Styling Can you identify these wheels?
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Styling Can you identify these wheels?
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Boranni - fitted to Alfas of the period. ....feeling wealthy?
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They are round ones most definately
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Similar Peter, very similar!
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Seriously though
I really like the look of that car.
I really like the look of that car.
Seriously though
I really like the look of that car.
Since you fitted that sunroof:shakehead:
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Since you fitted that sunroof:shakehead:
Well......since I realised how much faster the car went with the checkered sunroof, I started to see what it's all about with this modding lark.
You might have thought that fancy spotlamps, special badges, additional instruments, chunkier wheels, flared wheelarches, adjustable dampers and "sporty" steering-wheels were all just so much dead weight.
But I now know that not to be the case. Counter-intuitive though it might be, all those details that Dante Giacosa stupidly decided to leave off the original design of the Fiat 500 make it into the car it should have been.
So I've decided to go to the Dark Side...........NOT!
PS. I do like that little rally car though.
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Seriously though
I really like the look of that car.
Me too Peter, there is something of the giant killer about it - out there dealing with the elements, time and other competitors - reminds me of the many times I have sat in a rally car and visited the scenery rather than staying on the track!!! Anyone know the spec of the rally 500????
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I think it was the 2007 0r 2008 Classic Monte Carlo Rally and the drivers were "previous winners,1988 victor Bruno Saby, with his co-driver Jean-Francois Fauchille, who somehow managed to fold his six-foot-two-inch frame into a 1969 Fiat 500."
FIAT 500 ABARTH by Claude HERCENT, on FlickrHere's a Steyr-Puch classic rally 500:
[ame]https://youtu.be/bd0DChGMAOQ[/ame]
Blimey there's loads of it...
[ame]https://youtu.be/yzrDL5MUO78[/ame]
See you later...I've got things to watch.
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The Steyr Puch 650TR was a very successful car in it's day--in 1966 the Polish driver Sobieslaw Zasada won the European rally championship in one--the smallest car ever to have done so. With its relatively narrow tyres and low BHP (relative to other cars) it is most probably far easier to drive on snow---look at the way it was holding onto the Renault Alpine (in the 2nd film), a car that under normal circumstances would just walk away from the Steyr.
As a matter of interest, Mr Zasada went on to be one of Poland's most successful business men---he was the first Eastern European that M/Benz gave a building licence too, for the Vito vans.
As a matter of interest, Mr Zasada went on to be one of Poland's most successful business men---he was the first Eastern European that M/Benz gave a building licence too, for the Vito vans.
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