[dennisw]

PING

[Red Badger]

I had a 75 Fiat X1/9......I spent more time UNDER it than I did IN it!........

[nothingnew]

FIAT...Fix It Again Tony

FMCDH(BITS)

[AppyPappy]

“so it cannot work”

But has since 1971.

[bert]

Had he not untied the US$ from the $35 rate, the gold supply would have been sold out within days. The price of gold at the time in London was $40-43. Taking $35 to the gold window and buying and then selling in London for $40 was a piece of cake.

Nixon had no choice but to sever the relationship. Congress lacked the guts to engage in a debate and reset the rate as they had many times before. The decision was made that gold was irrelevant to the modern economies

[Paladin2]

Should have at least bought one of these to drive around while it worked:

[cicero2k]

One of the few break into a laugh headlines on FR.

I really wanted the Spyder in the 1970s but stayed away due to the reliability rep.

Ended up with a Mercury Capri converible years later when they had the Mazda driveline. Eight years of fun driving in California for $5K.

[Robert357]

That's odd, I had a Fiat 124 4-door sedan and then later a Fiat 124 Spider convertible. The engines were entirely different. Both were quite reliable, but required maintenance, that I did mostly myself. The 4-door was a pleasure to work on.

In fact the Fiat 124 4-door tooling was sold to Russia and with some slight suspension modifications (rough Russian roads) became the Soviet Lada.

The Fiat dollar on the other hand has been unreliable.

[Jabba the Nutt]

The House GOP is going to fund ObamaCare. There are few in Washington, who are determined to turn the situation around.

This was the last straw. We will not escape without a financial collapse.

My question is how to prepare for this situation: financially and practically. What are sources of advice?

[ADemocratNoMore]

A long time ago I had an 850 Spider. The fellow who owned it originally was in the service, bought it in England, had it shipped over and changed it to left hand steering.

You didn't get into it, you wore it like an exoskeleton - big guy little car. With it's 850cc engine (there are motorcycles with engines three times the size) it would still do 90, which seemed a lot faster when you were sitting 12 inches off the ground. Twas' a real fun car !