Rear-engined, rear-wheel drive, Italian and rare - all this for less than a grand?
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If you are eight years old or have been living on the moon for the last twenty years you could be forgiven for thinking the whole eco city car segment is a new thing. You may marvel at how Toyota managed to fit four people into its tiny iQ, or how Smart can charge 15 grand for a convertible Brabus FourTwo, but years and years ago the whole concept had been fine-tuned elsewhere.
Of course there was the original Mini but over in Italy, where they are the kings of small cars and low-speed crashes, Fiat had created the 500. Zelotes t 80 big mac driver download. Again, if you have been stuck on an island with Tom Hanks for the last five years, that’s the one that looks a bit like Fiat’s latest small car.
The 500 was a great success and in 1972 the company decided to replace it with something rather more modern-looking, borrowing the boxier lines of the larger 127. It was called the 126 and much of the mechanicals were borrowed from the 500.
This however was no bad thing, especially if your other car is a Porsche 911. The 126, like the 500, was rear-engined and rear-drive so traction was good, as was the possibility of going backwards into a hedge.
Get it right though and the 126 was an absolute hoot to drive, with handling you would never get bored of, in much the same way as you could never bore of telling people your car rolls with a ‘straight two’.
The engines ranged from 594cc to a heady 704cc and while performance was not something to shout about, who cares when you can tail slide at the kind of speeds where you run the risk of being overtaken by a pushbike?
Perhaps surprisingly the prices of 126s seem to be rising and while it is not quite at Fiat 500 levels yet the chances of this becoming a true classic are high. The first question you have to ask yourself is how many 18,000-mile cars do you see these days for £950? The second question is how many do you see that are this goddam funky-looking?
You may not get it – and you won’t be alone – but a Fiat 126 on some cheeky Minilites in white is just working for the PH office this morning. Maybe it’s a Friday thing.
MOT until next year, and tax, and with what looks like spotless condition. Think outside the box with this one and you’ve got a city car for peanuts which is unlikely to do anything but go up in value. Speed may not matter quite so much with this one but who cares..?
Megaseg pro 5 9 2 – professional mp3 dj application. Autotrader ad reads: '1990 FIAT 126 BIS 3dr Hatchback, White, 704cc Petrol, Manual, Minilite Wheels, Tinted Windows, CD Player, Tax Aug 2009, Mot Feb 2010, good condition for year, a clean economical fun car £950.'
Oh wow..my Mum had one of these, a red one! I haven't seen one for years.
Friday 6th March 2009
if you want a cheap one go to Poland, there are thousounds of these things everywhere!! just called a Polski instead!
Friday 6th March 2009
Friday 6th March 2009
I can empathise with that! Cool little cars and if you're not of the Fiat persuasion you can always tick the drive train in an off road buggy like the old NCF Blitz. Personally I think that's a very cool car for £900 though.
Friday 6th March 2009
That's quite tempting for me, have a written off Seicento at the minute so might go old school
Friday 6th March 2009
The tinting needs to go. Other than that a great, unusual choice for SOTW.
Friday 6th March 2009
My mum had one of these in the late 80's. It dissolved completely in about 3 years. Literally, the paint had more integrity than the metal underneath. Sure the ones made in Poland later were better.
Friday 6th March 2009
I love them. The originals had some sort of rip cord to start them, like a lawn mower. We used to call them chubby cars (no, not that sort of chubby).
Friday 6th March 2009
My sister had/has one. Drove it once.. tough to decide whether to drive in the gutter, between the double yellows, in the vast expanse of the carriageway or over near that white line in the middle. Gearbox lunched itself, it's sat at my parents place for years.. should I go and fiddle?
Friday 6th March 2009
LOL , i just paid more than that on a new BMX ( and im 32 ) cracking little car if you live in a city
Friday 6th March 2009
I hadn't seen one for years.. until I saw one yesterday! It was riddled with rust, and amazingly small!!
Friday 6th March 2009
I recall a evening spent in a snowy car park with one of these - superb fun, until we clipped the kerb with the left rear and it tore the whole engine / suspension / gearbox assembly off the bottom of the (rather rusty) frame with that rather unmistakeable 'bag of spanners dropped on the garage floor' sound....
Friday 6th March 2009
Hmm, I dont get this one, but my brother once had a 127 Sport which did look good in Black and went pretty well
Friday 6th March 2009
There's a guy who lives near me with an absolutely pristine red one he's had for as long as I can remember. Looks good as new. I bet they're an absolute hoot to drive, and if the engine's basically the same as the 500, all the Abarth mods will work too. Could end up with the most bonkers track day machine.
Friday 6th March 2009
Don't these take something like 28 seconds to get to 60mph?
Friday 6th March 2009
Anyone else frantically searching ebay for one of these..?
Friday 6th March 2009
Friday 6th March 2009
Don't these take something like 28 seconds to get to 60mph?
you've got your numbers the wrong way round
Friday 6th March 2009
Oh wow..my Mum had one of these, a red one! I haven't seen one for years.
Yep my mum too, although it was a horrid turquoise colour!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday 6th March 2009
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RE: SOTW: Fiat 126 BIS
Sunday 8th March 2009
Are you taking the BIS?!?!
didn' t that mean they had the 'newer ' water cooled engine.. 993 126..
Sunday 8th March 2009
Sunday 8th March 2009
if I recall correctly this originally would have been the 127 back in Poland where it was made. The 126 was earlier model and did not have a hatchback but a engine back like the fiat 500. THey use to be called the 'safest cars in country' as they had great crumple zones like modern cars. ie between front the bumper and the engine bay. Problem was with the posisitioning of the driver seat which kind a got in the way between the two
The last version - the 700cc Bis had a rear hatch instead of the fixed window and small rear bonnet.
Sunday 8th March 2009
I know its not a BIS model but you've gotta love the originallity of this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fiat-126-De-Ville-Air-cooled.. better colour IMHO and that sunroof will be a good laugh in the summer
Thats in really good nick !! Got to be a better deal than the other one How about one with 6,000 miles? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am..no way, that one is pictured outside the stables about 200 metres from my house!
Sunday 8th March 2009
I remember the 126 with the Lancia engine and the RR gearbox.. it was in Car and Car Conversions. The gearbox was so huge, it filled the cabin, leaving no space for proper seats. The mag reported that the guy that built it also had a chopped down RR for track days.. As for the SOTW, I had air cooled and water cooled ones, the latter bought new! Top little cars, but hairy on the motorway near lorries!
Monday 9th March 2009
A mate at school back in about '88 had one of these. He was 6'2' and lived on top of a Welsh mountain, so it was perfectly suited for his needs. The engine, which was about as big as a pair of baked bean cans, seemed to be held in place by a large elastic band. The car broke reversing after me on a push bike. I have always hankered after one. If I ever get to have a shed, amongst all the other crap I fill it with, there will be a space for a 126.
Monday 9th March 2009
Had a 128 some years ago. It got me stuck on bridges and in tunnels, highways and byways, in forward and reverse, and of course in my own driveway many, many times. Yet it was, undeniably, in some inexplicable way, fun to drive, when it could be coaxed into motion. After only 19,000 miles, the timing belt broke, and then not too long afterward, another belt broke and got tangled in the timing belt.. and on and on. Rust broke out like a teenager's pimples after all of two years. It had great road clearance which was much appreciated when, as often happened, I had to coast to the side of the road and crawl under to make a temporary, and if I may say so, ingenious, repair. I would consider buying another Fiat with the same enthusiasm as I would contemplate contracting leprosy, or some other loathsome disease. Cute car? Sort of. Fun to drive? Oddly, yes. Worth owning? Not if you want to drive it.
Monday 9th March 2009
Oh wow..my Mum had one of these, a red one! I haven't seen one for years.
I saw a red one yesterday - G112 UNA
Monday 9th March 2009
Ah, rear engined FIATs. I learnt to drive in one of these: FIAT 850 sport coupe. Great little car.
Monday 9th March 2009
I spent a summer in the mid 80s paying of my student overdraft by driving loads of Fiats around Soton docks. 1st point to remember about the Polish made 126s - the maroon 1s are way faster than the blue or white 1s. 2nd point, we used to do formation handbrake turns in these when parking them in the lines. Nearly as much fun as a Abarth 130 TC if the truth be told.
Monday 9th March 2009
The air coooled 650 cc engine was seriously tough, unlike the latter 700 cc water cooled lancia unit, no use for tuning at all. Fun while it lasted until DEFRA stopped us using the set aside for racing on ! www.blitzracing.co.uk.
Monday 9th March 2009
they are NOT Minilites.
How do you know they are not? I said 'copies' are NOT Minilites! And if they were real MiniLITES and not MiniLIGHTS or Superlights (note the spelling) they would be worth more than the price of the car. That's why I said if it HAS got Minilites, buy it quick! This is a Minilight (about 45 quid for a 10inch) This is a Superlight (about 60 quid) This is the real mcoy, a MiniLITE magnesium alloy - price? on application! My mates racing Escort Cosworth runs on genuine centre-lock split rim minilites - they cost a bomb - so light even mrs morgrp could pick one up one handed - bearing mind they're about an 18' diameter
Monday 9th March 2009
Click this link to see the undisputed king of the 126's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWI_jc4agYs
I can't believe no one has commented on this clip - I haven't laughed so much all week. - Good work!
Monday 9th March 2009
Two of my mates dads had one of these (at different times). The first was in NHS disability blue, with one of those fabric sunroof things. Rather illegally, he used to pick us up from school in it. I say illegally because there were 5 of us. Plus driver. In >that<. The holier-than-thou TV traffic cop shows would have had a field day. 2 people on a passenger seat isn't frightfully safe I suppose. One day he was hoofing it down the fairly moderate but long hill from school to their house and WHOMPH the fabric sunroof decided to partially detach itself, flailing around like a Bobby Charlton comb-over. Scary but absolutely hillarious! When the car finally died of tinworm, my other mate blagged it off him. The plan was for us to convert his dad's 126 to a twin engine 4x4. Along with some scrapped Mini bits it sort-of worked. Gear change was tricky. We were blissfully unaware at the time that 2 engined cars were utterly illegal.
Monday 9th March 2009
Original Panda: now that is something else.
That comment and this car have got me thinking - I actually reckon the 126, original Panda (especially if it's the early one with the offset radiator grille) and Cinquecento are cooler than the traditional 500/600 and the 'nuova' 500 (yes, I know the Cinquecento was marketed in Italy as the 'Nuova 500' but I'm just going off what's written on the back - you all know which car I mean). The original 500 has a lot of charm but it's all a bit cliched - yes, so it conjures up images of Audrey Hepburn and Brigette Bardot driving them around without any shoes on in the dusty streets of San Remo in the late '50s whilst Richard Burton fires up a Riva Aquarama and stubs out a Capstan, but they've picked up this godawful 'Hoxton' image since. The people most likely to drive them nowadays are urban 'trendy' media types who say their favourite film is La Dolce Vita because they've got a framed original foyer poster in the hallway of their 'looks scruffy and smells of baby-sick but it's worth £2mill' Notting Hill flat. People who say 'dahhlink' a lot and do that air-kissing thing when they meet anyone they're even vaguely acquainted with. The new one looks like an oochie-coochie-coo attempt to emulate it. I think it's a good car and I praise Fiat for making it properly small, but it's a bit cartoonish and self-consciously cute. The four-wheeled equivalent of batted eyelashes and a 'baby-voice'. But the 126, Panda and Cinquecento have a more minimalist, industrial feel to them, nothing superfluous about their design. They go well with minimalist interiors and modern art and suggest that the owner appreciates the design concepts behind them rather than their film-garnished image. Also, the Cinquecento Sporting is the only '90s hot hatch you don't readily associate with blaring drum 'n' bass. Also works for Vespas. Original Vespas looking like some rip-off of Jimmy's from Quadrophrenia, festooned with Who logos, targets and mirrors, look a bit desperate these days, like some beer-gutted bloke in an Elvis costume chatting up a twentysomething barmaid. The 're-launch' Vespas seem to be ridden by hatchet-faced, power-suited 'modern business' types trying to convince the world they have a personality. But the square-headlight '70s/'80s models - they're actually cooler in my eyes: People associate Italy with all this flowing, classically-inspired organic design and bang on and on about inheriting the Rennaissance values of truth and beauty etc, but there's another side to Italy, with a vast chemical industry, that produces starkly man-made-looking objects, using lots of plastic in deliberately artificial-looking colours. The Italy that gave us the Lancia Stratos, Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari 348, the output of Luigi Colani and Marco Zanuso. The origins of Kartell furniture, Artimide lighting and Brionvega 'cube' TVs and record players - and I love it.
Monday 9th March 2009
Although the 126 is a great little car, a better option would be a Renault R8. Cheap to buy, Road Tax free and with a lot more room inside, the basic R8 is cheap and easy to modify and costs a fraction of the amount demanded for a Gordini. A 126 owner can only dream of the performance and superb ride provided by the frenchman but you can still drive round with the engine cover propped open.......
Monday 9th March 2009
If you want the 'ultimate' rear-engine small Fiat, then only one car fits the bill..
Monday 9th March 2009
If you want the 'ultimate' rear-engine small Fiat, then only one car fits the bill..
Had to look twice. However I can confirm that this is utterly barmy.
Monday 9th March 2009
Ah, rear engined FIATs. I learnt to drive in one of these: FIAT 850 sport coupe. Great little car.
Fiat 126 Bis Service Manual Pdf
Uncle had one. Those cars look great.
Tuesday 10th March 2009
If you want the 'ultimate' rear-engine small Fiat, then only one car fits the bill..
Fiat 126 Bis Service Manual 2016
Had to look twice. However I can confirm that this is utterly barmy.Barmy? The first of these cars went on sale in the late 60s fitted with a Ford Cortina GT engine (you got the Fiat engine as part of a warranty should the Ford engine fail!). Only 4 were ever sold but they were bloody quick! After that came one that was fitted with a Loti twin cam - it was well-known at the time, and touched 130 mph at the end of Madeira Drive in the Brighton Speed Trials.
Fiat 126 Bis Service Manual 2017
The red one has been built recently using parts from one of the original cars.
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