A new restoration in ........... France

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A new restoration in ........... France

Postby gbraun » Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:34 pm

This car comes from california and I start a complet restoration. After to have dismounting all the parts, the car is going for a complet painting - I will do the same color bianco 222

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And the engine is going to be retrofitted

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby So Cal Mark » Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:50 pm

please keep posting pictures as the process evolves
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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby TwinFast » Thu Apr 13, 2017 11:41 pm

gbraun wrote:This car comes from california and I start a complet restoration. After to have dismounting all the parts, the car is going for a complet painting - I will do the same color bianco 222


Bienvenue l'ami. I'm in France too and also start one year ago the restoration of 78 Fiat Spider coming from ... California too. :D
You're in the right place for a huge informations for you new baby.
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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby RRoller123 » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:54 am

Nice! Glad you are on board, many friendly and helpful people here.

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby Sambo42 » Tue May 02, 2017 6:08 am

Bonjour et bienvenu! (D'Australie) - great to see your project here!

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby spider2081 » Tue May 02, 2017 8:44 am

Welcome to the group.
As others have mentioned please keep posting photo's

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby djape1977 » Wed May 03, 2017 4:10 am

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fiat.an ... sic.parts/

just finished a resto of 124 spider, you'll find plenty experience and parts there

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby Kta124 » Fri May 12, 2017 3:49 am

Bonjour!!!

I was wondering if I was the one of the only few french dude on the forum!! Mine is a '78 that comes from California too, I bought it there when living in CA and could not resist to bring it back to France with me!! I hope we could help each other, finding parts is harder here than in the US....
Where are you located in France?

PS: Si tu as besoin d'aide pour des traduction techniques n'hésites pas!
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gbraun
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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby gbraun » Fri May 12, 2017 4:05 pm

Hello,

I'm from Nantes, in the west of France. I just have finished the restoration of the engine and haven't keeping back the car from the bodybuilder yet. I didn't understand the problem with the pictures because I have followed the instruction ......

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby PhillySpider » Sat May 13, 2017 8:19 am

I'm on vacation in Paris this week...

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby gbraun » Wed May 17, 2017 2:59 pm

just 2 pictures, one of the finishing engine and an other from the bodybuilder, the car should be painting this week !

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby klweimer » Wed May 17, 2017 9:39 pm

Looks good!

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby djape1977 » Thu May 18, 2017 1:39 am

please remove those american side markers

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby PhillySpider » Thu May 18, 2017 10:24 am

djape1977 wrote:please remove those american side markers

Leave them, I like them...said the american :)

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Re: A new restoration in ........... France

Postby RRoller123 » Fri May 19, 2017 6:27 am

+1. Leave them on. They are far more visible and add to your safety margin compared to the small European markers. While at it, they can be wired up to flash along with the bumper markers as turn signal indicators.
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