Thread: 600 hot rod

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Hi.

I`m a 40 years old fan of hotrods and veteran cars and i live in Norway. My dream has for many years been that i one day would have a veteran car or a hotrod.
About 1,5 year ago my dream came through when i bought a `61 model veteran car.
It was in a terrible shape and i think everyone else would have sent it to a junkyard. Anyways, i started to repair this old car and it became obvious that it could never be restored to original state again.

My friend and i had a little "brainstorming" and decided to make something fun of this unusual car, a hotrod!

My car is not a usual car to build a hotrod on but that didn`t stop us.
You now might be wondering what kind of car this is. It is a Jagst 770, or better known as a Fiat 600.

On this car we have frenched both head and tail lights + the antenna, replaced the original tail lights with ford lamps from a `38, and widened the rear wings about 3 cm.(1,1/4 inch) on both sides. Since we didn`t have special tools to do this job we used what we had: angle grinder, hammers, blow torch, and welder. We split the rear wings and moved them out, fixed them in place and filled the gap. Boy, what a job to get the shape right.... A lot of detail work has been done also. It`s not finished yet, but i hope to be for the spring of 2010.

Well... check this link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4LoTgJ23E Hope you enjoy it.

(P.S. For those who wonder why the owner in the video is called Arrabiato, this is my nickname in my local fiat club. D.S.)

Welcome! You picked quite an ambitious project, and it's looking great.

Welcome to CHR! That's some very nice sheet metal work, along with some interesting mods on the body! Going to be a kewl little car, keep us updated as the build progresses!

Very nice work! Man, that thing is little! What kind of drivetrain are you going with?

trade for a pinto ?

Originally Posted by falconvan

Very nice work! Man, that thing is little! What kind of drivetrain are you going with?

I`m going to put the stock engine in for the first season. It`s 770 ccm with the astonishing 24 hp .
The engine sits in the back.
Of course i will change this one with something a little more powerful.
Have been thinking of the Fiat Uno turbo engine because it fits in with very little modification and delivers about 120 hp.
This should be quite enough since the car only weighs just about 650 kg.

Originally Posted by HOSS429

trade for a pinto ?

He he... No thanks.... Done too much work on this one to not drive it myself when finished.