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Car Of The Day: September 30, 2010; Zylmex '74 Fiat 131 Abarth Rallye
Topic Started: Sep 30 2010, 01:32 AM (1,255 Views)
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Today's car of the day is Zylmex's 1974 Fiat 131 Abarth Rallye.

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The Fiat 131, additionally called "Mirafiori", is a small/medium family car produced by the Italian car manufacturer Fiat from 1974 to 1984. It was exhibited at 1974 Turin Motor Show.

The 131 was the replacement for the successful Fiat 124, and available as a 2-door and 4-door saloon and 5-door estate. The 131 was given the Mirafiori name after the Turin suburb where the cars were produced. Naming the car in this way marked a break with the former Fiat convention, established in the 1960s, of naming their mainstream models only with a three digit number, and it set the pattern for Fiat to adopt Anglo-American style car naming practice, with carefully chosen names for subsequent new models. Initially, the 131 was offered with 1.3 L and 1.6 L single overhead camshaft engines. Revisions were made in 1978 and 1981, and all models were produced until production ceased in 1984.

1,513,800 units total were produced in Italy.


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_131

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Found this one at a rummage sale with Disney stickers plastered all over it, and several bleeding green and white tampos underneath that! With a bit of work, this one came out as a winner.

...A winner at only $0.05 CAD!

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The Fiat 131 employed construction techniques and technologies typical of its day. The body was a monocoque type, made of conventional steel. Designed and styled on the typical three-box design, with distinct boxes for the engine compartment, passenger compartment, and boot.

The major mechanical components were also conventional and contemporary, but with some notable advances. In basic terms, the 131 employs a front engine, rear-wheel drive layout, whereby the engine is mounted in the front of the car, longitudinally in a north-south orientation. The gearbox is mounted directly behind the engine, and a tubular propeller shaft, under the transmission "tunnel", transmits the drive to a solid live rear axle.

The engines were all straight-4 types, derived from the engines used in the outgoing 124 range, with a cast iron cylinder block and aluminium alloy cylinder head, either pushrod with chain drive camshaft or double (DOHC) overhead camshaft, driven by a single rubber/kevlar toothed timing belt. Fuel supply was via a single Weber ADF twin-choke carburettor, fed from a trunk mounted steel fuel tank. Traditional contact breaker ignition systems were used, usually with Marelli distributors.

The suspension system utilised fully independent front suspension, with MacPherson struts, track control arms and anti-roll bar. The rear suspension was quite advanced (when using a solid live rear axle), in that the rear axle was controlled by double unequal length trailing arms and a panhard rod, with coil springs and direct acting dampers. This design proved far superior to many of its contemporaries, especially with vehicle stability and handling.

The braking system was also typical; the front brakes were disc brakes, using a solid iron disc and a single-piston sliding caliper. The rears were drum brakes, utilising leading and trailing shoe design operated by a dual piston fixed slave cylinder. They were operated hydraulically, with a tandem master cylinder assisted by a vacuum servo using two separate circuits. A rear mounted load sensing valve varied the bias of effort applied to the rear brakes, dependent on the load being carried (and also the pitch dynamics caused by braking effort and road levels). A centrally located floor mounted handbrake operated on the rears using bowden cables.


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Swifty
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You can't beat that price! Came out great with a little work. :thumbup:
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Pretty cool, I approve :thumbup:
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It came out well!

Knocked off, of course, from the Matchbox #9. There's the common version (the first variation), and then the less known Italian livery that appeared just after the Universal takeover.
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Most of you already know that I'm not a big fan of "rally" cars done by diecasters, as they seem to muck them up with ugly graphics and orange glass. This one looks good this way, showing the casting more than some eye twisting graphics. I see Germaine, there WERE some graphics that you removed, an excellent decision on your part.

I would say there is no doubt what brand car this is, looking at the front view!

Rally version set aside, I realize now that Fiat is not a well represented maker of autos in recent years with the popular (inexpensive brands) casters. With the Fiat control of Chrysler, that may change in the near future with HW/Matchbox. But even Maisto, Motormax, Welly haven't been doing any Fiats. Maybe Realtoy? I wonder if licensing is a hurdle?

LOL, CAD $0.05 ! Germaine, that means that car would have sold for $0 here, or minus $0.01-- the owner would have had to pay you to take it! :P
Edited by ivantt, Sep 30 2010, 12:45 PM.
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that will be the new Chrysler corp .car.
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this one is not a Zylmex, nor is it a Matchbox:

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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
I wonder if that last one could be a Faie model? Nobody help me. I'm going to have to study that pic and see if I'm right or not... ;)

Side note- does anyone have a good list of Faie castings? I don't think I have many (if any!) in my collection.
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