Afro-Italian oddity

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Tue 9 Apr 2002 15:14
Afro-Italian oddity - Richard Hall
It's not often that I see a vehicle I have never heard of before, but at the local petrol station today I spotted a Fiat 128 pickup truck. I got talking to the owner, who told me it was made in South Africa in 1978. Pretty little truck, looked as though it was based on the old 128 Coupe, with a neat drop down tailgate and glassfibre top, also Cromodora style alloy wheels and a lovely raspy exhaust note, just like Fiats used to be before they became boring. The owner had driven it up from South Africa, and was preparing to drive it back again.

Anyone know any more about these? I'm pretty sure they were never sold in the UK.
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Tue 9 Apr 2002 15:19
Re: Afro-Italian oddity - Mark (Brazil)
They were sold here. At least, there are quite a few of them about, so I assume they were.
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Tue 9 Apr 2002 21:38
Re: Afro-Italian oddity - ian (cape town)
Lots of them about, until Fiat pulled out. (They now make UNO's here, under license).
Ford also made a 1 ton pickup based on the cortina, which was exported to the UK in the late 70s/early 80s)
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Wed 10 Apr 2002 14:39
Re: Afro-Italian oddity - Kevin

Many of 'em fitted with the 2.5L V-6 IIRC.

Kevin...
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