Fiat Coupe Club UK
Convertible anyone??!!
Posted By: Anonymous
Convertible anyone??!! - 21/12/2005 22:49
there was indeed a convertible version of the fiat coupe.
See link below:
www.fiatbarchetta.com/prototype/birth.html [image]http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a205/petebarchetta/c2ndf.jpg[/image]
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 06:58
I have seen a picture of a 'concept' coupe convertible and it looked the absolute dogs boll*x. Not like the toy-ish version you found. (sorry for swearing, but it was essential)
Like an idiot I never saved the pic, but I am sure someone will have it... I am sure the car was white, or pearlescant or something
I will also ask good ol' mum tomorrow to ask about in Turin what the deal was with that. She might be able to find out what the score was with that.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 07:02
Clicky That will be this one then <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: Cappo
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 07:05
rmcfar, the pic you refer to was a photoshop jobbie. Been aired on here several times. You could tell, the shadows were all wrong, showing the roofline of the real car in the original pic. The pics in this post look like there was actually a plaster model of a topless Coupe tho.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 07:18
You might all be right, that was the pic - trousers are suitably moist - and it may well be a fake.
The shadow is unpredictable as some of it falls outside of view under the kerb. I will forward to the powers that be in fiat though and find out
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 16:21
thank god there is no convert-version of the coupe. the barch' looks nice , but the coupe lines dont mesh with details of a convert'.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 19:07
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You might all be right, that was the pic - trousers are suitably moist - and it may well be a fake.
The shadow is unpredictable as some of it falls outside of view under the kerb. I will forward to the powers that be in fiat though and find out
It is definantly fake, though i reaelly wish it wasn't. SOmewhere there i a picture of the original before it was photoshopped
Posted By: Cappo
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 19:13
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You might all be right, that was the pic - trousers are suitably moist - and it may well be a fake.
The shadow is unpredictable as some of it falls outside of view under the kerb. I will forward to the powers that be in fiat though and find out
It is definantly fake, though i reaelly wish it wasn't. SOmewhere there i a picture of the original before it was photoshopped
Unless of course the REAL convertible was photoshopped to add a roof, just to fool everybody..... 
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 22/12/2005 19:56
I have seen one in white.
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Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 23/12/2005 00:27
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You might all be right, that was the pic - trousers are suitably moist - and it may well be a fake.
The shadow is unpredictable as some of it falls outside of view under the kerb. I will forward to the powers that be in fiat though and find out
It is definantly fake, though i reaelly wish it wasn't. SOmewhere there i a picture of the original before it was photoshopped
Unless of course the REAL convertible was photoshopped to add a roof, just to fool everybody.....
True, but i would have a bet with you that it was the other way round lol
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 24/12/2005 05:02
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You might all be right, that was the pic - trousers are suitably moist - and it may well be a fake.
The shadow is unpredictable as some of it falls outside of view under the kerb. I will forward to the powers that be in fiat though and find out
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It is definantly fake, though i reaelly wish it wasn't. SOmewhere there i a picture of the original before it was photoshopped
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Unless of course the REAL convertible was photoshopped to add a roof, just to fool everybody.....
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True, but i would have a bet with you that it was the other way round lol
Or is it?? 
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 24/12/2005 18:25
Lol, it's definately a photoshop. I think KJ made it quite a few years ago? It's a good effort anyway and it had quite a few people fooled so far!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 25/12/2005 08:07
LoL. I wouldnt like a convertible one to be honest. I think it would look like a bmw m3 convertible.... bathtub on wheels!!
Ross
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LoL. I wouldnt like a convertible one to be honest. I think it would look like a bmw m3 convertible.... bathtub on wheels!!
Ross
Mate - tell me that looks like a bathtub!! I have a different word for it, sex 
http://www.fiatcoupe.net/pop_picdisplay.php?image=pics/specpics/bigfoto06.jpg
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 26/12/2005 02:01
The designe of the coope is totaly gone.
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Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 26/12/2005 02:03
Mate - That looks like a bathtub!!!
Ross
I think that looks fantastic, not at all like a bathtub, and would have been a massive seller. Still horses for courses. My missus says she wouldn't see me if I had a yellow coupe
Posted By: ali_hire
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 04/01/2006 21:57
I think the photoshopped convertible looks great. I would love to see someone with enough time and money have a go at making one. I reckon it would be nigh on impossible though.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 04/01/2006 23:59
Nothing's impossible if you have the time and the money.
And the people in the know how.
i noticed this picture before i joined your site and i was very impressed if it was a photoshop.
had me fooled
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 05/01/2006 02:05
Bathtub
you need to get down to specsavers for the sale
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 17/01/2008 01:08
Well I think it's really smart lookin.
Posted By: Begbie
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 17/01/2008 01:11
nothing like bringing a 2 year thread up!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 17/01/2008 01:18
I was just crusing through some old stuff.
Only joined last year so I've missed a lot.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 17/01/2008 15:41
It's good that you use the search function...not everyone does
Posted By: Sedicivalvole
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 17/01/2008 16:59
Bah search function doesn't like me
So I don't like it!
Besides Begbie we have not all been around since John Lee's Sedici website
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 28/01/2008 17:52
I love the Fiat coupe convertible.
today i searched all posts in this forum to find a discution about it.
i want to make a fiat coupe look like that.
i have only a problem. i will make it myself and i don;t know if i can register it.:(
any ideas
Posted By: JimO
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 28/01/2008 18:05
What do you mean register it?
The fiat coupe convertible is just a picture, that has been mocked up, it has never been built before.
To do it for real, would require lots of body strengthening, good luck
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 28/01/2008 19:36
Mad Mike I hope you do make a Coupe convertible, it would probably be the only one in the world and we'd love to see it
Posted By: bockers
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 28/01/2008 20:54
wibble wobble wibble wabble jelly on a plate
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 14:40
i'm looking to buy a car for my cabrio project.
i'll give you more details about this project in a month or 2
wish me luck
What, like
this one.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 16:32
lol, is that one of your scrapers?
Posted By: stan
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 17:09
Hmmm, it would certainly be a cure for my Speed Pink roof, just a bit of a drastic option though.....
It was a shell going off to be weighed in so before filling it up with scrap I chopped it to see how much work is involed with making a convertible.
It will make a nice project next year, I can see a chrome rollover cage being fitted for safety, but it has to be the right shell and colour first, probobly going to be a speed red with a faded roof
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 21:02
Ohhhhhh thats gonna be a sweet project, is it actually MOT passable if you do?
I imagine a lot of strengthening work's gonna be needed!
Phill
It'll need a VIC test for the MOT but I've been through this before with roof chops.
The cage is the key with the strengtening, six points with chassis cross bracing, somehow
I've got to work that one out yet.
It'll probably take 12mths worth of work to complete, 3 if I go at it full time but I've got to earn my bread and butter at the same time and finish my
Hybrid track car first
Posted By: stan
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 23:20
It will make a nice project next year, I can see a chrome rollover cage being fitted for safety, but it has to be the right shell and colour first,
probobly going to be a speed red with a faded roof You horrid, horrid person you!
I was just about to *big you up* on the forum, now I shan't!
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Convertible anyone??!! - 02/05/2008 23:26
so will it have a soft top or not.
if not i like the sound of the "coupe roadster"!!
so will it have a soft top or not.
if not i like the sound of the "coupe roadster"!!
I don't think i'll bother dave, I'll look into it maybe after the cars finished but it's going to be more of a sunny weekend toy really.
Oh and mad_mike I didn't mean to steal your thunder mate, pm me maybe we could work together on this one.
Joe