Fiat 850 $500 Dayton CL

not mine, looks like an 850 to me.

http://dayton.craigslist.org/ctd/1322328755.html

Funky colour, is it stock?

That's an 850 alright, but they were replaced in '74 by the X 1/9, so it's most likely a '72-3.

I think the color is correct. I seem to recall others that color back in the day.

Huh...no mention of rust

If the X-brace and rear suspension supports arent rotten its a fun project.

No title kills it in Ohio

I've seen that color on 850's before. Long time ago...

Is there an easy engine swap to give it more gittyup?

Dan

To bad it's not the coupe. I love those. There is a bigger motor that fits but not sure wich it is. My oldest brother knows he was head mech at a dealer back then and had one fast hard top coupe 850.

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The 850's have the misfortune to be the only fiat motor that turns in a counter clockwise direction. As far as swapping goes there is the euro market 70hp Abarth A112 motor at 1050cc or so with a reverse rotation kit and that is just about it. PBS used to make an adapter bellhousing, input shaft and camshaft gear pulleys that would allow the 1438 twin cam motor to bolt in and reverse its rotation so you still had 4 forward gears. Sadly those are pretty much unobtanium these days. I saw a set go on ebay 4 months ago for just under a grand.

GRM did an article on race prepping an 850 spider back in the sept/oct 1998 issue.....damn I have been reading the mag longer than that?

IIRC, PBS stil makes the 8-port head but it costs mucho.

Shawn

PBS dropped all fiat products a few years ago and sold all the tooling and rights to Paul at http://www.scuderiatopolino.com . Same stuff at a higher price. Also Bob Swenson the "B" in PBS engineering just died two weeks ago so a lot of the worlds rear engined fiat knowledge went with him. RIP.

My 850 sedan is 250lbs lighter than the spider and has a 903cc motor with lightened flywheel, 283 degree cam, higher compression, high rev valve springs and a rejetted 30DIC carb and is still annoyingly slow. Like 15 seconds to 60mph slow. It does however change directions like no other car I have driven, and that makes it so much fun.

Building a turbo setup for it now That should wake it up.