fiat x19...my baby ferrari

[niva441]

Sounds just like a Ferrari, lots of sensations, unfortunately not all of them positive.

[Mutant Rat]

Must be something about X1/9's and illicit liaisons.

My first 2-seater was an X1/9 and I'd taken a female friend from school, recently married (at 18! ), out one evening. After parking up for a quiet chat about old times, started the car up to drive her home before hubby got back and the temperature went off the scale...bloody thing had thrown its fanbelt.

Long walk to phonebox to call a taxi(pre-mobile era, obviously), and managed to deliver the lady in question back to her worried husband about 2am. :O

Car blew its head gasket a few days later, presumably as a result of the overheating.

You'd have thought that Italian cars would be a bit more tolerant of occasional sexual adventures, wouldn't you?


>> Edited by Mutant Rat on Sunday 24th July 14:59

[pneumothorax]

tbere definitely was something about those cars and liason dangereux....i think it is the ferrari queues from the sexy bodywork, i even convinved one lucky lady that it was a ferrari....she even told her dad....of course he pi****d his pants when he finally got to see it...

[mickyveloce]

I love these cars . Recently bought and sold an 83 in typically 70`s gold with cream leatherette. Magic little car and a genuine superb design from which FIAT fell out of love and failed to develop . Early 1.3 lidos with white suede trim are starting to get a following !

[lanciachris]

I wish my neighbour had had the good sense to buy mine (solid as a rock, fresh mot, last of the line grand finale with a ragged interior). Instead he still has his, which is a quite rusty and battered y reg that will need extensive work to make right.