New From KANSAS CITY

[LIQUIDLOUNGE]

Hi Everyone,
I have just inherited my fathers '76 Spider....Navy Blue w/ tan top and interior,64,000 miles. My father passed a couple of years ago and the car had been sitting for a few years at my brother's farm. He was unable to get it fired up again so he called me and told me to come pick it up if I wanted it as mice were starting to reside there. I made the trip to NE Iowa and picked up the car...rolled it down a hill onto the trailer with no brakes!! and headed back to KC. I spent about $15.00 at the quarter carwash and then the car sat for about a year in my warehouse. I had tried to sell the car as I've gotten to the point in my life where I want less to keep up and besides, I already have a hobby convertible sports car. Nobody was interested in the car at anyprice not running, so I started gathering new tune-up parts and drained the gas and after a few hours, the car came to life!! What a wonderful sound these things have...I drove up to the filling station, aired up the tires and put more gas in it and just fell in love with the car...even the brakes came back on their own. Now the car is no longer for sale. The car started on mothers day and I called my mom and she told me again how much my dad loved this car. I can't stay out of this thing!! It gets more looks and comments than any of my other vehicles (and I'm lucky to have some nice ones) Anyway, just thought I would share this. Looks like a great forum. Take Care All, Dave.

[courtenay]

What a great story, Dave!! Welcome to the Forum. You will find that it doesn't matter what your problem is, you'll find a solution to it here.
Cheers,
Bruce

[DocGraphics]

Dave Dave Dave...you should have never drove her...now your addicted like the rest of us..hahaha

Seriously, welcome to the forum, just about anything you need to know can be found here & if not just ask, everyone's happy to share.
I got my 78 last year & and I drive her as much as I can...funnest car I've ever driven. Easy to work on & most parts readily available.

Do you have any pic? We all love to see pictures.

[RRoller123]

Excellent Tale!! Welcome aboard! Lots of friendly and very helpful people here!

[LIQUIDLOUNGE]

Thanks for the welcome! I'll try yo get some pics up.

[TulsaSpider]

Great story!a Welcome! There is a good Fiat Mechanic near you and I know a few are coming down to MOFLO this weekend!

[RRoller123]

My standard instruction that I have been developing for a while here: Hope it is useful.

HOW TO POST PICTURES IN FIATSPIDER.COM

Well that picture-posting thing sure is confusing. Took me forever to figure it out. Here is what I do:

First, you must post your pictures on photobucket.com or one of the similar competing websites. You can't post pics directly from your computer. So set up a free account there first. The instructions here reference photobucket.com.

Then in your FS.com post, look for the "Img" box at the top of the post, #9 from the left in the row of command icons.

Put the cursor where you want the pic to appear in the post (leave a few spaces after text is a good idea) and click the "Img" button/icon above.

Then go to the photobucket.com site (or competitor) and find your pic. Hover the cursor over the pic and a drop down menu will appear. Then click the "Direct Link" or similar button. In Photobucket, it will respond with a "copied" indication.

Go back to your FS.com post and make sure the cursor is EXACTLY in between the 2 Img boxes: [img](cursor%20in%20here)[/img] then right click and hit "paste" and the web link for the pic will show up in between the 2 img boxes. DON'T hit the IMG button a second time. MOVE your cursor out of the IMG info you just created before you hit enter.

Now when you post the post, the pic will be there!

Remember that if you delete the photobucket "master" pic, it will no longer appear in the posting here on FS.com

Also: there is a size limit to the pictures that can be displayed here, I think it is 750 pixels in width, someone correct me if I am wrong. So you may need to resize (typically downsize) the pics so that they fit properly and all of the pic is displayed and not cropped. What I do is really simple: I email the original picture to myself within AOL. AOL will automatically prompt you to see if you want the picture "optimized". Say "yes" and send this new pic to yourself. I then save it with a "small" addendum to the picture name and put this optimized picture up on photobucket. It works every single time like a charm.