New Member in San Diego USA

[cheaptrick]

Just picked up a dark green/tan 1980 FI automatic. Speedo says 29K miles but it might be 129k for all I know. It is a good solid car, no rust and Mark and Greg at Allisons has been very helpful and I picked up a bunch of parts from them. Wilwood big brake kit just went on, as well as all new suspension front and rear. I have been lurking here for A couple of weeks and picked up a ton of info. That has helped me get this far. Plans call for a total respray ( same color) and push in and rechrome tube bumpers. Got monza wheels from Mark too. My first Fiat was an green/tan 850 in 1970 and then a yellow spider in 1974 and a red one in 1988, so its been 28 years and I'm finally back for more. Auto is because my wife does not want to row the gears Anymore, and to be honest I dont want to either. I have the brides full support as she had a spider after college too (dark blue) and is looking forward to getting this one on the road. If someone tells me how to post picks I will send some along as I go. Happy to be here and thanks in advance for the spider fellowship. Steve

[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

[cheaptrick]

As promised Pics of new (1980) spider. Pics look better than car in person but still rust free and original paint.

[cheaptrick]

I tried to upload more than one pic did not seem to work. Any ideas? Steve

[cheaptrick]

next to last one

[cheaptrick]

Last one for now

[RRoller123]

Looks great and in tremendous condition! Panel lines are really good.

You can post multiple pictures in one post by doing what you just did, and then moving the cursor down below the picture, with a few "enter" clicks, and then adding another "Img" bracket set and putting in a second picture code. This can be done repeatedly within the same posting to get multiple pictures to appear at once.

[cheaptrick]

Thanks Pete the photo help is much appreciated. I will give it a try. Body has some pretty good dings that don't show up in photo. But No rust down below. I will send more phots as I go. Been fun so far. Steve