Renewed Hello from Longmont Colorado

[parkcity124]

Hello all:

I spent a lot of time with a 1978 124 Spider, and sold it two years ago.

I re-acquired it a few weeks ago. It looked like a barn find with the top down, very dirty, in a small garage. A 123Ignition distributor was sitting on the fender, no distributor was installed.

Now it is back. New battery, new clutch (Sachs), old distributor with old pertronix. The windshiled and steering wheel are clean, everything else is still dirty. The steering, suspention and brakes feel right, up to my current top speed of 60 mph. It idles and drives pretty good. It has working lights, horn, ventilation, etc. It is a solid low-mile car with Konis, 14" panasports, Empi carb, aluminum radiator, early exhaust manifold, ss brake lines, Momo wheel, all Blaupunkt sound, H4s, original lower engine cover, etc. Rust free but unfortunately more than one paint job, with the faded original top still present.

The shifter rattles. The cd player appears to work but no sound. Clunking sound from right rear (sounds like the trunk or exhaust, but who knows).

I have the original air pump and most of the plumbing. My plan is to have it licensed and have those issued addressed by spring 2025.

Selling the 123Ignition with Bremi cap and rotor. Selling an Optima battery dated 9/22.

This forum has helped me in the past, quite a bit.

[rdv]

Hi ...,
welcome back to the forum! Good story, this car is your destiny, it had to be yours!
Hope you get it back on the road to next season in 2025!

Colorado is a Spider country, the worldwide Spider Register counts 202 cars for Colorado inkl. 72 CS1 1800 models, see here:
https://www.fiatspider.de/register?Fahr ... e=Colorado
Is your car already listed? If not, it would be great to get the car data (just pm me)

Any pics are welcome too! Good luck with your project!

Cheers Ralf