A new member from Cape Cod

[akens124]

Hello

About a month ago I bought a 1980 fuel injected spider, my first of this type. I have owned at least 5 spiders and a couple of coupes. I bought my first one new in 1969, and none have been as pretty as that one (positano yellow), with Libre rims. I gave up on spiders in 1989 when my 1800 broke a timing belt. The car was disintegrating into rust, although that's not surprising, since I parked it on a dock every day. Then the building inspector found my seven parts cars and I had get rid of them.

I recently got lucky on ebay. There are only a few wheel well problems and virtually no rust underneath this car. Although it was listed with quite a list of problems, I had seen them all and were very easy to fix. I still have the apparently common problem of the engine dying after 20 seconds or so. I cannot get the idle system to do anything either. It is getting better, maybe just from being driven. New tires, brakes and wheel bearings made a huge difference too. New timing belt of course.

I have learned a huge amount from this forum and appreciate this greatly. There was nothing like this 20 years ago.

Thank you

Jim Akens

http://www.quissettshipclock.com/fiat124/fiat.jpg

[4uall]

Hello and welcome to the greatest place on earth

Great looking car


WHOO HOO ANOTHER 1980 FI

[RRoller123]

Welcome aboard! You will find plenty of knowledgeable and friendly people here.

Here is a thread on how to post pictures directly to the forum:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21014

And here is another picture-posting thread:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic ... 12&t=23084


Pete