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g121
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71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:54 pm

Hi everyone,
Here's my fiat 124 spider. This car was imported to Spain in 90's and disassembled waiting for a restoration that never started.
Then was bought by another person who "repaired" the rust and assembled the car.
Apparently it was ready for painting.
Here there are a couple of photos of the car when I bought it:

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spiderdan
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Your car is a: 1968 124 Sport Spider
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby spiderdan » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:22 pm

Bienvenido al foro
Gracias por compartir las fotos con nosotros
De qué color vas a pintarlo?
Dan
1968 124 Sport Spider
"Angelina"
2015 Toyota Camry XSE (hers)
2016 Jeep Wrangler Sahara Unlimited (cottage toy)
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g121
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:25 pm

Once at home we started disassembling the car.
Here we see how it was repaired:

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Rear hood and fuel system removed:

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Then the exterior:
About exterior mouldings I don't like them so we welded the holes.

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71 124 Spider
69 124 AC Sport
76 Beta Montecarlo gr4 replica
81 R5 ts
71 Gt Junior
81 Alfa Gtv6
71 MGB & Midget

g121
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:29 pm

spiderdan wrote:Bienvenido al foro
Gracias por compartir las fotos con nosotros
De qué color vas a pintarlo?


Hola,
El color va a ser rosso cherry código F136 por si a alguien le interesa.
El color original del coche era azul pero el vano motor es rojo y el azul no me gusta.

En inglés:
Colour will be Rosso Cherry code F136 is someone wants to know.
Original colour was blue but engine bay is red and I don't like blue
71 124 Spider
69 124 AC Sport
76 Beta Montecarlo gr4 replica
81 R5 ts
71 Gt Junior
81 Alfa Gtv6
71 MGB & Midget

g121
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:51 pm

While examinating the front wings we saw a few scratches so it's time to remove filler:

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Let's cut!

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Previous owner replaced inner and outer sills for a new ones, I really don't understand why he didn't repaired pillars too.
Sorry about that but at that moment I didn't took photos of the process.

Front wing and wheelarch almost finished:

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And finished ready for primer:

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71 124 Spider
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djape1977
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby djape1977 » Fri Mar 17, 2017 6:13 am

that's a proper repair!

just hide the rusted out box sections that actually matter for car's rigidity

fiat218
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Your car is a: 1969 124 AS spider

Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby fiat218 » Fri Mar 17, 2017 6:56 am

g121 wrote:
spiderdan wrote:Bienvenido al foro
Gracias por compartir las fotos con nosotros
De qué color vas a pintarlo?


Hola,
El color va a ser rosso cherry código F136 por si a alguien le interesa.
El color original del coche era azul pero el vano motor es rojo y el azul no me gusta.

En inglés:
Colour will be Rosso Cherry code F136 is someone wants to know.
Original colour was blue but engine bay is red and I don't like blue

English
Jim
East Grand Forks MN
1970 Fiat Spider BS1 ( FOR SALE
1969 124 AS Spider
2017 Abrath
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spiderdan
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby spiderdan » Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:32 am

fiat218 wrote:English
:roll:

Bienvenido al foro
Welcome to the forum
Gracias por compartir las fotos con nosotros
Thank you for sharing pictures with us
De qué color vas a pintarlo?
What color are you going to paint it?
Dan
1968 124 Sport Spider
"Angelina"
2015 Toyota Camry XSE (hers)
2016 Jeep Wrangler Sahara Unlimited (cottage toy)
http://s1342.photobucket.com/user/68spi ... t%20Spider
http://www.youtube.com/user/Coontache/videos

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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:50 am

djape1977 wrote:that's a proper repair!

just hide the rusted out box sections that actually matter for car's rigidity


Yes, they changed sills but just hided the rust of the A pillar. Of ourse now it's well repaired but I don't have photos of all the process.
Same on the other side:

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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Wed May 31, 2017 7:18 pm

Hello,
Let's continue,
The body is ready, the weldings were sealed and the body was primed with phosphate primer.
The extrior will be done in a body shop

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And finally time for red

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georgeramos
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby georgeramos » Wed May 31, 2017 11:45 pm

Looking great so far! Thank you for sharing, please continue

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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:16 am

Redoing trunk wiring, it was in bad shape, hope now it will work.

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Removing paint from the front and rear bonnets, correcting the few dents they had with TAS and finishing with some mastic:

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Same with doors:

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There's a few rust on the corner. Cut, weld, fill out with tin and polished.
Like body all primed with phosphate primer.

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69 124 AC Sport
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81 R5 ts
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby RRoller123 » Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:31 am

Nice! Great fun following these restorations!
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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:04 pm

Doors and bonets already primed and ready for going to the paint shop.

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After thinking about it I decided to buy chrome bumpers, I don't like rubber ones and I prefer to buy them now before paint the car.

One nut welded on each side of the car for the rear ones.
About the supports i bought them on ebay so they were easy to install.

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About front lights I found two that were very similar to the abarth ones and once fitted on the car they look so good.
I think that came from a seat 124 sport 1.8 .

After taking some measurements on each side:

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Also welded a nut on the front wings for screw the chrome bumpers:

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And finally installed:

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Next installing the fuel tank with new hoses, braces, filter and electric fuel pump:
There you can see the rear bumpers installed too.

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Installing bonets, doors.... and the car was running again and ready for paint:

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71 124 Spider
69 124 AC Sport
76 Beta Montecarlo gr4 replica
81 R5 ts
71 Gt Junior
81 Alfa Gtv6
71 MGB & Midget

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Re: 71 fiat 124 spider

Postby g121 » Wed Jul 05, 2017 8:17 pm

Meanwhile I found a 1967 fiat 124 AC spider and I bought it. Unfortunately it will be used for parts because I don't have the title (It has a chassis number and plates so maybe in a future if I found a body without rust I'll restore it) and the body is useless because of the rust :cry:

I was expecting to have a 5 gears gearbox and a extra 1.4 twincam engine for my 124 AC coupe but wat a surprise:

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2.0 engine from a fiat 131 racing and an abarth gearbox.

It also came with 15" wire wheels and 4*98 hubs. I'l sell them so if anyone here is interested...

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76 Beta Montecarlo gr4 replica
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