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(don't laugh) this is the closest I ever came
to owning a mid-engined exotic:
Just stumbled across these pics; taken in 1976. I bought this 1975 X/19 from a girl that bought it new a year before... and was about to be repossessed. Only had about 8500 miles on it. A small car, the pics make it look bigger than it really was. Engine behind the seats; it was fun to drive... but you'd never win a race with it. Manual trans; one of the last vehicles I owned that was manual. Kept for about 18 months. It's not a Fiero ! |
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Was expecting a Corvair...
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I had one of these. Looked just like it, except interior was black. It was a neat little car even with the 4 cyl. Would have preferred the 6, but it was won in a card game. No choices on options.
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I always thought the X1/9 was a cool car. Never drove one.
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At my first job, we had a '66 V-dub as a parts delivery car. Thing had bigger jugs, carb work, ported heads, Porsche rocker arms...12 volt. We were out in it a little after closing (5 hours after closing) when we ran across two guys in an X 1/9 at a stop light. Man, it was on! Light turns and we're wide ass open, yankin' gears. It was close, but we were pulling him ever so slowly.
That's when I noticed we hadn't really pulled away from anybody behind us at the light. We were racing our asses off and nobody but us even knew. |
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Down here in '98 or so I bought a Fiero Formula '88 had the glass top....that little thing could scat pretty good, once I got dun modding the engine a little bit it was only a 2.8.....white with black stripes/markings.....
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I had two friends that had X1/9's and they were a fun car to drive. Not much on raw HP but that made you become extremely smooth.
Bob had a '74 X1/9 and I helped hopped it up. Bigger cam, header and exhaust plus rejetted the carb on the "large" 1.5L engine. Also put wider tires on it. That handled like a go kart and could really shine in the twisties. Karl had a '80 X1/9 that he kept immaculate. He purchased it when he was in the Navy on sub duty ( out of NH ) One late winter day he came back down to PA and it had duct tape on the lower part of the driver's door. I asked what happened and he said he got stuffed into a snow bank by a state snow plow truck. |
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