1978 Fiat 124

1800 Convertible

4 - Cyl.

Manual

Clear

Gasoline

For sale is my 1978 Fiat Spider with 65000 orig miles. This is a great car that has a really unique exterior color that is very dark blue and sometimes appears black. This Spider has black seats, but the rest of the interior color is red. I never got around to swapping out one or the other to make it match. This car runs and drives well. The radio is not original and additonal speakers have been added. The car always starts, stops and gets lots of attention. The front bumper can come with the sale. I took it off to give it more of the tough Abarth look. I like it this way and planned to take the rear bumper off and add some bumperettes...However, My wife says I have too many toys and reminds me of the following:The breaks squeak a bit. The oil and fuel guages work intermittently. The paint shows some signs that it is not original.. I reply that I know roughly how many miles a tank of gas gets and i just watch the miles under the spedo and the paint is why she wanted me to get it in the first place. She admits that the paint is really cool; and was impressed when we went to park it at our Rockville Antiques and classic car show and folks there paid it alot of attention.She says:The top seals the car well and looks good from the outside, but the bar that goes across the width of the top, near the seam above the top of the back window has come out of its housing. I say: The back window is clear and is not cracked. and we have the top down when we go for a drive anyway. OK, enough about my wife and I and the fiat. The boss says it has to go, so it is going. Here are a few details about fiats if you need a quick reference: Fiat 124 Sport SpiderThis article is about the Fiat 124 Spider. For the 124 Coupé, see Fiat 124 Coupé. For 124 sedan, see Fiat 124.Fiat 124 Sport SpiderManufacturerFiat 1966-1982 Pininfarina 1983-1985Production1966-1985AssemblyTurin, Italy San Giorgio Canavese, Italy(Pininfarina)Body style2-door cabrioletLayoutFR layoutEngine 1438 cc I4 1608 cc I4 1592 cc I4 1756 cc I4 1995 cc I4 1995 cc I4 1998 cc I4Transmission5-speed manualWheelbase89.75 in (2,280 mm)[1]Length156.25 in (3,969 mm)[1]Width63.5 in (1,613 mm)[1]Height49.25 in (1,251 mm)[1]RelatedFiat 124 The 124 Sport Spider is a 2+2 convertible marketed by Fiat from 1966 to 1979 – having debuted at the November 1966 Turin Auto Show. Designed and manufactured by Italian carozzeria Pininfarina, Fiat continued to market the monocoque-bodied car as the 2000 Spider from 1979 to 1982. Pininfarina itself assumed the car's marketing from 1983 to the end of its production in 1985 – as the Pininfarina Spider Azzura. The car was sold in Europe and the U.S. from its introduction until the 1975 model year when it was modified to comply with new U.S. regulations and no European version was produced. Sales in Europe resumed when Pininfarina took over production in 1983 under the name Pininfarina Europa Spider.[2] The Sports Spider and the Fiat 124 Coupé shared the numeric portions of their name with the 124 sedanalong with much of their running gear – and, in the case of the Coupé, a shared platform. The Sports Spider utilized a shorter platform along with a shorter wheelbase, and in contrast to the Pinifarina styled and manufactured Spider, Fiat designed and manufactured the Coupé in-house.Contents[hide]1 Engines2 Suspension3 Specification4 Production5 References6 External links[edit] Engines The engine used in the Spider and Coupé was a double overhead cam, aluminum crossflow head version of the sedan's pushrod unit. It started in 1966 with a capacity of 1438 cc progressively increasing to 1608 cc in 1970 (although this reduced to 1592 cc in 1973), 1756 cc in 1974 and finally 1995 cc in 1979. Designed by Dan Vano. Bosch fuel injection replaced the previously used Weber carburetors midway through 1980. In 1981 and 1982, Fiat partnered with Legend Industries to create approximately 700 turbo models. There was also a supercharged model called Volumex offered toward the end of production, and sold only in Europe. This family of engines was designed by ex-Ferrari chief engineer Aurelio Lampredi and in one form or another remained in production into the 1990s giving it one of the longest production runs in history. The double overhead cam (DOHC) version was the first mass manufactured DOHC to utilize reinforced rubber timing belts, an innovation that would come into nearly universal use in the decades after its introduction. Its family powered race cars such as: FIAT 131 Mirafiori, Special T, Lancia Beta Montecarlo, Delta Integrale and many others.1400 (1438 cc) - 90 PS (66 kW; 89 hp)1600 (1608 cc) - 110 PS (81 kW; 108 hp)1600 (1592 cc) - 106 PS (78 kW; 105 hp)1800 (1756 cc) - 118 PS (87 kW; 116 hp)2000 (1995 cc) - 78 PS (57 kW; 77 hp)2000i (1995 cc) - 100 PS (74 kW; 99 hp)VX (1998 cc) - 135 PS (99 kW; 133 hp)[edit] Suspension Fiat 124 Spider Suspension was conventional by unequal length wishbones and coil over damper at the front and by coil sprung live rear axle at the rear which was located by a transverse link (Panhard rod) and two pairs of forward extending radius rods to react braking and acceleration and to control axle wind-up.[edit] Specification The Coupe and Spider were first sold in the US market in 1968. In 1969, the Spider featured 4 wheel disc brakes, double overhead cams, hesitation wipers, steering column mounted lighting controls, radial ply tires and a 5 speed manual transmission (an optional 3-speed automatic transmission from General Motors was available from 1979 through 1985). Its convertible top could be raised and locked in under a minute. When the engine was upgraded to 1995 CC, the model was renamed as the Fiat 2000 Spider. Fiat subsequently stopped marketing the Spider and the X1/9 — to have their marketing assumed by their respective carozzeria.[2] An early special version was the 124 Spider Abarth which featured an independent rear axle, hardtop, different seats, interior etc. and only came in 3 colours.[edit] Production Fiat 124 Sport Spider (North America) The model line ceased in 1985 after almost 200,000 Spiders alone had been built, of which 75% were for the US market. There were nine models of the Spider, the AS, BS, BS1, CS, CSA (Abarth), CS1, CS2, CS0, and DS. Production for each year is as follows, chassis numbers start at #000001.1966 AS #0000011967 AS not many1968 AS #0056191969 AS #0105541970 BS #0218611971 BS 1438cc #0225891971 BS1 1608cc #0339501972 BS1 1608cc #0470321973 CS 1608cc #0595921973 CS 1592cc #0633081973 CSA 1756cc1974 CS1 1756cc #0716501975 CS1 1756cc #0887921976 CS1 1756cc #0999091977 CS1 1756cc #1133431978 CS1 1756cc #1260011979 CS2 1995cc Sportivo de Pininfarina Special edition[citation needed]1979 CS2 1995cc #142514