Just bought a new car...

fitchesbass · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 12:41:26 AM

A Fiat X1/9 (Bertone) for $400. It's our lemons car for the upcoming season.

Anyway, we are trying to come up with some clever themes... if you have any good Italian or otherwise funny/clever FIAT themes post them up.

Current discussions:
Fix It Again Tony
Gweedos (and dressing the car and us to meet the part)
Pizza delivery car

Thanks for your input

P4lm3r · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 05:29:33 PM

cheu_f50 · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 05:45:51 PM

good choice, which lemons are you running?

Six · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 07:43:03 PM

thats pretty cool

fitchesbass · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:33:03 PM

We picked up the car today in a Uhaul. A little more rusted than we thought it would (eek) but we can do some rust repair while we install the roll cage. We bought it off ebay so it was sight unseen.

We are shooting for the June Lemons race at Summit Point. We'll see how it goes, i'm excited and anxious at the same time, being it will be my first time wheel-to-wheel racing. But there is a first for everything - and this event looks like just too much fun. The rest of our team is pretty good - we all are very mechanically inclined and have pretty good degree of car work / fabrication in our past. And we have some good car / motorcycle guys as part of the team.

tbaker474 · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:45:17 PM

I was under the impression that Lemons required a fully caged vehicle. Have they relaxed the requirements recently?

newtonm3 · Mon, Jan-18-2010, 01:46:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tbaker474

I was under the impression that Lemons required a fully caged vehicle. Have they relaxed the requirements recently?

now that you are in school for cars you should sign up for this race,

F1 here we come

fitchesbass · Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:51:04 PM

Im sorry - yes it is a full cage. We are going to have to build/fab one for the car.

fitchesbass · Mon, Jan-18-2010, 02:12:34 AM

Here is our acquisition... it needs some TLC to say the least... but it's a start and what does one expect for sub $500? LOL.

Plus, we were shooting for something unique, rather than running an E30 which seems to be one of the most popular cars in lemons.

Let the fun begin.

fitchesbass · Mon, May-17-2010, 03:34:58 AM

UPDATE:

After many many hours of blood, sweat and tears, we finally finished most the prep of our lemons car. (minus the paint scheme LOL)

We took it out on the Pocono Raceway (south course) this past week for testing and had a blast. It handles like a dream - and although we nearly rebuilt the entire engine with salvage performance parts, it doesn't have a lot of BHP.

But the cornering and everything else are a bunch of fun.

Here is a video from last week:
http://vimeo.com/11795293

Sun, Jan-17-2010, 12:41:26 AM	#1
fitchesbass Like a carpenter that makes stairs Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15,861 Reputation: 0	Just bought a new car... A Fiat X1/9 (Bertone) for $400. It's our lemons car for the upcoming season. Anyway, we are trying to come up with some clever themes... if you have any good Italian or otherwise funny/clever FIAT themes post them up. Current discussions: Fix It Again Tony Gweedos (and dressing the car and us to meet the part) Pizza delivery car Thanks for your input

Sun, Jan-17-2010, 07:43:03 PM	#4
Six Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,413 Reputation: 0	thats pretty cool __________________ -Brian

Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:33:03 PM	#5
fitchesbass Like a carpenter that makes stairs Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15,861 Reputation: 0	We picked up the car today in a Uhaul. A little more rusted than we thought it would (eek) but we can do some rust repair while we install the roll cage. We bought it off ebay so it was sight unseen. We are shooting for the June Lemons race at Summit Point. We'll see how it goes, i'm excited and anxious at the same time, being it will be my first time wheel-to-wheel racing. But there is a first for everything - and this event looks like just too much fun. The rest of our team is pretty good - we all are very mechanically inclined and have pretty good degree of car work / fabrication in our past. And we have some good car / motorcycle guys as part of the team. Last edited by fitchesbass; Mon, May-17-2010 at 03:44:42 AM.

Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:45:17 PM	#6
tbaker474 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,399 In the garage: '98 BMW M3 '09 MINI COOPER Reputation: 0	I was under the impression that Lemons required a fully caged vehicle. Have they relaxed the requirements recently? __________________

Mon, Jan-18-2010, 02:12:34 AM	#9
fitchesbass Like a carpenter that makes stairs Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15,861 Reputation: 0	Here is our acquisition... it needs some TLC to say the least... but it's a start and what does one expect for sub $500? LOL. Plus, we were shooting for something unique, rather than running an E30 which seems to be one of the most popular cars in lemons. Let the fun begin. Last edited by fitchesbass; Mon, Jan-18-2010 at 02:16:05 AM.

Sun, Jan-17-2010, 10:51:04 PM	#8
fitchesbass Like a carpenter that makes stairs Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15,861 Reputation: 0	Im sorry - yes it is a full cage. We are going to have to build/fab one for the car.

Mon, May-17-2010, 03:34:58 AM	#10
fitchesbass Like a carpenter that makes stairs Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 15,861 Reputation: 0	UPDATE: After many many hours of blood, sweat and tears, we finally finished most the prep of our lemons car. (minus the paint scheme LOL) We took it out on the Pocono Raceway (south course) this past week for testing and had a blast. It handles like a dream - and although we nearly rebuilt the entire engine with salvage performance parts, it doesn't have a lot of BHP. But the cornering and everything else are a bunch of fun. Here is a video from last week: http://vimeo.com/11795293 Last edited by fitchesbass; Mon, May-17-2010 at 03:43:27 AM.

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