Fiat Restoration

[Jeff Johnston]

I got this a while back and painted it like my first car....I recently have decided to stip off the TEstores Enamel paint and do it over. Here is the progress so far.

This is the 1/20 scale Bandai kit with the engine. I also have a curbside Bandia kit for "someday"....

Started like this.

Now it looks like this.

[MrObsessive]

Wow! That's a long lost car! I can't remember the last time I've seen one of those on the road. I gotta see what you're gonna do with that Fiat Jeff!

What color did you have in mind? That green looks to be one of the colors they came in back then.

I once owned a '78 124 Spyder..........it ran really well until one day it threw a timing belt------something Fiat's were notorious for back in those days.

[Jeff Johnston]

Yes Bill this is a long lost one LOL..and i have another one completely unbuilt !

I am still deciding on color. I never liked the stock "sub-lime"ish" color of the early X 1/9's.

I bought a 74' in April 1982. The brown car is exactly my car. I also threw a timing belt !! Actually...it was a water pump belt. The water pump and timing belts drove off the same belt wheel...so when the water pump belt broke, it got under the timing belt and flipped it off...

Since it was an overhead cam....the valves stopped but the pistons did not...and yes the pistons whacked up into the valves on 2 cylinders, and I had no compression. 500 bucks and 2 months later it was fixed, with a rebuilt head...at 17 it took a while to earn 500 bucks LOL

I am told that the later year fiat's put indentations in the pistons to prevent whacking into the valves...I guess that was easier than fixing the real problem LOL

I think I will paint blood red, or a deep maroon. We'll see what strikes me at the time.

[ramonesblues]

Yes Bill this is a long lost one LOL..and i have another one completely unbuilt !

I am still deciding on color. I never liked the stock "sub-lime"ish" color of the early X 1/9's.

I bought a 74' in April 1982. The brown car is exactly my car. I also threw a timing belt !! Actually...it was a water pump belt. The water pump and timing belts drove off the same belt wheel...so when the water pump belt broke, it got under the timing belt and flipped it off...

Since it was an overhead cam....the valves stopped but the pistons did not...and yes the pistons whacked up into the valves on 2 cylinders, and I had no compression. 500 bucks and 2 months later it was fixed, with a rebuilt head...at 17 it took a while to earn 500 bucks LOL

I am told that the later year fiat's put indentations in the pistons to prevent whacking into the valves...I guess that was easier than fixing the real problem LOL

I think I will paint blood red, or a deep maroon. We'll see what strikes me at the time.

Fix It Again Tony!