Fiat 130 spotted

[mattblack]

On my way home from work tonight. Comming towards me, 'L' plate, pressed ali plates, patchy silver paint. I was too busy being gobsmacked to notice if it was a saloon or coupe...

[trigger]

Last week i saw someone driving through Ipswich in a old black Fiat 127 Sport, I nearly crashed my Opel excitement!

[Alexg]

I saw a beige Talbot Samba on the way to work today... I got over excited and gave a massive thumbs-up. He didn't see me...

[MrRegieRitmo]

Comming towards me, 'L' plate, pressed ali plates, patchy silver paint.

Someone is learning to drive in style!!

[Formula Autos]

If it was a saloon there's a chance it could have been Martin Buckley from Classic and Sports Car driving it. He seems to hoover up any of 130s that come into his orbit, and/or any RO80s as well, from what he says in his column.

 

In fact, Buckley seems to be a closet shiter who's slipped in under the Mag's radar - he always seems to have some Italian or German shite on the go, albeit in barge or GT form. His column's the first thing I read when the mag arrives through the letterbox.

 

The saloon and coupe are very different (styling wise), which was it you saw, mattblack*?

 

 

 

 

 

*Images shamelessly plundered from Google images. I know there's someone on here who, for some reason, attacks me for doing this. My thinking is why make life hard for yourself? It's an efficient way of finding the images you want. After all, you wouldn't wait until Beaulieu autojumble to buy vital parts for your car if you could get them at your nearest Halfords, would you?

[Station]

That's quite snappy looking!

[MrRegieRitmo]

*Images shamelessly plundered from Google images. I know there's someone on here who, for some reason, attacks me for doing this. My thinking is why make life hard for yourself? It's an efficient way of finding the images you want. After all, you wouldn't wait until Beaulieu autojumble to buy vital parts for your car if you could get them at your nearest Halfords, would you?

[MrRegieRitmo]

That's quite snappy looking!

I'd be more impressed if it was a saloon you saw. The coupes, nice as they are, often turn up at shows. The black saloon I saw at Bromley in 2009 was the first time I'd seen one in the flesh!

[pogweasel]

Didn't Buckley trade a 130 with Mr_Bo11?

 

Also, if you haven't read Buckley's column from last month re. the "Plutocrat Executive", I suggest tracking it down. It's 100% autoshite, right down to the pub-landlords.

[Formula Autos]

Didn't Buckley trade a 130 with Mr_Bo11?

 

Also, if you haven't read Buckley's column from last month re. the "Plutocrat Executive", I suggest tracking it down. It's 100% autoshite, right down to the pub-landlords.

Nearly all of Buckley's columns are great. I aspire to his lifestyle of wafting around in shitty motors, chosen from a collection of such things in an old mill. The mill also serving as a great workshop for tinkering with shite in. All funded by waffling on entertainingly about cars. The man's near God-like.

 

The columns would make a great book, which would be far superior than any collections of columns written by Top Gear presenters (James May's being the best of a bad bunch and OK - not great, but OK). Trouble is, the name Martin Buckley wouldn't shift many copies. More's the pity.

[mattblack]

Comming towards me, 'L' plate, pressed ali plates, patchy silver paint.

Someone is learning to drive in style!!

Sorry, 'L' as in Reg letter...

 

Pretty sure it was coupe now, looking at those pictures.

[carlo]

Didn't Buckley trade a 130 with Mr_Bo11?

 

Also, if you haven't read Buckley's column from last month re. the "Plutocrat Executive", I suggest tracking it down. It's 100% autoshite, right down to the pub-landlords.

I read that latest article and must admit it went right over my head. Thought he was a getting a bit desperate for material that week actually.

[barrett]

He did a good article on big barges this month. Has anyone ever pointed him in the direction of this site?

Ever since he did that article years ago about all the old rammle he'd owned over the years he has been my motoring hero, although he has an irrational hatred of Japanese cars which doesn't sit well with me.

[Pete-M]

I can't abide 99% of what Buckley writes as it tends to be utter, utter bollocks.

 

Doesn't seem to matter what the cars in question are, if there's an acknowledged masterpiece and some piece of obscure, badly engineered, rusty tat that sold less than 50 in a 40 year production run, Buckley will vote for the shite and claim that anyone who doesn't is somehow some sort of mentally destable sheep.

 

He's like a Manc version of Russell Bulgin, without the humour.

 

He's had very few nice motors, I liked his P5B and I admire his courage for taking on the Lagonda.

 

Then you look at the shit he's had. Daimler SP? C'mon, they're bollocks and always were. Merc W123 230TE? The 280 exists for a reason - it's because the 230 is crap.

 

So yeah, he champions shite. Which isn't a bad trait. Unfortunately, he also does group tests and tries to convince the world that some of the greatest cars ever built are in fact shitters, and that his particular flavour of shite is better.

 

It isn't. It's shite. Love it all you like, but don't try and tell me that a Lancia Gamma Coupé is a good car. It never was. It's a pretty car, but that doesn't make it some sort of misunderstood masterpiece.

[messerschmitt owner]

Buckley lives close to me - and I think his current 130 coupe is a silver one on french plates! 718 PB 33