Tempted to take this on!!

[xkjagnz]

Fortunately it is

a) too far away (Wellington)

the wife has said I'm not allowed too

 

[HillmanImp]

Simple solution.

 

Get a new wife. You'll be beating them off with a shitty stick when you're rolling around in that bad muthafucka.

[sutty2006]

That looks miserable. Get it bought

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The back end looks like it should be the front.

[xkjagnz]

Simple solution.

Get a new wife. You'll be beating them off with a shitty stick when you're rolling around in that bad muthafucka.

I'm on my third already, and I quite like the house! (And her obviously, sorry Mrs XK!!)

[HMC]

Y Tho

 

[eddyramrod]

Can you weld?

 

Yes = GIB

No = run away!

[Parky]

Mrs P is going to Wellington in November. Get it bought and I will ask her to drive it back!

[xkjagnz]

Can you weld?

 

Yes = GIB

No = run away!

Yes I can (ex nuclear welder)

Do I want to ...eeeeerrrrrrmmm

[garbaldy]

Yes I can (ex nuclear welder)

Do I want to ...eeeeerrrrrrmmm

 

Of course you do.

[mercrocker]

I'd have one of those just for the steering column.   

[The Moog]

You don't come round here waving stuff like that unless you want to buy it...

 

So on behalf of the strange people on the internet - have you bought it yet?

[DoctorRetro]

How about now?

[JimH]

The Fiat 600 Multipla makes me sad. It makes me sad for what we have lost.

 

Just look at it. There is so little of it that it may as well not be there. There is virtually nothing by way of an engine and little cluttering up the interior yet this automotive breath of wind can shift six people. Or it can shift four people while the fifth one has a bit of a kip. Maybe you have some really big people to transport? Fold down the middle row of seats and you've got more legroom than a Maybach. I am told that cars need to be more sustainable. While the definition of what sustainable is seems to get a bit hazy you can't help but feel that a car that uses almost nothing in its construction must be somewhat more sustainable than anything else that can shift six people. 

 

Now imagine today's 600 Multipla. Imagine that turbo charged twin cylinder engine coupled to a CVT box. Imagine those seats designed with the last five decades of knowledge and imagine how much lighter that nearly not there body would be. Oh happy days.

 

Now what do I hear? The wailing and gnashing of teeth. The cries of those driving themselves demented with fear. But but but look at it. What if I were to crash? We'd all be killed in our (surprisingly roomy) beds. This will never do. It must be bigger, heavier, safer. And the poor girl in her pastel summer dress is force fed until it turns into a Nissan Cashcow in dull metallic grey frump.

 

I know that Pandora's box of ill-founded safety concerns was opened long ago and it isn't going to be shut again but you can still long for a slightly different world where anyone who whined that a car might be dangerous to crash had their licence taken off them because they were clearly incompetent. Oh the aluminium alloy Minis we would have. The carbon fibre S800s. What a wonderful world that would have been.

[JimH]

I'd not noticed this before. Look at the unbelievably neat way that the front and rear doors share a hinge.

 

[motorpunk]

These are ace. I chatted with an owner at the Revival. The shell could be dipped I guess to give a good start for a resto and 500 bits are plentiful. Trim might be hard to replace but there’s not much of it. I can see this going for £10k ish and someone doing a pro resto.

[Kringle]

I shared your utopia in my minds eye for just a minute there JimH. It was a wonderful place, thanks.

[LightBulbFun]

The Fiat 600 Multipla makes me sad. It makes me sad for what we have lost.

 

Just look at it. There is so little of it that it may as well not be there. There is virtually nothing by way of an engine and little cluttering up the interior yet this automotive breath of wind can shift six people. Or it can shift four people while the fifth one has a bit of a kip. Maybe you have some really big people to transport? Fold down the middle row of seats and you've got more legroom than a Maybach. I am told that cars need to be more sustainable. While the definition of what sustainable is seems to get a bit hazy you can't help but feel that a car that uses almost nothing in its construction must be somewhat more sustainable than anything else that can shift six people. 

 

Now imagine today's 600 Multipla. Imagine that turbo charged twin cylinder engine coupled to a CVT box. Imagine those seats designed with the last five decades of knowledge and imagine how much lighter that nearly not there body would be. Oh happy days.

 

Now what do I hear? The wailing and gnashing of teeth. The cries of those driving themselves demented with fear. But but but look at it. What if I were to crash? We'd all be killed in our (surprisingly roomy) beds. This will never do. It must be bigger, heavier, safer. And the poor girl in her pastel summer dress is force fed until it turns into a Nissan Cashcow in dull metallic grey frump.

 

I know that Pandora's box of ill-founded safety concerns was opened long ago and it isn't going to be shut again but you can still long for a slightly different world where anyone who whined that a car might be dangerous to crash had their licence taken off them because they were clearly incompetent. Oh the aluminium alloy Minis we would have. The carbon fibre S800s. What a wonderful world that would have been.

 

 

well said

 

i too have often wondered what cars would look like today if they where not hampered by a million and one safety and emission regs

 

(im not saying those regs are good or bad, but I do wonder how cars would be without them)

[eddyramrod]

That Multipla was family transport, in an era when this was the future...

Old as I now am, I still wasn't born when these were possible.  Neither would be now, in the "Future" and that is a damned shame.

[Wingz123]

These are ace. I chatted with an owner at the Revival. The shell could be dipped I guess to give a good start for a resto and 500 bits are plentiful. Trim might be hard to replace but there’s not much of it. I can see this going for £10k ish and someone doing a pro resto.

I can recommend a very good place for dipping in Dudley. SPL they are called - taken many a car...well erm shell to them...

[hairnet]

this is rusty compared to a jag?

 

*runs

[RayMK]

These are ace. I chatted with an owner at the Revival. The shell could be dipped I guess to give a good start for a resto and 500 bits are plentiful. Trim might be hard to replace but there’s not much of it. I can see this going for £10k ish and someone doing a pro resto.

 

500 bits are plentiful but the Multipla is based on the 600. Probably fairly easy to find bits in Europe. A rusty Fiat must be at least as challenging as a rusty Austin 1100.  As you said, £10K+ will be the result if someone takes it on.  I hope someone does.

[motorpunk]

Interesting that such a low reserve was set. I’d honestly be tempted to have a punt at £2k-£3k and worry about collection and shipping later. I have a farmer friend in NZ who could probably help. I have a ‘72 Fiat 500 already at home and love the thing. I can honestly see it going for £5k-£10k though.

[xkjagnz]

I can recommend a very good place for dipping in Dudley. SPL they are called - taken many a car...well erm shell to them...

Bit far from Wellington New Zealand though!!!

[shedenvy]

JimH,

 

Beautifully put.  As someone who works for a major OEM, it becomes quite a conflict of conscience when your own desires/opinions are so far away from your employers products.

 

As for this heap, buy it just to have, it looks handsome just as it is.

[Kringle]

Yes! As a design piece, a work of art. It doesn't need to be restored to drive. GIB and do not paint.

[Mrs6C]

I would love one of these. If you have the opportunity to buy it, do!

[xkjagnz]

Sold for $9151 NZ