovit.it is also a decent source

 

http://auto.trovit.it/index.php/cod.sea ... t%20ritmo/

[Manbearpig]

Great looking car. Always preferred the bug-eyed look of the Ritmo to the slightly apologetic restyle on the later cars

[pompei]

Dare I even ask what that is over the vents on the interior shot??

[nigel bickle]

I've an 85cl in tatty condition, and a nice Mk1 in France. Regie Ritmo -of this parish has a UK MK1 with minor rear quarter damage.

[raggerminder]

We had one in hearing aid beige on a "X" plate in the early nineties. It was an incredibly practical car for someone with a young family, but it was incredibly slow and struggled with hills. When I sold it, I replaced it with a much older and cheaper Renault 16 - a truly fab car.

 

Rob

[pompei]

Two reasons why Stada/Ritmos are GR45437 :-

 

1. Licourice allsorts wheels,

 

2. Handmade by Robots ad.

 

I nearly bought a 105TC but was a few hundred quid short and ended up with a 127GT instead. That was a ace car too.

[trigger]

The last one i saw was this green one that i posted here that ended up on ebay, I don't know what it sold for though.

 

1981 Fiat Strada Ritmo 75 CL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1981 Fiat Strada Ritmo 75 CL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Coming to think about it, apart from a few 130TC's I haven't seen a normal facelift Strada for years!.

 

Fiat Range 1983 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Burnside]

Thank's everbody. It would seam there are very few if any standard Fiat Strada's are left in the UK sadly Regata's are the same too. Only fiat's that i seam to find are the odd

uno,tipo or panda. Even these are a very rare sight's sadly on the road's and the tipo's brother the tempra is even rarer still. I have looked on italian ebay before and punished

myself looking at some of the tidy examples over there thank's everbody for the link's from other sites made good reading.

 

I've an 85cl in tatty condition, and a nice Mk1 in France. Regie Ritmo -of this parish has a UK MK1 with minor rear quarter damage.

 

If you have a picture of your 85CL Nigel an you didn't mind putting on hear i'd love to see it! Am liking that Renault 9 Turbo i'd seen on hear recently that you brought

and your picture of your Fiat Croma. Your cars pretty much cover my wish list maybe one day i can own some of my favorite one's i hope.

 

The last one i saw was this green one that i posted here that ended up on ebay, I don't know what it sold for though.

 

 

1981 Fiat Strada Ritmo 75 CL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1981 Fiat Strada Ritmo 75 CL by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Coming to think about it, apart from a few 130TC's I haven't seen a normal facelift Strada for years!.

 

Fiat Range 1983 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

I'd watched that strada on ebay had a classified advert for £1795 i think? Sold pretty quickly though. The picture above is the shape of strada im more intrested in as it's similar to my dad's old one. Though we classed his as a mk3. The diffrence's from memory mainly being square door handles, plastic lower trim along the doors and front wings. Rear number plate mounted on the bumper instead of between the rear lights. And the real geeky one. The front grille doesn't have the grile slates on the outside edge of the grille on the main headlights. Earlier cars like the one pictured do an are car being a ltd edition had the deeper bumper that had the front foglamps like the 105/130TC and 85CL models.

[Mash]

I'd love a Mk1 Strada. This one was at Retro Rides at Prescott last year - really nice:

 

[Guest]

I like the "sod it" sticker alignment.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

HEY! i've got exactly that sticker on my Argenta!

[nigel bickle]

 

Only pics on this computer of the 85 & 105. Neither been in use for 2-3 years. 105 has suffered, 85 is fine

[chaseracer]

 

The Ritmo was further ahead of its time than we knew. These days, every car has huge lumps of impact-absorbing plastic at either end. Fiat did it in 1978...

[stuboy]

blimey not seen one in years

[Negative Creep]

 

The Ritmo was further ahead of its time than we knew. These days, every car has huge lumps of impact-absorbing plastic at either end. Fiat did it in 1978...

 

 

Indeed. It could have conceivably been released in 1988 and still looked pretty fresh

[Mash]

Here's another. I'm sure Reallyloud won't mind me borrowing his pic...

 

[trigger]

^ That looks beautiful in that pale blue!

[Burnside]

 

Only pics on this computer of the 85 & 105. Neither been in use for 2-3 years. 105 has suffered, 85 is fine

 

Thank's Nigel for sharing blimey a 85CL and a 105TC that's good going. Good to see there at least one standard UK later shape Strada left and the 105TC

isn't seen much etheir. Did seen one last year for 1st time in years though at a autoitalia event the guy had a low millage metalic grey one a

Breg i think and he has a 130 TC in red too that was featured in a buying guide in practical classics a few years back which i have a copy off.

I know it's unlikely Nigel but if you ever wish to part with etheir and i can get some work sorted i'd be very intrested.

 

I'd love a Mk1 Strada. This one was at Retro Rides at Prescott last year - really nice:

 

 

Great pictures of a MK1! I'd used to see a MK1 Strada similar to this when i was kid when we had are strada. I used to always look out for it and weridly

the registration had the 1st three letters as are later Strada registration ending. Are car was E139JAY an that one was JAY***Y. I remenber it got progressly

rougher over the years and the last time i saw it the doors and sills were badly rusted. Guess it ended up in th Fiat dealer in the sky but was the only MK1 i

used to see when growing up. It seam's funny to me people have manged to find pictures of suriving standard MK1's easier than a MK2/3 Stradas that my dad had.

Good to see both though of course just if i can have the chance of owning a Strada at some point i want it to be a later car like my dads was.

Hopefully one day i can make it happen and i'll be sure to share it on hear if i do.

[trigger]

I found myself staring at this 105 for a long while at Bromley last year.

 

1982 Fiat Strada 105TC by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1982 Fiat Strada 105TC by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Mash]

Beautiful! I think it was at the NEC a couple of years ago too.

 

It is odd that the Mk1s seem to be more common but I wonder if that's because it's the version most people want to preserve? I know I'd want the early version.

 

Let's have a few more Mk1s

 

[wackywacerwill]

Apart from the dark blue one at Prescott I ain't seen one in years. Many cars I now love for their shiteyness I used to despise though these fall into the always would category.

Check this badboy

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I think the MK1s are fantastic looking cars, but that asymmetric grille makes me twitch. Something Fiat repeated on the Cinquecento.

 

e: And the new Uno, and the original Panda! But those didn't bother me.

[Burnside]

I found myself staring at this 105 for a long while at Bromley last year.

 

 

I'd seen this very 105TC i think a good while back at a autoitalia event at Gaydon think it was around 6 years ago or more when it had just been restored i think.

Is a A1 motor and the only MK1 105TC ive seen. I remenber the owner talking to some guy about the diffrence between the screenwasher bottle on a MK1/MK2 Strada!

 

Beautiful! I think it was at the NEC a couple of years ago too.

 

It is odd that the Mk1s seem to be more common but I wonder if that's because it's the version most people want to preserve? I know I'd want the early version.

 

Let's have a few more Mk1s

 

You could be right there with the orignal MK1's being prefered to the later cars and im all for more MK1 Strada's of course. Bar the 130TC there does seam very few

standard MK2 Strada's left and i think that's a shame really as there just as good as the orignal cars in my view and of course i have alot of found memories from my

childhood of are car. An as i said it was that car that got me into italian cars or otherwise i'd ended up being etheir a die hard ford or vauxhall fan nothing wrong with

that of course but i doubt i'd have owend 4 Fiat Uno MK1's including the one i share with my brother now .

A Fiat Tipo 1.4 DGT and a Fiat 126 FSM an a Fiat Fiorino before i was old enough to drive if it wasn't for my parents buying that Strada all them years ago.

I wasn't keen on it to start with as they traded in are Vauxhall Chevette estate for it at the time but it soon won me over and i begged them to keep it for me when i was

old enough to drive when they traded it in but it sadly wasn't ment to be. So i've got unfinshed business with Stradas so i hope to put that right at some point and must

get another early Tipo too at some point for the same reason.

[fordpoplier]

My first car in the UK was a 1979 65CL, have fond memories of EBY 582T despite it's rust. Us septics got them too and there was even an electric conversion similar to the R5 one.

[Madman Of The People]

 

The Ritmo was further ahead of its time than we knew. These days, every car has huge lumps of impact-absorbing plastic at either end. Fiat did it in 1978...

 

 

You want impact absorbtion? Check out the US spec Strada bumpers!

 

 

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[Ross_K]

Here's one.

 

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3350428

 

The Virgin Mary holy water bottle is a nice period piece...

 

 

Dare I even ask what that is over the vents on the interior shot??

 

See above.

[RobT]

^^^Wouldn't fancy driving one a long distance looking at that pedal offset...

[fordpoplier]

That little switch at the bottom of the radio allowed it to be popped out and stuck in the glove box which seemed very fancy to me at the time (well, I was only 17).