After 38 years I finally own a Spider. Back in 1970 my wife and I looked at buying a '68 124 Sport Spider, as they were called back then. We fell in love with the car but the owner owed much more than the bank said it was worth so we couldn't get it financed. We liked the car so much we went to a dealer and looked at buying a new one. While looking at the cars we decided on a blue Sport Coupe instead. A couple of reasons, one being that it was $200 less, $3200 vs. $3400 and the other one was we liked to take friends along with us from time to time. As it turned out we made a good choice because we started a family a bit sooner then we had planned. When the army sent me to Germany in '73 we had to sell it to pay for my wife and son to join me there. I really hated selling that car.
We drove it from California to Massachusetts with everything we owned in it and then back to Cal a year later this time with a new passenger. THAT was a pack job!
So anyway we decided to look for a small car to drive to work instead of our Tundra, what with gas being what it is and when the wife spotted a Spider in the paper I just had to have it.
The best part is it's in pretty good shape.
It needs some work but nothing major. I can't wait to get it on the road.
Details: 1980 Fiat Spider 2000
Carburetor
68000 miles
current color is bright yellow (rattle can) originally Avorio (?)
