In the sixties, I owned a Fiat 1500 -- a sports car with an Osca engine.
The car handled beautifully, and the top was remarkably easy to raise and
lower. That is the extent of the praise I can muster for the car. Power
was marginal for that type of car (tho not as wimpy as your 850s) and
something was always breaking. Among other diabolical failures, it
overheated and stalled with vapor lock in the middle of the Holland Tunnel
(between New York City and New Jersey) at the peak of Friday night rush
hour. To average the seasons out, it loved to stall from carburator icing
in the winter. I traded it in on my TR4A. Until the recent thread, I had
assumed that I was the only person who had bought a Triumph and found it a
marvel (relatively) of reliability.
Alan Crane
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