A group of friends and I got the periodic table of the elements notation for “Lead” tattooed on our right feet about a decade ago when we first started racing in LeMons. Seemed a good idea at the time and still love it.

Our Abarth has been great. It’s a 2012 and just about to turn 50 k miles. It’s held up really well and hasn’t had any big problems. Wouldn’t hesitate to buy one again.

I don’t have a recent pic of my daily driver 500 Abarth, but it’s the workhorse allowing the Big Healey, Miata R, and AW11 MR2 to be small and uncomfortable. I really must get an age appropriate car sometime...

I had a Yugo and loved it. It was the best Fiat 128 you could buy made from better steel. Super fun car to drive. Sure, it was cheap with a cheap interior, what else would you expect?

Not quite early 80s, but I still have the AW11 MR2acquired in my senior year of college. I’ve been looking at W126 Benzes, so that will likely join the fleet soon.

That is a fantastic photo.

How cool is it that the kid in the book found an Abarth exhaust for that Ghia? This book needs to be translated post haste as I have niece being born in a month.

I’ve fallen into the rabbithole! What a great trip. I now want a SYM Symba.

Now that’s the lede to what sounds like an interesting story...

I need to make permanent a field expedient repair I did on the Healey, swap out a burnt out headlight on the 500 Abarth, and clean and shin-etsu the weatherstripping on the MR2.

I go grocery shopping in this and commute in it when I’m not carpooling or riding my bike. People these days are too soft. Yes, it does get driven in the rain, with the tonneau cover in place over the passenger seat.

I’m 2 years away from turning 50 and have been racing for 30 years (my god, where did the time go?). While I have been thinking an appropriate mid-life crisis vehicle for me would be a Cadillac (no, a cushy land barge, not a V - I have other cars for going fast).

If they made a mid engine Corvette, I might be tempted.…

Geez, I always forget about that car. It really is an attractive package, must go try one.

A Tesla van makes a ton of sense. I’d lust after a Camper Van Tesla like I lust after a Sprinter Camper Van.

Great article! I’ve always wanted to go and this piece gives me yet fewer reasons not to.

I had ‘94 Saab 9000 Aero and can fully understand this ad. It was a great car and I loved it.

It’s a commuter. Stays perfectly cool in summer traffic. You don’t, you sweat like a pig if the car isn’t moving.

Aww man, I’m grey. :-(
Here’s another pic to show how small a big Healey is. That’s our 500 Abarth looming behind.

You all really need to get an early Austin Healey 3000. Not the tarted up Mark 3, that car isn’t as fun. This is my Mark 1. No windows, super low, super fun. This car rides awful, has no windows, may as well have no top, high centers on speed bumps, and I absolutely love it.

Like the esteemed Mr. Smith, I too was an…

Having owned 2 Miatas and 2 Fiat 124 Spiders, I think it is inevitable that a Fiata will be mine. I love my 500 Abarth.