Id forgotten these even existed, they used to be seen regularly until about the mid 80s. They invented the popular car in Brazil when they put a 1.0 liter engine on the Uno, and every other maker followed then but AFAIK never outsold FIAT on the 1.0 segment. I found it a refined Fiat, more powerful and logical that my past Fiats (124, 128) in the interior and controls placement. Drop in the ocean anyways. Required fields are marked *. Out here in Seattle, these would still exist since rust isnt a factor here and I do see my share of Fiat/Alfa Romeo/Lancia models, and the occasional Yugo for that matter. Spare components include a thermostat, brake master cylinder, and unused Brembo rear drums. I know people on here tend to remember poor build quality, but honestly, Ive owned many US and foreign cars from the 70s and 80s late in their life, and there really is no difference. For now, the rest of the brand is (a stunning) history. Call us anytime at 207.710.6699. I was around 8 or 9 years at the time, and I remember that my dad purchased one, used it for a few weeks and sold it for a small profit. The engine being shared with the Spider means the parts supply situation shouldnt be too horrible. I remember those were very common taxis in Barcelona. A few 128s, 124 and 850 Spiders. High Retail $14,550. Any Fiat 131 article would be sorely incomplete without mentioning its very successful rally racing career. 2.0L 1995CC l4 GAS DOHC Naturally Aspirated, La Canada Flintridge, California, United States, 1979 Fiat 131 (Brava) For Parts or Restoration. The guys brought the first car based mid sized pickup in Brazil, the Toro (think of it as 4/5 Honda Ridgeline) which is a huge sucess outselling any kind of truck around here expect for the small sized FIAT Strada. It was soon sold to a gentleman who drove it home to San Francisco and is now whereabouts unknown. $9.99 + $5.99 shipping. Right now both Alfa Romeo and Lancia are brain dead. If Im not mistaken in the 80s it was Europes second largest automaker and now Well I hope for the better but fear for the worse. Really miss my old Brava and have searched for several years to find another. Hopefully this will lead to the return of Alfa and a larger Fiat range! It's a 1980 fiat Brava, also known as a 131, and it's on Craigslist in White Plains, New York with a $3,500 asking price. Thank god, the replacement was nothing less than the 2nd series 1600 CL 4-door in a quite odd taupe color. Ive read more than once that VW wants Alfa Romeo. Not exactly the best circumstances in which to launch a mid-size family car. I'm hoping to not hear the ubiquitous F.I.A.T. This was a fun car. So if the Brava was the spiritual successor to the 1915 tourer, are the Viaggio and Dodge Dart the spiritual successors to the Brava? To see it on old or classic really videos is a blast. + Read More Save Search Saved (0) My Favorite Listings (0) 131 results Show 30 1950 Fiat 500C Topolino Current Bid: $10,000 Ends In: 1970 Fiat 500L Price $18,500 Offers 0 1966 Fiat 1500 1977 Fiat 131 Brava - VERY RARE Year: 1977 Mileage: 15,000 Location: Glen Cove, New York, United States 1980 FIAT Brava Year: 1980 Mileage: 51,600 Location: Somers, New York, United States 1979 Fiat 131 Brava Year: 1979 Mileage: 68,685 Location: Kent, Washington, United States 1979 Fiat 131 (Brava) For Parts or Restoration Year: 1979 Still have the Fiat bug I bought a 2012 Abarth and heres my 81 x19. Description of 1980 Fiat Brava: For Sale is my very rare 1980 FIAT Brava 4-door sedan. I take a quick look and see that it was just a fuel line that had gone bad, offered the money, towed it home, cleaned up the engine compartment, dropped in a new fuel line, vacuum, wash, wax and it was like new and ran like it was new. Motorland is a licensed classic car showroom and one-stop service center. Once my friend borrowed the car and took it to school, giving a group of us a ride. The body shells were uncommonly strong (the Fiat X1/9 is as well) with front and rear crumble zones built in. In Indonesia Fiat 131 Brava is very difficult to found it in recent year in the good condition.I found it in not good. I dont know where it spent most of its life, but it couldnt have been around here. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. For sale Fiat 131 Familiare 1.3 , year 1982 , the car is ori. $28.79, Our Price: On the conventional side it featured a live rear axle but it was unusually well located to give respectable handling.The rear suspension was a neat multi link affair rather than a leaf sprung cart axle. $32.79, On Sale For: This is the Fiat 124 Spider Fiat 131 brava parts catalog. Opinions expressed in this forum are those of the contributors and not of the website's owners, administrators or moderators who cannot accept any responsibility for the results of following any advice given by contributors. This 1978 Fiat 131 Brava coupe is said to have sat for 19 years before being partially refurbished by Chris Obert of Fiat Plus in Santa Cruz, California between 2011-2014. Has a beautiful Ferrari Corsa Red paint job. My uncle picked us up in one at the Munich airport in 1980, and I was impressed at what an airy and pleasant car it was to ride in. Splendid addition to our coverage; I was beginning to despair about ever having a 131 CC. to. Even should FCA continue losing market share, it is in the too big to fail category on both sides of the pond. If your reading this you know what the 100hp is like. ZU VERKAUFEN! For a car like this, I'd expect somewhere around the $4,500 to $5,500 mark would snag it. New caramel door panels were fitted under previous ownership. I bought a 1980 Brava with 39,000 miles on it from a Toyota dealer in 1986 or 1987 for $900 and found it to be quite usable, especially for a Fiat. Attempting to connect. The Bravas over all boxy shape means they look better integrated than something like a BMW 3-series though. As a replacement for the more well known 124 it sold only briefly from 1978 to 1982 the Brava was the North American version of the 131 Mirafiori. Should be back on the road in the spring of 2016. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1978 FIAT Brava Green 4-door Sedan Centerfold Vintage Print Ad at the best online prices at eBay! Mostly though, its the 124 Spider, the 850 Spider, the Alfa Romeo Spider (Veloce and Graduate), mostly of the 80s, though a few years back, someone had a pre 74 Alfa Spider, in red, though in very nice, unrestored condition, and I know it was pre 74, as it had the smaller chrome bumpers, and a few years back, also saw an older Alfa coupe, in dark green, I forget the model now on the road. And they maintained much of that momentum until more recent decades. soy dueo de un fiat brava modelo 1980 automatico necesito carroceria tengo 25 aos con el quien pueda ayudarme le estare agradecido. Sitting in the service area of the Fiat dealer back in the day. She jokes that FIAT stands for Fix It Again Tony. The car was now fighting a bunch of newer front-drive designs, but was still generally well-liked. Actually in the recent year my Collection Car are VW and Daihatsu. In europe they are very scarce now. I have not seen one since leaving CA 20 years ago; there are just none around these parts. Also, in my experience, Fiats are quite reliable- it is their dealers that are abominable. One of the mechanics I worked with had a 132 with the 1.8, and he told me both the 1.8 and 2.0 were pretty tough/hard to wear blocks. Checking for missed updates. Combine that with a shortage of dealers and mechanics, along with the USA consumer disregard of any maintenance, and you will always have people saying that the cars were crappy and unreliable.Rust? Your email address will not be published. A 1979 Fiat Super Brava sedan with 2.0-liter Twin Cam engine and five-speed-manual transmission, found in a Denver self-service junkyard. Fiat. And they were rightfor its day, it was a fantastic interior that rivaled many cars more expensive than it and downright blew away anything in its class. No dings/dents. You are not connected to real-time updates. Had two 79 Bravas growing up and have a 80 Spider 2000 now with the optional EFI. Then in 1973 I bought Fiat 110052 in Indonesia we called that car Fiat Cooper and in 1985 I sold that car and change to Fiat 1100 Deluxe 1966, Now I just dealing with my friend to buy his car Fiat 131 Brava 1983. The 13 rims are again a throw back to a different era as even humble cars these days seem to come with 18 and 19 chromed artillery wheels. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Fiat 131 Front Chrome Bumper New Original Crommodora with lights at the best online prices at eBay! The guys brought the first car based mid sized pickup in Brazil, the Toro (think of it as 4/5 Honda Ridgeline) which is a huge sucess outselling any kind of truck around here except for the small sized FIAT Strada. It may begin with Europe, not to talk about the (at least until now) failed comeback to USA market. 73 124 wagon. $198.79, On Sale For: No 128s either. It was one of those slow cars that was a lot of fun to push to its limit. I actually test drove one of these at a dealer in Orange County, California. As a start, I may be wrong but I believe the 131 hit US showrooms, about 1975. Average Retail $7,700. I think a variant (from the Turkish Tofas) is still in production in some African country, if you Google enough you may find it. Edit options. All contents 2023 The best vintage and classic cars for sale online | Bring a Trailer, Privacy Notice Fiat 131 124 Spider Lancia Beta HPE Scorpion Performance Intake Camshaft 4333582. Probably bigger than the trunks in some mid engined exotic machinery. Fiat Brava (North America 131) specifications: versions & types. For a short time it was advertised as built by robots not Robbos (Red Robbo BLs bolshy shop steward). MY FATHER before I was even born had a white 131 and great car compared to the rubbish aussie manufacturers were coming out with at the time.Lancia was outzapped by the japs in this land by the mid eighties,we had a used beta from 1987 to 1989 which by performance standards of the day would have been eaten alive by twin cam corollas and 1.8 litre pulsars even if the latters engine in terms of ccs was smaller taking the use of unleaded into account.an interesting fact would have been compare a 1.8 pulsar q,a then new for 89 corolla 1.6 and a tx3 out to a racetrack up against a beta 1800 and see who would win.it would have been the oriental twin cams who have the edge.if i had known anything on cars when it came time to upgrade the lancia for my father i would have suggested a pulsar or other fast hatch given there was nothing from europe that comes close in terms of performance of the day. The payoff was a compartment that was 24 inches long, 6 inches wide and a depth of 4 inches. Whats Italian for what noise? or they all do that? or you didnt follow the correct oil change schedule? or the 2.7 engine is considered a consumable item- like brake pads.. Rare Campognolo wheels shown are NOT included with this sale but can be purchased for an additional amount. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. $16.00. $57.79, Our Price: In global markets, it had different names in this period including Supermirafiori and Super Brava. Introduced to Europe in 1974 the 131 was a relatively conventional, yet advanced in many respects, three box design with rear wheel drive. One of the rare cases where I like the 4-doors styling best. Anyone else but me thinking, AMC, Hudson and the like? The 131 also helped contribute to the volume and was generally well received by the press. an important part of entry for Fiat and they once had a huge parts depot here, but even 124 Spiders are rare here. Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1979 FIAT 131 Brava 2 Door Coupe across different levels of condition. I paid him $500 bucks for it last September 2014 and I am in the process of resurrecting it for the spring/summer. $16.79, Our Price: Initial engines were carried over from the 124 but still featured aluminum heads with double overhead valves available which was still quite a novelty especially in its price class. . I like the 131 and wish I could have one, a good project would be an ITB EFI conversion + Megaskirt and possibly a turbo, but down here they are like hens teeth. Like many European cars of the era the big, North American specification impact bumpers dont do the cars any favors in the looks department. The Fiat 124 had a moderately successful run in the US, but its successor never quite caught on. $3.79, Our Price: He was a (retired) Rolls Royce engineer (jet engines) engineer who worked (in a very minor capacity) on the flying bedstead, the Harrier jump jet test device. People will often assume because a car is Italian, French or British it is automatically an unreliable pile of crap. It was broken into and the dash got hacked up you cant see it in the pic. After some 20-22 lessons I took the test and passed (in my country only 35% of the people passed the driving test at the first go in those years, now its 41%), Im still sure this car helped by giving me confidence. California car - NO rust EVER. "definition" that we hear every time a Fiat is mentioned, but it's hard to avoid that. It was in mint condition and had been sitting in a field for a few years. It was advertised on posters as, The Car Built by Robots. To which the local Italian comedians would add, and Driven by Idiots.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Producing Old Motors takes considerable time and effort. The SuperBravas also distinguished themselves in their only half year of existence with a really cool (and totally impractical) Citroen-like uni-spoke steering wheel. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Having owned a classic 3 box sedan, I could have seen myself behind the wheel of another 3 box sedan. Options $0. Even here in road salt free New Orleans the Brava was a serious, serial rustmobile with electrical issues that would make Lucas, The Prince Of Darkness, proud. Probably more survivors in the US than the UK,ages since I saw one.The twin cam engine had a wonderful growl to it. Lancia, however, is a dead duck of a marque. $34.79, On Sale For: (Turkish built and designed but using names from an antiquated Chrysler CKD arrangement or something). The stock carburetors and intake components are included in the sale along with removed smog equipment, though the seller notes that the air pump does not work. A lot of the Fiat fans swapped to Lada or Alfa after they left. At the time, cheap and fun to drive. How the automotive situation has changed in 5 years. Boanos handsome 2-door sedan was exaggerated for the 131 Abarth by Bertone, who designed the wide-body look of the Abarth. By 1980 HP on a carbureted engine was rated at 86. 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