Fiat 500, 600 1955 TO 1992: The Essential Buyer's Guide - Softcover

Bobbitt, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845841476 ISBN 13: 9781845841478

Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

The essential guide to purchasing a Fiat 500 or 600, it allows both the novice and accustomed Fiat enthusiast to appraise a potential purchase with professional confidence, identifying what to look for in order to acquire the right car at the right price. With Malcolm Bobbitt’s concise and easy to follow guide which is packed with sound advice and backed up by specially selected illustrations, the route through checking a car’s provenance is made all the easier. Use of the guide will determine within minutes of viewing a car whether more time should be spent evaluating the vehicle. Packed with the right information, this is your passport to joining the Fiat community and, thus, a unique motoring experience. Packed with 100 new detail pictures and with a unique points system to score a potential purchase, this book is a must for any potential small Fiat owner.

About this title

About the Author

Malcolm Bobbitt has been fascinated by the motor car since buying an Austin 7 before he was old enough to drive! After a career in the electricity industry, Malcolm is now a writer who chooses mainly to write about motoring history. Malcolm lives in England's beautiful Lake District. He is a prolific and diverse author, with numerous  automotive books published by Veloce, including Citroen DS, Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow & Bentley T,Karmann Ghia coupe and cabriolet, as well as some Essential Buyer’s Guides and books about British Lorries and Taxis!

Review

Classic Cars, June 2008
UK magazine
Circulation: 49,000

Veloce's range of Essential Buyer's Guides keeps on expanding, with these two titles by Malcolm Bobbitt taking on two extremes of the classic market - Rolls-Royce and Fiat. It's a tried and trusted format, covering common faults, model variations and the state of their particular market. Before you even think of buying the car, it's worth investing a in one of these little books. You need to know what you're getting into.

"It is the essential guide to purchasing a baby Fiat, identifying what to look for in order to acquire the right car at the right price." – Fleet Car

Auto Italia, June 2008
UK magazine
 
A beginner's guide to identifying the multitude of Fiat 500 models, the sister 600 and the restoration thereof. It's all pretty straightforward stuff with advice like, "Attempting a basket case might initially be tempting. To see the project through requires much commitment, however." Not to mention tons of cash, which will far exceed the value of the car!

If you are new to the classic car game, then this book would be quite useful. It's not a masterpiece of design and layout, but then it doesn't really need to be.

 Fiat Club Africa, 2008
South Africa

Now here is an interesting book. I have many prospective and existing club members who have an endless set of questions about these little gems; which is the better, a 500 or a 600? Will I like it? What are the differences? How practical? And so forth.

In this handy sized book, Malcolm tries to answer the major questions covering the Fiat 500, 126 and 600 mainstream models through the years and point out the many positives as well as the pitfalls, that a 50-year-old car could have. Both the 500 and 600 have seen a huge upsurge in interest of late both with the revival of Fiat as a company doing exceptional small cars again and of course with the latest fashion icon the New 500, due to come to South Africa this year.

This book will help the reader select the best option for and guide the reader through the tire kicking and buying processes in Malcolm’s concise, easy and often humorous writing style. As a relatively small book, it however is not an encyclopedia on these models and does miss out some of the detail that could leave the deep enthusiast a little frustrated. For everyone else this is a great book, even if you decide that the real McCoy is not for you, and you would rather plump for a New 500 with all the toys, you will not have wasted your money.

Enjoy the read and happy hunting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845841476
• ISBN 13: 9781845841478
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 64