FNG in the Hizza

[scusi]

Bone Journal, FIAT Tifosi!
May 14th, is my 39th birthday and the day of my retirement after 40 years as a firefighter/paramedic. (I was never good at math.) So, as a retirement present I bought a 1979 2000 spider last week. It is even the fast color, RED! I wanted something to tinker with and fun to drive. I was stationed in Brindisi, Italy for 2 years while in the USAF and learned all the appropriate swear words for working on it! I had an Alfa Romeo then, but this is my first FIAT. My wife and I live in the Chicago area. Our other interests are travel (wife has owned a travel agency for 30 years and we have been back to Italy several times), and golf. I am into photography, motorcycling (I own a BMW K1200GT) and motorsports (I worked on track rescue for CART and at Road America). Looking forward to some experienced advice. Donation sent

Richie

[azruss]

retired at 39 after a 40 year career! Sounds like you found the fountain of youth I understand this issue, as my wife and I constantly entertain ourselves with bad hearing misinterpreting what was said with comical results. Afterall, what else can you do when you are 39 going on 70. Welcome to the zoo. These are delightful little cars and you have lots of support in the Chicago area.

[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


This short instruction covers how to resize pictures so that they don’t get cut off at the right side:

Pictures can be easily and quickly resized using Windows.
You do not need to open the image file, therefore no image viewing software is needed.

1. First find where the image is stored on your computer.
2. Click on the image file to high light it.
3. Right click, then select "EDIT"
4. Click "RESIZE" in the upper left corner of the screen
5. Click on "PIXELS"
6. Make sure that "MAINTAIN ASPECT RATIO" is checked.
7. Retype "725" in "Horizontal" field.
8. Click "OK"
9. Save image, if desired. I put them in parallel folders with “resized” somewhere in the description..

It will now be resized and will show fully and properly on the forum, using standard Windows software.

And here is a link to a map of Spider owner’s locations. Many forum members have listed their locations.

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=191825

Pete