F.I.A.T = Fix It Again Tony
On 17/01/2008, at 10:30 AM, RANDELL KEGG wrote:
> I had a 1966 Fiat 1500. It was kind of a MGB clone. It had a manual
> hand
> throttle, as well. It was real handy on cold days, until the motor
> warmed up.
> Nice car, but it had two problems: You couldn't find parts for it,
> (in 1971),
> and the body tried its best to turn to an iron oxide dust.
>
> Randy Kegg
>
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:24 AM
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>
> Bill wrote:
>
>> Friend has a Fiat 600 like that once. You could hunch over the wheel,
>> gripping it for all you were worth, foot trying to push the
>> accelerator
>> through the
>> floor, doing your most impassioned imitation of Nuvolari, and the
>> best
>> thing
>> about it is that no one around you in traffic would ever notice.....
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> IIRC the Fiat 600 had as standard a manual throttle control,
> sort of predecessor to the CC, apart from the accelerator.
> But then, I may be wrong. I was only small kid at the time they
> embellished our roads here in Europe.
>
> Bert
>
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