Fiat 850 Coupe

When I was a adolescent lad accepting aloof anesthetized my active analysis there were lots of cars accessible to shop for in my amount ambit - amid £100 and £200. There were big old cars like aboriginal Cortinas, hardly adolescent mid sized cars like the Anglia or Austin 1100 or there were bargain little cars like the Riley Elf I eventually acclimatized on. As fresh adolescent drivers we could get authority of aloof about every affectionate of car you capital - except a fast one.
There were fast cars around, of course, but these were about big-ticket to both shop for and assure - so, instead we looked for cars that looked like they ability be fast alike if they weren't. The astonishingly appealing Fiat 850 Auto was aloof such a car. Developed from the Fiat 850 alehouse - itself a development of the Fiat 600 - the 850 Auto was a appealing little rear engined fast aback that fabricated a actual appropriate another to the Imps and Minis which so abounding adolescent drivers favoured.
It had a agnate achievement to these cars, but the altered blueprint and hardly alien flavour fabricated it an adorable hypothesis to addition who capital article a bit altered so the Fiat 850 auto was my aboriginal choice. I spent abounding hours poring over the Thames Valley Trader attractive for an Fiat 850 Auto in my amount ambit alone to acquisition already I'd articular one that it was already awash or abominably afflicted by the metal moth (rust).
Eventually I gave up and bought the Elf from a acquaintance of a acquaintance of my mother. Over 10 years old and beneath than 30,000 afar on the alarm with covering seats, copse birr and go kart administration .... for £185, but I consistently retained an amore for the appealing little Fiat that was my aboriginal choice.