1984 Fiat Spider Pininfarina Azzurra 70K Miles Mint Condition No Reserve

1984 Fiat 124 Spider Description

Since the 1950s, Fiat had marketed a series of attractive convertibles (Spiders) in the U.S., usually designed by Pininfarina. They were generally a lower price and lower performance alternative to Alfa Romeo Spiders. The last series sold in the U.S. was to be the longest lived of these.

First known as the 124 Spider, when introduced in 1966, the car sported a 1500 cc DOHC four-cylinder engine that over the years went up and down in displacement several times, with most of the cars sold in the U.S. being 1756 cc and 1995 cc, both variants equipped with a single Weber carburetor. Fuel injection was added to California cars first in 1980 and to the other 49 State cars later that year. All of the 1995 cc cars (known as Spider 2000s) are quite well appointed and sport one of the best designed manual convertible tops ever. Some came with leather and all feature a real wood instrument panel and handsome Veglia gauges.

Following Fiat’s exit from the U.S. market in 1983, Pininfarina offered the car for sale for another two years as the Pininfarina Azzurra. Build quality of these final cars is said to be quite good.After more than 50 years of designing cars for other companies, Pininfarina became a true automobile manufacturer, taking over from Fiat the company's most successful design, the Sport Spider. To thistimelesssports car design, Pininfarina added over 100 design and engineering improvements, and renamed this car "The Azzurra"in America and"Spider Europa"in Europe. The last of the 124 Spiders had a multitude ofupgrades makingit the most desirable of all the models.