> recently traded a used Bus engine for a '76 Fiat 124 Spider Convertible > (also sold as an Alfa Romeo Spider) > Sorry Ron, the Fiat 124 was never sold as an Alfa.
Sorry, lack of proofreading and a fast hand on the "send" key... Alfa inadvertantly rolled off of my fingers because Fiat owns them and they also have a Spider, but the sentence should have read: "also sold as a Pininfarina Spider", not an Alfa Romeo Spider. Pininfarina made the body of the Fiat Spider, and also marketed the car under their own name in the early 80's. In the U.S. the Pininfarina version was imported by Malcolm Bricklin, who also brought us two other automotive marketing failures - the Yugo, and the Subaru 360 (a tiny 2 cylinder rear-engined aircooled car with "suicide doors" that predated Subaru's official entry into the U.S. market). The latter is roughly as small as the BMW Isetta mentioned elsewhere in this thread (as was Fiat's similar 500), but neither had a single front swing-out door like the Isetta. - Ron Salmon The Bus Depot, Inc. (215) 234-VWVW www.busdepot.com |
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