New member from Holland says Hi!

[jorbat]

Hi!

Last October I bought my first FIAT Spider.
A half-life-long wish coming true, so to say...
It's a creme-coloured 2000 CS0.
It was delivered new in the US in February 1981.
In 1994 it was imported into The Netherlands.

The first pictures I took (in front of FIAT Spider-specialist Oldtimerland in Amersfoort, Holland) are on my website:

http://debaatj.home.xs4all.nl/Startpagi ... m?uid=3334

I hope to share lots of technical know-how and anecdotes through this forum.

Joris de Baat
Rotterdam
Holland

[4uall]

Hello and welcome.

[124JOE]

hello any Qs just ask

[Snoopy]

Nice Car ! Welcome !

[baltobernie]

Hello and Welcome! Don't forget your helmet

[wiggo]

Welcom jorbat
Are the weather conditions in Holland such that you have stored your car away for the winter or are you still driving?

[jorbat]

Welcom jorbat
Are the weather conditions in Holland such that you have stored your car away for the winter or are you still driving?

Hi Wiggo,
Winter conditions in Holland are such that - in my estimate - 95% of Spider-owners store away their car from around the end of October until April.
For one thing, when it's snowing salt is spread on the roads.
Salt which subsequently splashes the underside of cars.
FIAT Spiders are not exactly built to withstand this, so...
I put my new purchase away after exactly one trip: home from the garage that I bought it from.
So it won't be until April next year until I really get to see what I bought!
Ciao!
Joris

[jorbat]

Hello and Welcome! Don't forget your helmet

Not exactly the helmet the Rijkspolitie used to wear at the time they were using the FIAT Spider to chase crooks.
But it will do, don't you think:



Ciao!
Joris de Baat