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Re: [Roadsters] Just your thoughts OT Fiat 850

To: "'Jim In Virginia'" <wrenchorhammer@live.com>, <davesmbox@aol.com>,
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Just your thoughts OT Fiat 850
From: "Paul" <9laser3@bright.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:30:37 -0400
  Back in the day, the 850s required new valves every year, new rings every
other year.  So don't spend the money you save on gas!

Paul
Ohio

-----Original Message-----
From: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim In
Virginia
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:31 PM
To: davesmbox@aol.com; Datsun Roadsters send mail
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Just your thoughts OT Fiat 850

Dave,

They are quite painfully slow for modern traffic, takes quite a while to get
up to 60 or 65.
Other than that, if you can drive an old roadster as a daily driver, you
would
be able to survive the even less creature comforts of the Fiat, I think!

One last caveat, they are Italian.  Unusual and expensive things may break
at
the wrong time!

Best Regards,
Jim


> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:43:05 -0400
> From: davesmbox@aol.com
> Subject: [Roadsters] Just your thoughts OT Fiat 850
>
> I am commuting into Boston again. My Toyota 4x4 only gets 22 to the gal.
My
> 1600 doesn't get much better. I am blowing $100 a week on gas.
> Just for shits and giggles I have been thinking about a Fiat 850 spyder as
a
> daily driver. And use the Toyota in the snow. They get 50 miles to the
gallon
> and there out there fully restored for under $10,000. Cheaper than a
Prius.
>
> ANY THOUGHTS?????
>
> Dave
>
>
> =
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