Fiat 124 Sport Coupe

Hi, Yoric;
In case this might be useful, I still have originals in great shape of the Fiat factory mechanical and bodywork parts manuals for the 1972 124 Sport Coupe, plus the factory wiring diagram, plus some misc other. Might have the color chart booklet. Lots of magazine material, USA and other.
The class president at our high school (1970) had a new green 124 Coupe, I was very jealous. Rarely see them now.

 

Yorick, yes they are urraco tail lamps and on the jarama too just mounted differently on the later.... who told you otherwise?

i had a later a geen 124 C coupe decades ago in high school. cool car but a little heavy and bigger compared to a alfa gtv i recall. my sisters boy friend bought one new and i thought it was way cool...they werent cheap back then like to a pinto or vega, haha.

72 B-series was my favorite because of the motor and fiat-dino like front end though many consider the A series the best because of the driveline.

 

Yoric
The 124 Coupe shares basically all mechanical parts with the 124 Spiders, so many parts are readily available. Exterior trim, dashboard, rear seats and some interior parts are very different and harder to find. While not dedicated to the Coupe, the mirafiori.com forum has lots of Fiat folk and good knowledge.
Jonathan

 

Hi ,

Try to get the Haynes Manual for your 124 Coupe . I think they’re still available.

Luigi

 

Kind of a budget Alfa GTV, in my opinion. I owned a 124 Spider and wasn't able to really bond with it, mostly because of how flexy it was. I think the coupe should be much more rigid -- a good thing.

 

from my experience fhaving had a bunch of alfa-fiat gtv, coupe and spiders years ago, the 124 sport coupe was stiffer than the alfa gtv. but it was much heavier and typically had a smaller less powerful motor than the alfa. all of this can be address with cams, pistons, idf etc on a 1.8 or 2.0 of course.

 

FYI, the Ferrari Boano was designed by PF; the prototype was 0429GT.

 

Although I've never owned a coupe, I've had seven 124 Spiders. The coupe is a lovely little car, with excellent visibility. They look much better in my opinion if they are lowered a bit and have a nice period-correct wheel like the Cromodora CD-30.

 

124 Coupes are great underrated classics always wanted one.

 

By the way what was the original color of the 124 coupe you recently acquired ? Is 1972 the 2 headlight or 4 headlight version .

 

The 4-headlight version of the 124 coupe was introduced late in 1969 in Italy, part way through the 1970 model year for the USA market.

 

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I brought this 1970 Coupe (1608) back from 24 years of storage recently...my father bought one new in Europe so it was a fun project.
Having owned numerous 105 / 115 Alfa GT’s over the years / decades I will say the Alfa drives much better, then again it cost about 30% more new!

 

My 1974 Fiat 124 Spider had the same wheels Flaviaman . I like your car , the color is period correct . What color is it ?

 

Found some pic's when i was 16yrs old, had Fiat 124 Sport Coupe, Modified with Abarth Cams, Pistons, Exhaust, Dual Webers, Metal flares, lowered, got pulled over a couple times by cops thinking it may be race car, No Bumpers, and IMSA Decal on rear lid. Had lot's of fun back then with it.
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Hi everyone......

Just ducked into this thread to say I have put my two 124 Spider projects into the Ads above.
They are actually an '82 (red), and an '83,(dark blue) so nameplates are "FIAT 2000 Spider".

Not much money involved, I need to pay the Storage Unit, and let them go.
Check it out!!

 

I thought about getting a 124 spider for FL. Good friend's son in law knew of a 2000 for sale and in excellent shape. Was excited until I drove it. It was totally uninspiring. They do look cool and I know nothing about the coupe.