Purchased a Fiat 124 2000 Year 1982.

[JoeUK124]

Hi All,

I have just purchased a Fiat 124 Spider 1982 from the US. Car was based in Washington DC and is in very good condition for the year. Was a one owner car with only 60K miles on the clock. Recently attended the Auto Italia 2019 Day at Brooklands in the UK and it was only one of 6 124's on show.

Looking forward to enjoying the car and the forum. A website I am going to use for parts is www.spider-point.com based in Germany, they seem to have all the parts.

Thanks, Joe

[spider2081]

sounds great and welcome to Fiatspider.com Enjoy your new car.

[18Fiatsandcounting]

Welcome, and it's good to hear your experience with your Fiat from "across the pond."

-Bryan

[JoeUK124]

Thanks Bryan,

I have been after a 124 for 20 years and seen a great number in the UK which are US Imports. I intend to use it a great deal. It is one on only 2 1982 Spiders registered on the road in the UK. It certainly attracts attention as they are very rare on the roads here. Being LHD is a RHD country is not as bad as it sounds and have purchased a RHD wing mirror from Spider Point to help. If you have any good US 124 parts places I would appreciate the links.

Thanks, Joe

[rdv]

Hi,
there are 15 UK Spiders from 1982 listed in the worldwide spider registry.
11 of them have proved registration plates with Suffix letter "X" (period 1 August 1981 – 31 July 1982).

b.t.w.: 370 cars in UK are known and listed which means 5th place in the worldwide "nations ranking list".
More details at: https://www.fiatspider.de/filebrowser/download/4151

New cars are always welcome. Please fill out the Spider registration form at:
https://www.fiatspider.de/der-spider/registry/enter

Thanks a lot!

Bye, Ralf

[18Fiatsandcounting]

Joe, the places that I purchase parts from in the U.S. are (in no particular order): Midwest-Bayless, AutoRicambi, and VickAuto (sponsor of this forum). I have also perused the website for http://www.middlebartongarage.com which is located in the UK and seems to carry a lot of Fiat parts. Plus they have nice exploded diagrams for the various systems of the Fiats, which is very handy.

I had a lot of business trips in the UK in the past, so I got quite used to landing in Heathrow, picking up a rental car (err, I mean, hired car) and then getting on the M4 to Reading, and everyone of course is driving on the wrong side of the road...

Cheers,
-Bryan

[JoeUK124]

Thanks Ralf and Bryan for the information.

Ralf I took my data from this website https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/ based on UK Government registration data. Not very scientific and great to know there is a proper register, I will input my details.

Thanks, Joe