Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Little Red Barchetta

[Charles Perry (charles]

We recently saw several of these at a display in Montreal, Canada when there for the race a couple of weeks ago. I had never seen one before that. Looks like a lot of fun - has quite the "concept car" look for its age.

 

-- charles

 

 

 

From: Britt2Asa [at] aol.com [mailto:Britt2Asa [at] aol.com]
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 11:25 AM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
Subject: Little Red Barchetta

 

Hi Guys

 

One of the small joys of living in the UK for the past 14 years is the car scene. There are a lot of neat cars to play with. Having finished the X 1/9 and having sent it off to the Ascari circuit in Spain where its new Ferrari owning owner is based I started looking for something different.

 

For years I wouldn't touch a Fiat. I made fun of them. Thought they were junk. However slowly I started to learn a bit and realised that for a small car, Fiat really knows it's stuff. Anyway my new project is a Fiat Barchetta. Handbuilt by Fiat and never officially sold over here in the UK (they are all LHD), they are a pure Itailan design with a DOHC Otto cycle 1.8l engine. We are having a hot summer so it never hurts to have a little red convertible. Very expensive when new they are now cheap as chips. Look what I bought for 3 grand.

 

 

Funny enough the workshop manual for this car actually says it was designed in the spirit of the Ferrari barchetta.

 

Its a fun little car, shame you guys stateside can't have access to them.

 

Regards

 

BR in the UK
1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
1980 400i (RHD 74,000 miles)
Searching for the right 512TR

1997 Fiat Barchetta
1985 Bertone X1/9
2003 BMW 530d
1991 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
1993 Alfa Spider S4 LHD
2010 BMW 320d