Mike picks out a rare vintage Fiat 600 from the 50s to revive and restore the car to its former glory. From Season 17 Episode 15 🇬🇧 Catch full episodes of Wheeler Dealers on discovery+: bit.ly/3L6XS4p
I had a ‘57 as a project car when I was in high school in ‘72. Got it running, drove it once and parked in my grandmothers garage. Went off to college, came back in ‘79, it was gone.😮
Este coche en España lo fabricó SEAT , SEAT 600, y es probablemente el mayor mito entre los coches clásicos españoles. Hace 20 años se empezaron a restaurar montones de ellos y ahora te lo puedes comprar desde 3000 euros en buen estado y por 5000 restaurado de 10, así que no sé qué margen le podrían sacar. Por otro lado, los recambios de este coche son abundantes y no caros Saludos
Owned one of these. Worst car I ever owned. Had suicide doors on mine. Ever time you closed the door you’d deposit some item on the road. Would never buy another fiat. Fix It Again Tony. Absolute junk.
So, great car, but it looks like the back passenger “oh, shit!” Leatherette handle straps on the inside B pillar are missing… there are 3 mounting holes strategically hidden behind Mike and Elvis’s head. As I remember my parents 128 wagon and 124 sport coup had some sort of looped strap to aid the back seat occupants to extricate.
My Mum had one in the 60's and I remember it had a hand throttle ( in addition to the accelerator pedal). Unlike modern cars, it was wired to the accelerator like an old style choke so was pretty dangerous if you used it, as it did not default to off....! Add to that the suicide doors, I don't know how I survived!
I know it's a 500, older and more classic, but where I live, you can find lots of 600 with the 850 cc (70's) engine, in decent shape, for about 3500... dollars
Yeah…. Since I started driving 35 years ago I usually have a FIAT of some kind for fun and Ford truck for day to day use. (1972 128SL, 1985 X/19. 1980 Spider 2000 at present.) A cheap classic FIAT is almost always going to cost more than a well kept one at market pricing. The two important things are that they need to be driven occasionally to stay in good shape .So a really low mile example isn’t usually a good thing for anyone wanting to drive it regularly. And they were prone to rust so checking out the weak spots on that model is critical before purchase.
The same car was also produced in Yugoslavia under license. It was called Zastava 750 "Fikjo". Later the car got few centimetres longer (there is actually funny story behind that) and the suicide doors were replaced with regular ones. Also other features were added and some removed on later models.
You obviously don’t know much about automotive refinishing. This is a full face mask with its own clean air supply line & positive pressure which makes it impossible to breathe in fumes. It quite literally does not get any better than this.
Blasphemer! There is literally no joy like a free revving small displacement Italian engine singing it’s song. Getting into any of the FIATs I’ve owned and hitting that accelerator makes me grin like a 13 year old boy with his first crush.
