1976 Fiat Other

Convertible

350 LT-1 Corvette

Automatic

124CS1 0112247

Clear

Gas-Nitrous

I'm relisting this with all the old information from my previous listing included. The car was actually bought but the buyer had 2nd thoughts, or rather, his wife did so we were both amiable to a mutual agreement, we both kept our separate ends with good feedback. Trying again for all of you who wished you could but missed out. You'll see that I raised the beginning bid amount because the ending bid amount for the previous listing ended at a little more than this. Good luck, have fun! I just took the car out the other day for a spin around town, started right up and it was so gorgeous out that I put the top down. It still gets lots of looks and questions about what is really under the hood. I'll tell them, "a four banger, one on this side and one on that side." There are 22 pages on the build document and this ebay page won't even accept that reduced down to 6 pages so I'll include it with the sale of the car. Well, I'm getting older and my wife says if I want a boat, then the Fiat has to go. Hmm, I've fought it for 9 years but, life can always change. Growing up my big brother always owned spiders and we had a great many road trips to Yellowstone Park at 100mph with the top down celebrating life. When I was in my 40's he suggested getting a spider and putting a 350 in it, and of course, I listened. That was when I was between wives and was single. I had no idea of the type of cost one can incur doing a change like this and having it professionally done by a builder who specialized in Pro Street or Pro Strip. WOW! Friggin expensive. Then it's "well, where do I quit?" Every time there's an issue, it was a $500 bill to fix. My wife of 9 years kind of got sick of that. The car doesn't have too many miles on it, it sits in the garage most of the time,...waiting. This car looks like an old Fiat, many people now, a whole new generation that had never seen these type of cars will ask me, "what kind of car is that?" Of course, I have to take advantage of that naivety by saying, "well, it's an old Ferrari." When I beat them and they have a big block they tend to believe.... Well I'm half right anyway, Ferrari is owned by Fiat :-) The car as I said, is Fiat in looks only. I'll try to go through a partial list of modifications off the top of my head: 94 Vette LT1, 96 Vette OBD-II Computer custom programmed with Painless wiring, Deltec Ignition, New plenum with 52mm throttle body, 700r4 Automatic transmission 4 sp w/reverse B&M Pro Shifter with reverse lockout. Nitrous purge is on the shifter. Transmission shift kit. Front and rear sway bars Shortened 10 bolt Camaro rear end with 3.73 Eaton Posi-track, Chevy rear drum brakes, and Tom's Kick-Ass axles, (the rear end alone cost me $7500). Custom radiator, Supra rack and pinion steering, Dual custom exhaust, (not Fiat), dual mufflers. Aftermarket Personal (brand name) steering wheel, 17" wheels and tires brakes/drums drilled to accept 100mm 4 bolt wheels with some driveway road rash, Specialized aftermarket "Whoa Brakes" Willwood front disk brakes, Dragstrip ready direct brakes, with no master cylinder. (one foot on the gas, one foot on the brake), Nitrous bottle in the trunk, nitrous is directly tied into the foot pedal, when the bottle is armed, open, heated by two switches under the dash, purged by the button then it is full on when you stomp on the gas and off when you let off. Frame rails welded in underneath, new firewall and floor pan, 6 point roll cage body stiffener, Chrome molly rear trailing arms, all 4. Aftermarket gauges: the speedometer/miles was used with 40,000 on it when the engine build was brand new. Aftermarket seats with NHRA 4 point seat belts Currently the car has a 100hp shot of nitrous but there are different ports up to 150, never tried that. It currently has around 450hp at the rear wheels. It beats big blocks in the quarter and I've had it buried only once down the highway, (it floated and was a bit much for me, probably about 180). 25mpg hwy at 65mph, pretty darn good! I have other Fiat parts such as an original set of seats out of a 68, a newer windshield, various other parts, like a fiat transmission, (that was for the other fiat I had but never used), etc. etc. It all goes with the car. I had an appraisal done a few years ago and it came in around $15,000 with the possibility of it going up to $30,000 once I had the body work done. Never did that as I'm not interested in putting more money into it. I have a standing offer of $3500 from my barber, (probably not the person to sell it to since he just had 7 vertebrae fused). I have over $35,000 in this car. It's mostly the labor incurred making it what it is. Picking it up for cheap here, it's probably the quickest 124 in the world. It would make a nice addition to any garage. I took it a few years ago to an Italian car show in Denver and instead of going to the new F1 Ferrari, many 124 enthusiasts came to my car. It didn't win anything, and I for one would rather own an F1, (incidently the F1 said no touching and I touched it, probably the closest I'll ever get to being in one). It felt good though to shake hands and share. I'm listing it cheaply as my beginning price is my reserve. Sorry but if you're a 124 enthusiast, you'd be a fool not to buy it, I'm a fool to sell it, but I'm 55 now and after losing a brother to mersa last year, I've rethought my priorities in this life and this car isn't included. My loss, your very GOOD gain :-) Listing this for less than a 10th of what I have into it! It is also listed locally so I reserve the right to end the listing. I'll also add more information as I get it, (trying to scan in the original build list but having issues as it's so long!), Has a new brown top from topsonline. The top on it is the front square corner one. I do have a round corner bar if you're so incline. Hey, you guys out in Europe, I'll sell there too! You'd have the quickest one around, cheaper than a new Ferrari, about as quick too! Bid or forever hold your piece, this car is faster than all the other spiders in America! Ha! The power to weight ratio is higher than most new sport cars! Armchair Fiat lovers, own the quickest one of your club! Here's the nitrous burnout video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-eCOxw6yk I'm about done with the editing! When you go to the you-tube video, click on my other video's. You can see the other candy apple red fiat and how it was customized complete with turn signals in the headlights. One more: If you right click on the appraisal, you can save as a picture. Save it to your desktop and then when you open the picture on your desktop, just make it bigger and you can read it. It's appraised at $15,000 with the appraisal to go to $30,000 when the body work is done.