FIAT America Tech Meeting

I recently attended the FIAT America Tech Session. Not sure what to expect I took my lo-tech memory device and headed out in my sensible car for a 90 minute drive to beautiful Gilroy, California. I pulled up the the location and saw some X1/9's, a 124 Spider and an early 850 Spider. "AWESOME!!!" I thought to myself. I met Gary and Pat, two very knowledgeable FIAT aficionados, and was introduced to several other people, so many people I can't remember all of their names. They say it's the first thing that goes. Anyway, the tech session was more of an opportunity to work on your car and have someone there with the knowledge to help you out if you got stuck and needed an extra set of eyes, hands or ears. I got to talking with Pat and told him about my Coupe and how I wanted to put stock wheels on it as I can't stand the period correct "slot mags". Don't get me wrong, if I was restoring zebra three I'd be totally ok with them but I much prefer stock steelies with hubcaps. Well, Pat had a set and told me if I found them I could have them. How. Cool. Is. That?!! I told him that I would give him the slot mags for them. Pat also has quite the collection of cool old cars; Fiats, Lancias and such so even though I didn't have anything to work on I was still kept busy with all the sights.

Later in the day the guys and gals provided a BBQ lunch. The FIAT America gang are a great bunch of people, super friendly, approachable and give advice freely on how to fix/enjoy your FIAT. If you live in the Bay Area I highly recommend joining the club.