Hi guys and thanks for the comments!

Nope the car has never seen nasty salty roads of the UK thankfully! It was originally delivered to Japan (good spot on the rectangular lenses!) where it was kept by an enthusiast before being shipped to NZ (again, no salty roads!) so I'm hoping she's a good one! She's due in from Perth w/c 11th May and then off to the indie for a timing belt/aux belt change etc and once that's done, it's happy days hopefully!

Cheers

Gary

Hi folks

I dropped Fiat Italy an email just asking for any info on the car so now have the supplying dealer in Japan - just need to find someone to translate the page so I can find out where the 'Contact Us' email listing is and Google doesn't cut it!

Also, it turns out my car was not actually registered until 15th June 2001 in Japan which is probably another reason for such low kms.

Cheers

G

I can translate for you

Put here the text!

Hi Gary,
Welcome aboard

Hi Gary,

Come to the FCCQ meeting tomorrow night, Thursday, and bring the info with you as we have several Italian members who would gladly translate for you.

I will email the latest magazine, with meeting details, to you.

Is the translation you require, Japanese or Italian?

Gimmo - it's in Japanese and it's a website so maybe I'll post that link to see if anyone can find the necessary 'contact us' link?

johnnybravoturbo - good to greet you here on this forum as opposed to FB!! Looking forward to getting the bits for my baby!

Possum - the translation would need to be in Japanese and it's from a website so will just post the link to see if anyone can fathom it out!

Cheers

Gary

Folks

This is the supplying dealer:-

http://hamamatsu.fgaj-dealer.jp/fiat/

Apparently the car comes with all service invoices from these guys (paperwork is in the car but car not here yet!) but an electronic copy of those would be good plus I'm after the key code card too hence why I need to drop them an email.

Cheers

Gary

Gary, you have an email with some helpful info, I hope.

Ah small world.

Your parts were sent this morning ,email also to confirm.

Good luck fitting them and let us see some piccys when you have the car Gary.

Hi JBT

Just picked up that email so thanks ever so much for that!

Pics will follow once I get my sticky hands on her!

Cheers

Gary

http://www.carsales.com.au/car/fiat/coupe/ I just found these!

The 1999 one has been on the market for quite some time and Gary looked at it. Don't think the owner really wants to sell it.

The red one is Wazza's.

Has anyone looked at the silver one, what's it like?

You could check with Wazza, as he would know the car. The photos have been taken at an Italian car show.

I spoke to the guy re the silver one a while back. It came from an English couple who emigrated to Italy and then it was somehow imported to here. The timing belt snapped and wrecked the engine so it had a rebuild in Italy before coming here. He has just the blue key and has admitted it has had paint in it's life but was cagey as to how much or where. The body kit was also fitted after market as it's not an LE or a Plus. All in all it didn't seem worth pursuing for me so I left it...

Gary

Oh and the white one is simply a museum piece - it was absolutely stunning as it has only done 25,000kms or so and has been kept garaged throughout it's life, hardly ever seeing the road. The guy who owns it is responsible for the certification of a lot of the handful of Fiat Coupes over here as he is qualified to do so but he is not interested in selling it really. He only has it on the market so he can say to his wife 'I'm trying to sell it honest!" I think!!

G

I'm guessing it will be with you in a day or so then, Gary?

So will your club membership card and (shh) keyring...

Well the parts all arrived (thanks JBT!) and the work is underway. A small 'issue' with the wrong water pump has hopefully been sorted but has delayed things a little so I'm still a few days away from getting her sorted and on the road....so very excited though!!

No membership card or (shh!) keyring as yet but looking forward to both! :-)

Cheers

Gary

No membership card or (shh!) keyring as yet but looking forward to both! :-)

Met with Gary and his family for coffee last Saturday morning.

After 10 1/2 years of Coupe ownership, I finally was able to park my Coupe beside another Coupe! Yes, they are rare "Downunder".

Gary's yellow beast is certainly a great example of our favourite Fiat.

Definitely.
I've never seen one. with hindsight I should have imported mine to WA...... maybe in the future.

Considering we are talking about OZ coupes has anybody seen the blue one on carsales?

Is it the same one on Gumtree? 47,000 KMS, 16vt?

No the blue one is a 20VT, it's been for sale on and off for a long time. The price has dropped significantly.

I haven't seen the 16vt before.

The Townsville Coupe was advertised a while back.

Looks like they had no takers.

Do you know anything about it? That would be 4 16VTs in Australia. I wonder if there are any others lurking.

I do not know anything about this one.

I am aware of another Blitz Blue that was for sale in Sydney a few years ago and ours = four.