Fiat 124 Spider Pininfarina Azurra Spider

Stop! Don’t buy a FIAT 124 Spider or Pininfarina Azurra Spider without buying this book first! Packed with good advice from running costs, paperwork, vital statistics, valuation and the FIAT community, right through to whether it will suit you and your lifestyle. This is the complete guide to choosing, assessing and buying the FIAT or Pininfarina Spider of your dreams.

Now available in this softbound edition. The complete story of the elegant Boano-designed Coupe, timeless Pininfarina-styled Spider, and Abarths hard-charging 124 Spider-based rally car. Follow the evolution of the 124 from drawing board to the end of production. All the background you need to purchase, restore and maintain any of the Spiders built from 1966-1985. Filled with history, production, evolution and motorsport data. Foreword by Dante Giacosa.

Essential Fiat 124 Spider & CoupT Martin Buckley. Subtitled: The Cars and Their Story 1966-1985. This book traces the Coupe and Spider models from theearly 14cc cars through the 16s and 18s, to the last 2-liter Pininfarina-badged Spider, including A barth versions. Contains special coverage of the cars in the US. Sftbd., 8 1/4"x 1 1/4", 8 pgs., 6 b&w ill., 6 color.

A reference guide for owners and enthusiasts of the 1966 - 1985 FIAT 124 Spider, Maintaining the Italian Roadster provides a unique approach to owner maintenance. Covers identification, evolution, controls and instruments, body and interior, carburetion, fuel injection, and all major mechanical systems.Maintaining the Italian Roadster consists of 20 chapters; 18 are technically oriented to the major sections of the Spider:1. Introduction2. Identification3. Model evolution4. Driver controls5. Interior6. Exterior7. Weber Carburetors8. Bosch Fuel Injection9. Electrical System10. Cooling system11. Lubrication 12. Drivetrain 13. Suspension 14. Powerplant 15. Braking system16. Tune up 17. Convertible top18. Performance19. Paint 20. FiguresA typical chapter consists of descriptions of how devices function, interoperability between devices, failure states, diagnostics, and servicing.Covers the generally available cars - the ones people own today - types AS, BS, BS1, CS, CS1, CS2, CS0, and DS.

This portfolio covers one of Fiat's iconic cars, the Pininfarina-designed 124 Spider. Production started in 1966 at which time Fiat also introduced the Coupe. The sixties was a great time for sports cars with the 124 Spider competing with Alfa Romeo Spider, MGB, Triumph TR4 and 5 and the Datsun Fairlady. As the years rolled on by - the Spider would remain in production for almost two decades - Fiat kept up a program of continual improvements that involved regular engine capacity increases to 1608cc, then to 1756cc and finally to 1995cc. Along the way there were only minor cosmetic changes to the styling of the 124 Spider - it remained as pure a design as any during a time of some turmoil in the world's automobile industry and production ended in 1985.

The 124 Spider was based on a shortened Fiat 124 floorpan and never officially imported into Britain. It could have been a rival to the MGB and with a production run of 190,000 came close to matching the Abingdon total. In 1974 it was produced exclusively for the American market. In 1979 it became known as the Spider 2000 with the bigger engine and was available with a turbocharged engine in 1981. Fiat withdrew the car from America in 1982. Pininfarina took over the production and it was renamed the Spidereuropa but it was still a slow seller and finally ceased in 1985. This is a book of contemporary road and comparison tests, specification and technical data, driver's impressions, new model introductions, background. Models covered include: 1438cc, 1608cc, 1756cc, 124 Abarth Rally, 1995cc, Turbo, Azzurra, Spidereuropa.

Fiat & Abarth 124 Spider & CoupT By John Tipler. Now available in this softbound edition! The complete story of the elegant Boano-designed Coupe, timeless Pininfarina-styled Spider, and AbarthÆs hard-charging 124 Spider-based rally car. Follow the evolution of the 124 from drawingboard to the end of production. All the background you need to purchase, restore and maintain any of the Spiders built from 1966-85. Filled with history, production, evolution and motorsport data. Foreword by Dante Giacosa. Sftbd., 8 1/2"x 10", 160 pgs., 206 b&w ill.,10 color.

A reference guide for owners and enthusiasts of the 1966 - 1985 FIAT and Pininfarina 124 Spider. Covers identification, evolution, controls and instruments, body and interior, carburetion, fuel injection, and all major mechanical systems. This third edition of Maintaining the Italian Roadster is a significant update of the prior edition. There are more servicing procedures and more details on the car itself. A generous outpouring of information from friends in the Spider community has led to modifications and improvements of some procedures and some errors have been corrected.