WHAT IS IT? (My garage / Barn Find)

I'd be interested in it if you decide to pass..where is it located? The truck next to it says MA, is that right? And it looks like a MA sticker on the windshield,you can email me through here with the info.

alfadriver wrote: Fiat people are cool, too.

They're all just being nice to you because they think you might take their Fiat.

JThw8 wrote: Yeah the engine turns opposite of a VW so I guess thats CCW. To do the VW swap you usually need to use the VW transaxle too, dunno if you can swap the fiat trans around like the VW one to run work in the opposite rotation or not.

Or stick one of the zillions of Honda motors on the stock transaxle.

I think I have an engine block and head

Karl La Follette wrote: I think I have an engine block and head

Dang, Karl...is there anything you don't have on that place of yours?

If I ever get down your way, I'll give you five bucks just to walk through and look around.

I know a guy that did a porsche 914 engine swap. pretty simple. Never thought about the honda engine though. Hmmmm! If we are going that far how about a Hayabusa powerplant? Then I wouldn't have to do it to my '53 Renault! (I think it's even rustier than a Fiat!)

I had one as my first car. Fun when I was 14! Very rusty, always ran great. Nothing electrical worked. Best was my dad dug through all the alternators at Farm and Fleet to find one that was "close enough" to work, cost $35 and bolted in. Better than what Bruce's Parts Bin wanted for one.

There used to be a junkyard near my old house in Whitewater, WI that must have had 10 of the little buggers, including two of the glassed in headlight versions. All were completely rusted in half. Like you could lift the front half separate from the back half. Another junkyard in East Troy has a bunch of the coupes, 4 or 5, sitting inside a pole barn in decent shape when I was there 10 years ago.

Looks like a great candidate for the S2000 motor

93gsxturbo wrote: Another junkyard in East Troy has a bunch of the coupes, 4 or 5, sitting inside a pole barn in decent shape when I was there 10 years ago.

Ahh, 850 Coupes are another under-appreciated iron oxide bomb.

Mr. Abarth did seem to like them, though.

I would love me an 850 coupe'

93gsxturbo wrote: I had one as my first car. Fun when I was 14! Very rusty, always ran great. Nothing electrical worked. Best was my dad dug through all the alternators at Farm and Fleet to find one that was "close enough" to work, cost $35 and bolted in. Better than what Bruce's Parts Bin wanted for one. There used to be a junkyard near my old house in Whitewater, WI that must have had 10 of the little buggers, including two of the glassed in headlight versions. All were completely rusted in half. Like you could lift the front half separate from the back half. Another junkyard in East Troy has a bunch of the coupes, 4 or 5, sitting inside a pole barn in decent shape when I was there 10 years ago.

Oh my God! Went to school in Whitewater(for a semester)! If one of those in the junkyard was green with "turbine" wheels and a roll bar, it's my old car. No I'm not going to pay a million dollars to have it back! It did have a bad ass cam in it though!

mad_machine wrote: I would love me an 850 coupe'

I just bought one Neener neener

What ever happened to this?

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/small-bore-cars-are-great/21428/page1/

Didn't we go through this not too long ago?

I meant the abandoned one in the parking garage. Oh, screw it, it's probably rusted in half since March anyway!

I didn't see the post the first time around... but the oriignal post was made on the 45th anniversary of the first unveiling of the 850 Spyder at the 1965 Geneva Auto Show... the designer (Giorgetto Giugiaro) and unveiling were delayed until the afternoon as his first son was born that morning. And 4500 miles away, I was being born as the car was unveiled...

Yes, I've owned one (95% rust free even!), but am in the market for an early covered headlamp model...