How's the Tipo coming along, Jonti? I've been away awhile... Hope all's going well with the rebuild!

Camo16 said:

How's the Tipo coming along, Jonti? I've been away awhile... Hope all's going well with the rebuild!

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Cheers for asking, the red one has met it's end after next door's caravan rolled back down the hill and collided with it. I'll post a pic of the devastation when I can extract it again from my garage. However this enabled me to acquire another Tipo and I'll start a new thread about it. Autumn was devoted to getting this one back on the road and it needs much more work - looks are deceiving. In the meantime here's a pic. I myself like silver on a Tipo, although many cars are silver these days.

Is the damage to the red 1 definitely terminal then?

puntofan01 said:

Is the damage to the red 1 definitely terminal then?

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Both doors and the rear wing, also the inner rear wing were taken out, it's a big caravan

Added to which, rust in the floor, front sills and inner wings behind the front wheels were problems still to solve. On the silver one, the first two were basically intact, though the inner wings were equally bad.

That's a great shame.

You're lucky, not only to have found another Tipo, but to have found it so quickly!

On the surface, that silver Tipo looks ace! That period Fiat really suits silver. Hope this one stays out of the caravan firing line (or your neighbour buys a tent).

puntofan01 said:

That's a great shame.

You're lucky, not only to have found another Tipo, but to have found it so quickly!

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Cheers, certainly Mk11s are also rare now, whoever was seam-sealing between the 2 metal sheets behind the front strut was leaving large gaps, letting water in from day 1

If my adding up is correct, according to howmanyleft, there's just 449 classic Tipos left in the UK, the vast majority of which are on SORN.

puntofan01 said:

If my adding up is correct, according to howmanyleft, there's just 449 classic Tipos left in the UK, the vast majority of which are on SORN.

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Vastly underappreciated

Impossibly cool to those in the know

449 is tragic. There'll probably be 10 left by the time collectors catch on.

I think that's the situation for most cars from the 80s and 90s tbh. The problem is that a lot of people don't see them as classics, and the vast majority of cars from that era will just be allowed to rot and/or be banger raced into complete and utter extinction.

1 of the things I love about Practical Classics is that it recognises cars from the 80s, 90s and even 00s as the classics they are, and they even publish buying guides for some of these cars!

Yes, the weird thing is there's probably many more original 500s around today than Tipos, Unos, Tempras and Regatas put together. All of which proves, I guess, that a 'classic' in the popular mind has to be curvy, small and generally uncomfortable.

I for one rail against this injustice.

Tipo per sempre.

I fear you're probably right.

Talking of the older 500s/600s probably being more than somewhat later models then some points to bear in mind are:

1) numbers produced
2) many went to more favourable climates so good condition spare panel still available
3) despite the prone to rusty metal the gauge and weight of the steel is much greater so mild to deeper surface rust does not cause structural/panel collapse so easily

I used to own a LHD Fiat 600D back in 1970s. She was a tough old girl. The only real rust issues were the front foot wells where the floor meets the inner wheel arch. Oddly I recall that the metal in this area of the floor was thinner than the surrounding body shell and wheels arches. Sort of make sense as your feet don't with much

Still plenty of Tipos in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/118745005867/
Loads in Brasil and Argentina: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fiattipoargentina/
A lot left here in Spain too.

SFB said:

Still plenty of Tipos in Italy: https://www.facebook.com/groups/118745005867/
Loads in Brasil

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Yes, check this place out

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...e-fiat-tipo-para-manter-especie-viva-12622323

Camo16 said:

Yes, the weird thing is there's probably many more original 500s around today than Tipos, Unos, Tempras and Regatas put together. All of which proves, I guess, that a 'classic' in the popular mind has to be curvy, small and generally uncomfortable.

I for one rail against this injustice.

Tipo per sempre.

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We should and the Autocar review of the new Tipo, amongst others 'respected' the previous Tip o