Hi from Australia

[jandarah]

Hi,

I have recently bought a 1977 1800cc Spyder. It had been painted bright yellow (very Italian), has the engine block from a 132, twin Webers from the 124 BC coupe. It has the "battering ram" bumpers, but with some of the drivers around here, they are necessary!! When I work out how to attach a photo, I will do so. Like all Spyders in Australia, it came in from the US, mine about 1989. It would have been converted to right hand drive here. It is very interesting trying to track the wiring. With the battery in the rear, one thing that I have done is to run some welding cable from the negative of the battery to the front body and engine block. I cannot believe that they would have relied only the panels, bolts and joins to convey the negative up front.

I have just installed a radio/cassette (yes, cassette) and will have speakers front and back soon. Still lots to do with the wiring and getting the dash lights up to spec.

Cheers from Oz

John

PS: This is not my first Fiat, in 1970 I bought a 1200 cc 124 sedan new and at the same time, we had a used 500 Bambino for a garage mate.

[Curly]

Welcome to the forum John, there's a wealth of information available here and plenty of Fiat tragics to share your frustrations and achievements. I believe the weather's been rather damp up your way recently, I hope you and the Spider are keeping dry

[RRoller123]

Welcome aboard! You will find plenty of knowledgeable and friendly people here.

Here is a thread on how to post pictures directly to the forum:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21014

And here is another picture-posting thread:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic ... 12&t=23084


This short instruction covers how to resize pictures so that they don’t get cut off at the right side:

Pictures can be easily and quickly resized using Windows.
You do not need to open the image file, therefore no image viewing software is needed.

1. First find where the image is stored on your computer.
2. Click on the image file to high light it.
3. Right click, then select "EDIT"
4. Click "RESIZE" in the upper left corner of the screen
5. Click on "PIXELS"
6. Make sure that "MAINTAIN ASPECT RATIO" is checked.
7. Retype "725" in "Horizontal" field.
8. Click "OK"
9. Save image, if desired. I put them in parallel folders with “resized” somewhere in the description..

It will now be resized and will show fully and properly on the forum, using standard Windows software.

And here is a link to a map of Spider owner’s locations. Many forum members have listed their locations.

https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=191825

Pete

[jandarah]

Hi Jim, thanks for the info regarding the photo adding, I will have a read and give it a go

[jandarah]

Oops, that should be Pete, not Jim.