Oct. 1 update Rust has severely deteriorated this 1200 Fiat which I bought along with a blue Fiat about 25-28 years ago in Quilcene. Both old red Rusty and Blue had been neglected for decades. I didn’t give them much attention, either. I pulled what I could from Blue before having it hauled off. Much […]
Why? Why not? Every owner of one of these cabriolets has a story. Some stories are of youthful times when I had enough hair for the wind to flow through. That’s not my story. I bought a 1960 Fiat 1200 for five hundred bucks from a friend of my ex-girlfriend. I drove it home but […]
A fast romance The first Fiat 1200 to come into my life seduced me 40 years ago. I bought the car for $500 from my girlfriend’s friend. The engine blew on the drive home. Why I didn’t walk away then, I still don’t know. But here I am today, with rusting hulks of 1960s Italian […]