so a couple of weekends back I took a road trip to the Bay Area with my friend to buy Chris Saul's 124 wagon. We had a great, relaxing if short visit to SF and got to see Chris for a bit which is always nice. Fro Lada power I ordered a mess of parts including the sheetmetal needed to get a very straight, highly rust free body which I plan to drop a 2 liter plus an auto trans I've sourced from John Erskine.
The car came with a rebuilt Lada 5 speed which I originally planned to use but with my tendonitis I think having one Fiat that was an auto trans would be nice and Id rather drive an auto wagon than an auto spider...
I am pretty excited about restoring this (hoping 1.5 years) and have gotten off to a slow, if Zen like start. then
...it pours
so last Tuesday a friend of mine tells me his company has been tasked with clearing out a storage unit and there is a vintage fiat wagon in there...at first i thought, nah, must be a volvo or a datsun (still would have been cool) so i reach out to the owner.
I feel like I'm dreaming. This 1967 1100R wagon, under about 1/8" of dust, looks new. NEW. Well, as new as a 50 year old car that has been in a storage locker since 2008 can look. The stock wheels/hub caps are as perfect as the rest but the tires had rotted off so we put my friends spares on there to roll her out. My wife is sooooooo happy. This is her car and she has named her Rose.
The car came with a rebuilt Lada 5 speed which I originally planned to use but with my tendonitis I think having one Fiat that was an auto trans would be nice and Id rather drive an auto wagon than an auto spider...
I am pretty excited about restoring this (hoping 1.5 years) and have gotten off to a slow, if Zen like start. then
...it pours
so last Tuesday a friend of mine tells me his company has been tasked with clearing out a storage unit and there is a vintage fiat wagon in there...at first i thought, nah, must be a volvo or a datsun (still would have been cool) so i reach out to the owner.
I feel like I'm dreaming. This 1967 1100R wagon, under about 1/8" of dust, looks new. NEW. Well, as new as a 50 year old car that has been in a storage locker since 2008 can look. The stock wheels/hub caps are as perfect as the rest but the tires had rotted off so we put my friends spares on there to roll her out. My wife is sooooooo happy. This is her car and she has named her Rose.