Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Fiat X1/9

While Fiat left America in 1982, the same year it stopped building the X1/9, Bertone kept production going through 1989, and a Malcolm Bricklin company kept importing them through 1987, which explains the model year on this 1987 Fiat X1/9 for sale on Hemmings.com. That also means that this is one of the last such […]

Six Degrees of Automotive Separation – Fiat

I promised you plenty more Fiat 500 pictures from the Chrysler media archives, so let’s use one for this week’s Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge. Of course, Fiat is a giant multi-national company with connections all over the globe and, possibly, to every car company that ever existed, so how is Fiat a […]

No kiss for winning?

As I mentioned when I posted the photo of the Jeep assembly line last week, Chrysler’s media site doesn’t have nearly as many vintage photos (“heritage photos,” as Chrysler calls them) as Ford’s, but there’s still some interesting nuggets in there. Of course, with the new Fiat 500 coming to the States shortly, Fiatsler trotted […]