From The SEQ Correspondent: An Early '70s Fiat Spider
Our South East Queensland correspondent, PeteR, has ditched Australia for a holiday in equally sunny Lisbon, where he spotted this lovely Fiat Spider. It looks like it might be a BS , with the B denoting a second series car and the S standing for Spider (the AS preceded today's example while the CS was the follow-up model in the same way that the 124 Sport Coupes were designated AC , BC and CC , but with the C standing for coupe). This is only a guess, mind you; the car's wearing 1600 badges which, in Australia at least, was the engine capacity most commonly fitted to BS and BC 124s. It's also fitted with the much nicer - read not fat, ugly US federally-mandated - bumpers that blighted later versions of the Spider. If you'd like to see a bit more of PeteR's automotive work, here's a link to his 'blog chronicling the transformation of his Alfa 147 into a track day weapon: https://aureliatheitalianproject.blogspot.com . Should you wi...