Hi everyone, i'm fresh new to these forums, i subscribed to partecipate and ask a few questions about a car i might be going to buy.

It's a Uno 45 fitted with a engine which doesn't seem to be a Fire - yet i've read that the even the bare 45 version was fitted with Fire engines since 1985 or so.

The car seems to be in decent shape for the price they're asking for (about 1000 € - it's already registered to an historical club so taxes and insurance fit into 180 € a year).


Here's a few pics of the car itself along with a pic of the engine cover - not a great one really, but you can see one side.

You sure its not a diesel? The 45 was available as a diesel judging by this review [ame="http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggerscarstuff/6056602346/"]Supermini Group Test - Austin Metro 1.0 HLE Daihatsu Charade 1.0 Diesel Fiat Uno 45 Super ES & Nissan Micra 1.0 GL 1983 (1) | Flickr - Photo Sharing![/ame]

There was a 903cc Uno, I believe the motor was from the earlier 850.
Pushrod motor I think.

Yes, the corner of top of engine visible does look like a pushrod rocker cover - so it's the early 600/850 based engine.

It's interesting that someone in Italy comes to a UK Fiat forum!

Car looks very nice, compared to the few rusty survivors we have in UK

I wasn't able to see this specific one as the owner sold it a while ago, they had a quite similar one except for having the 999 Fire engine, carb version. Yet to me something was wrong or the carburettor had to be dirty or worn cause even using the lamps was causing the engine to lower the revs so much it started to literally shake. Anyway the interiors and the paint weren't so bad but neither that good for the price they were asking for it (about 1200 € which is about one thousand pounds i think).

Btw yeap this one was a pushroad engine, fire engine has a black or green plastic cover (aside of the mechanic and layout differences).

@ Tom, yep well i kept looking for a decent Fiat forum and to be honest that aren't many decent Uno's dedicated ones.

Second series Uno are known to be a lot lesser rust prone, have you checked for those newer ones? Admitting that back then it sold enough in the UK to be still available of course.

On the other hand, here the Uno is old enough to be "dad's old car" and it gained historical value (as for being able to register it to the national registry for historical vehicles - the vehicle must have been built at least 20 years ago -, it subsequently benefits of lower insurance and lower taxes too) not more than 8 years ago, and models from the 1983/1984 are quite rare. During the last 5 years several demolition funds were given when buying a new car and giving in the old one, and that took out of the roads (and garages) many 80's and early 90's of course.

She's a 45S! How decadent. Five speed gearbox, if you fancy tuning the car you can bore the block out to 965cc and fit a set of MkI Panda 4x4 pistons, inlet manifold a bit of head work and free flowing exhaust and you can be looking at up to 70bhp depending on torque vs peek bhp carb' set up.

Liquid Knight said:

She's a 45S! How decadent. Five speed gearbox, if you fancy tuning the car you can bore the block out to 965cc and fit a set of MkI Panda 4x4 pistons, inlet manifold a bit of head work and free flowing exhaust and you can be looking at up to 70bhp depending on torque vs peek bhp carb' set up.

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That's a more than fair amount of hps for a car like the Uno my parents had a 1.4 i.e. 72hp, it was stolen in 2004 , then it was found out in the country after a while, but back then at that point my parents decided to buy a new car already. It served us well from '91 to 2004.

It was kind of blue/green (a cool colour) with blue "velvet-like" interiors, such as these ones (i'm actually going and have a look at this particular grey Uno this weekend ) it's a 1991 too!

Is 70bhp enough for the Uno?





Nah.