Ok, let’s make it official; I’m an AUTOholic, at least when it comes to vintage stuff in need of rescue. Thus it’s hardly a surprise I just couldn’t say no to this little Fiat Spider 1500 when it appeared for sale on http://www.classicdigest.com. I was sold and so was the spider!



To follow the story go to: http://www.classicdigest.com/readers-st ... eas/55/501

I'll try to update the blog as often as I can.

Cheers Andreas

Congratulations. I love the 1500s and will he watching your restoration with interest.

me too, keep us posted.

What a cool Spider. Love the rally photos. She's a beauty.

Thanks guys for your kind words. I'll make sure to keep you posted : )

Regs Andreas

Looks like an awesome project

Love the subject tag

4uall wrote:Looks like an awesome project

Love the subject tag

Yep, thought it would be 4uall's car

Nice plates -eh..mean tags : )

Anyway, it turns out the first owner of the spider, Jussi Lappi-Seppälä was a bit of a celebrity in Finland. In his early years he used to write boys' adventure books much like "the famous five"

Later on he got into politics and became a member of the parliament (conservative coalition party). Which in turn, led him to become the head of the ministry of housing and communications. This caused a bit of a controversy as the architects’' union in Finland was backing Alvar Aalto for the office...as a result members og the union went to boycott the ministry for four years...Imagine that!

The engine's in and running sweet!

http://www.classicdigest.com/readers-st ... eas/55/908

It's been a while...Anyway, the Spider is running, amazingly well with those 30+ years old tyres on snow. To see the whole story so far go to part 2 at: http://www.classicdigest.com/readers-st ... s/112/1232

That is a beautiful car.