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Kinja'd!!! "AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
08/31/2018 at 09:21 • Filed to: Fiat 500, advertising, Gulf livery

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Part of a German print advertisement:

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More or less: “With racetrack juice your car perhaps seems to be a couple of ponies more powerful. That is pure imagination, however”


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AuthiCooper1300
08/31/2018 at 10:15

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That poor 500 :(


Kinja'd!!! Pickup_man > AuthiCooper1300
08/31/2018 at 10:20

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This has given me an idea.... CBX powered 500.... Somebody make it happen. 


Kinja'd!!! AuthiCooper1300 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
08/31/2018 at 10:28

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Nah, m o s t l i k e l y it’s a purely cosmetic modification just for the ad. Had they done anything serious the engine lid would have been up.


Kinja'd!!! AuthiCooper1300 > Pickup_man
08/31/2018 at 10:31

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The ad is from 1972, more or less.

A t t h e t i m e , e n g i n e b i k e s w a p s w e r e a l m o s t u n h e a r d o f . . . I wonder what the casual reader w a s supposed to think the engine was. P o r s c h e 9 1 1 , m a y b e ?


Kinja'd!!! Pickup_man > AuthiCooper1300
08/31/2018 at 10:35

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¯\_()_/¯


Kinja'd!!! RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > AuthiCooper1300
08/31/2018 at 11:46

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Well, it is on a lift the normal body could never have taken without a lot of modification and the fuel filler is in the wrong place.