Have you tried Middle Barton Garage in Oxon?  They specialise in classic Abarths and may be able to help.

this ones a nice colour

My first ever car was a Fiat 850 Sport - God how I loved that car !!!!

Every time I come across a good example I become all sentimental

Yes I'm going to have a go on that one later, seems a gen car, but not had chance to see it, so always a risk buying blind.....did it some years ago, with a Panda Sisley.....looked great in the add, so bought it, got the train, saw the car, said, your joking ?, got the next train, and went home with my money.....

keep you posted if I buy it or not.......

cheers Ray

well, bought the little blighter, picking it up saturday.....need some Cromodoro wheels now.........

There was a retired farmer who lived 1/2mile from my folks place, who used to let us store several of our older vehicles in his redundant barns.

He had a load of stuff of his own in the largest shed, which included a pair of these 850 Sports in that exact colour which had been stored for some 20-odd years.  One of them was particularly cool as it even had little front wing mounted flags on poles where it had functioned as the diplomatic car for the Ambassador of Congo   

Fred eventually tried to sell them at Beaulieu autojumble one year and had someone coming to view them.  At 86 he went out and pushed them both to one end of the barn to make it easier the next day and that night he had a heart attack and died.  Worst thing was the prospective buyer never turned up or contacted the family again.

When he died I tried to get hold of one of them, but the family wouldn't let anyone near them after the event and I've no idea what became of them 


Anyway, side-story aside - what a nice way to start the weekend!  I hope it's as much fun as it looks Mesrine 

Very nice indeed, my dad had one (red) in amongst a bunch of other Abarths and Fiats, so it's nice to see one around

Congrats on a lovely car