New member in France

[geert]

hallo,

welcome !

your car will run fine on 95 ron, without any lead substitute.

groeten, Geert.

[corbara]

Thanks Geert, that's the best news i've had all day...

[launieg]

Welcome. Very nice looking car! I love the clean but elegant look.

I've been to Courchevel (decades ago). Are you anywhere near that ski area?

[corbara]

Thanks for the welcome!
Yes, we're about an hour away from Courchevel. I live in Val d'Isère which is another big ski area. Has "Olympic Fever" hit BC yet?

[Snoopy]

So you can skiing all the day
I´m there some years ago for skiing. Very nice..

[corbara]

Sure Snoopy...ski all winter and drive the Spider all summer. ...I wish!! Not quite but it is a nice part of the world to live in especially as we're just next to Italy and Switzerland which make for great drives in the summer. We're only 70kms from Turin (as the crow flies) so next summer i'll have to drop by and check out the Pininfarina museum, etc...

Does anyone know exactly where the spiders were built when badged by Pininfarina? Did they have only one production site and does anyone know the name and location? Did Pininfarina assemble ALL the spiders, even pre 1982 or were they built/assembled in a Fiat factory pre 1982??

Lots of questions I know but I find the whole thing fascinating. What really amazes me is "why did Pininfarina go to so much trouble to make so many changes on their last cars (1985.5s) if production was to stop in July 1985"? Strange no?

I'm not a history buff but if anyone can shed any light on all this i'd be grateful.
Thanks for all the help so far. This site is great... I can't believe that so many people have so much detailed knowledge about these superb cars.
David

[Snoopy]

Pininfarina build and sold the eurospiders after 1982/83 in Turin. Before they do it together with Fiat.
http://www.pininfarina.com/index/storia ... i/collFiat
They stop 1985 because it was not a "big" success and the need the factory for another car the Cadillac Allanté
There are some nices books about the history of the spider and many sources in the internet.

[narfire]

Welcome David.
I never made it to Val d'lsere , but did hang around Chamonix for several weeks in my youth.
Nice looking car, I guess you park it in the winter like much of us do in the northern climes.

The Olympic fever has hit some and olympic aversion has hit many. The weather on the local mountains where the moguls and freestyle are taking place, is not the greatest at the moment, but cooler weather and snow is hopfully comming.
Security and roads being closed for everything but busses and ticket prices are such, that some are heading out of town.
It is the talk of the day for the 2 million or so in the lower mainland area thats for sure.
I'm looking forward to the alpine events, Whistler has a wild downhill course.
Chris

[katsi]

Welcome, Nice car. Really clean. Would love to see the inside.

Gunsmith, you are too much

[Gunsmith]

Finally somebody got it! I thought it was just lost into obscurity?

Learn more here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgV_IaZheDE

[Darsella1]

a lot of the last cars are in the swiss

last spider ZFR124DSO 05511780

The last spider is 5511940 according to Pininfarina not what is on people's web sites. I have VIN# as high as 5511936 & 5511935, both were for sale in Colorado several years ago. The last few are actually in the USA as Micheal Blumberg purchased them at 5-6 at a time and imported them here.

What I am finding is that the VIN#'s are not in an exact order and there was not actually 1,940 built. They made the Volumex on the same production line so some of those Vin's were turned into Volumex's. They made the Volumex off & on in batches using 84, 85 & 85.5 cars. But people sometimes record the Volumex as a different Vin on the german registry, so it's difficult to tell which vin turned into what car.

This is why I started the vin list and also started recording the production dates (inside the door tag).