What happens when a Fiat 600...

...mates with a GSX-R1000

Posted: 18 January 2012
by mark forsyth


You've got to admire the builder and driver of this GSX-R1000-engined Fiat 600.

It may not be easy grafting one engine from one vehicle into another but it's even harder, once you've managed it, to make it stop, turn grip and handle like this car. The original 636cc Fiat 600 (Seicento) could barely top 60mph so I think it's safe to assume that 'considerable modifications' have taken place here. 

Can we have some events like this in the UK, please? It's not like we're short of hills is it?

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Its a car.

Posted: 19/01/2012 at 16:27

...an ugly one too.

Posted: 19/01/2012 at 17:20


Aki
We have, their called hill climbs clearly Mark Forsyth's never been to one?

Posted: 23/01/2012 at 10:41

gis one

Posted: 24/01/2012 at 16:37

"Can we have some events like this in the UK, please? It's not like we're short of hills is it?"
Never heard of the British Hill Climb Championship? Some very clever DIY jobs race in the smaller capacity classes, bike engines are obviously very popular. The Prescott venue is holding a Festival of Bikes in April so its not all 4 wheelers, either.

Posted: 24/01/2012 at 18:22

When I was 18 I owned one of the original Fiat 600's. A great little car with a damn good engine [far better than it's baby sister the Fiat 500.] Back in 1968 when I was driving about in my little Fiat I noticed several 'modified' 3 wheelers about. One such beast was a thing called a Barkley/Berkley? which came out if the factory with a piffling little 2 stroke engine but some clever clogs had ditched the smoker and fitted a 700cc Royal Enfield Consterlation moter and boy did that thing shift. So here we are over 40 years on and someone has shoe horned a gixxer 1000 motor into a little Fiat 600.......... wow. I bet that shifts. lol

Posted: 25/01/2012 at 09:41


MF
Yes but the great UK hill climbs aren't held on closed public roads are they?

I have served my time in UK hillclimbing and still have the scars to prove it...

Posted: 25/01/2012 at 17:05

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