New Member from Holland

[dutchspider]

Hello Every One,
I'm a new member from Holland with a '78 Spider. I bought this black painted CS1 1800 US version in 1990 from a colleague ( the original Californian licenceplate was CAR4CAS ).
To make a long story very short: The car is now painted in Clarendon Blue and has an 2 litre Fiat Argenta engine, 14" wheels and european bumpers. Since June 2014 my spider has new KONI SHOCKS ( 80-1877sport / 80-1878sport) and -30 mm lowering spring set.
Since a few months I'm searching for new wheels : Cromodora CD68 7 x 15 (Replica's???). Where can I buy these wheels! I think they will look great.

Greetings from Holland

[aevansgatech]

Welcome!

I'm not sure about the online options in Holland, but Cromodora wheels pop up on Ebay from time to time.

midwestbayless.com has them too and might ship internationally

[Squidders]

Hi Mate,

Welcome to the site.

As for the CD68 replicas in 15 x 7 inch. There was a company in the UK (group 4 wheels) that had the dies and reproduced a small batch. The user on here Divace73 has a set on his 124 spider and was involved as part of the bulk buy order for Australia. Do a search on her for the image you like to see them.

The bad news is that the replicas aren't available (well at least not from group 4 wheels anyway) and I am not even sure they are still in business as II tried to get a set myself.

Perhaps your option is to wait and see if someone offers up some original ones on the various forums as already mentioned.

[2000usa]

Medelander! (Fellow Dutch guy)

Nice to catch a countrymate here, I too bought a Spider beginning of the year, see my thread.
I love the CD68 wheel look, but like the others said, they are very rare, and if found, very expensive.

For now I will stick to my CD30's, but 13" is just sufficient to clear my brakes, so perhaps in future 15" Ronals will come...
see thread: http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic ... 19&t=28140

How are you experiencing the lower suspension? I personally would like to lower mine a bit, but I'm already touching speedbumps with the oilpanguard every now and then...

[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/f15/viewtopic ... 13&t=32169

And here is another picture-posting thread:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f15/viewtopic ... 12&t=23084

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

http://www.fiatspider.com/f15/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30441

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