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MaineSpider75
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Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:58 am
Your car is a: 1975 Spider 1800
Location: Scarborough, ME

New member from Maine

Post by MaineSpider75 »

Greetings from Maine. I've been a Spider owner since May, but it's taken me awhile to get registered on the forum.

I bought a red '75 with tan interior for my wife's birthday. The forum has been invaluable already in helping me solve problems. So far I have:

- Solved starter issue.
- Cleaned up all grounds
- brown wire fix
- new carpet
- new upholstery
- Cleaned out mouse nest in engine cowling (man that stunk!)
- oil change and new spark plugs.
- fixed distributor leak

Much more to do including new timing belt, water pump, radiator (leaking), and solving a number of other oil leaks, but we've enjoyed our "new to us" spider so far and hope to get many years of enjoyment out of it.

I will upload pictures at some point as well. Thanks to all of you that have contributed to the forum. You've made my first car restoration experience a pleasure so far :D
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aj81spider
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Your car is a: 1974 Fiat 124 Spider
Location: Chelmsford, MA

Re: New member from Maine

Post by aj81spider »

Welcome! Where in Maine?

We're building up a pretty good roster of New England Spiders.
A.J.

1974 Fiat 124 Spider
2006 Corvette
1981 Spider 2000 (sold 2013 - never should have sold that car)
MaineSpider75
Posts: 20
Joined: Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:58 am
Your car is a: 1975 Spider 1800
Location: Scarborough, ME

Re: New member from Maine

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aj81spider wrote:Welcome! Where in Maine?

We're building up a pretty good roster of New England Spiders.
I'm in Scarborough.
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RRoller123
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Your car is a: 1980 FI SPIDER 2000
Location: SAGAMORE BEACH, MA USA

Re: New member from Maine

Post by RRoller123 »

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

Post some pictures! They help a great deal when trying to help diagnose problems, inquiries, etc that you may have.

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
'80 FI Spider 2000
'74 and '79 X1/9 (past)
'75 BMW R75/6
2011 Chevy Malibu (daily driver)
2010 Chevy Silverado 2500HD Ext Cab 4WD/STD BED
2002 Edgewater 175CC 80HP 4-Stroke Yamaha
2003 Jaguar XK8
2003 Jaguar XKR
2021 Jayco 22RB
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