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Fred sent me a copy of the article. As interesting as it is, and as fun a car the X-1/9 is, after owning two I don't think I want another. Even with a Honda engine, it's still a Fiat, and by definition, it's hard to keep it together.
To quote my wife after the second one wouldn't start after a stop, "I'm never riding in this car again." That was the end of my second X-1/9.
Fred sent me a copy of the article. As interesting as it is, and as fun a car the X-1/9 is, after owning two I don't think I want another. Even with a Honda engine, it's still a Fiat, and by definition, it's hard to keep it together.
To quote my wife after the second one wouldn't start after a stop, "I'm never riding in this car again." That was the end of my second X-1/9.
Back in 1974 I had a room mate that owned an X-1/9. That is when I learned that FIAT is not a name, but an acronym for Fix It Again Tony.
I would take one of these in a heartbeat...if they weren't so pricey. I owned 4 X1/9s over the years and loved them. Drove my buddy's E-Mod SCCA monster...an X1/9 stripped down to ~1700lbs, powered by a turbo 13B rotary (300+ H.P.).
I would take one of these in a heartbeat...if they weren't so pricey. I owned 4 X1/9s over the years and loved them. Drove my buddy's E-Mod SCCA monster...an X1/9 stripped down to ~1700lbs, powered by a turbo 13B rotary (300+ H.P.).
Its the strangest thing. Some X-1/9 owners think the car great. Others think that it was a lot of fun, but almost impossible to keep running. I had two and they were so unreliable, so poorly built and so hard to keep running that I'd never buy another one.
Check out the one at www.professionalautoexchange.com Wonder what the price is?
So my question to Rob is which was worse for reliability the fiat or the triumph?
Check out the one at www.professionalautoexchange.com Wonder what the price is?
So my question to Rob is which was worse for reliability the fiat or the triumph?
That's a real tough question. I think I had more problems with the Fiat, but my TR-6 was pretty bad as well. The difference was that something on the TR-6 was always broken, but the car would run. The X-1/9 simply wouldn't run. My TR-6 soured me on British cars and my Fiat did the same for Italian cars. When Liz and I finally got rid of my original X-1/9 in 1982 we bought our first Honda Accord. It was like a breath of fresh air.
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