Gasoline
Gasoline SuperDork
4/7/16 4:32 p.m.

NMNA

I looked at this thinking Yea Baby! 201? Challenge killer!!! mobile for the right price!

I like em crunchy, but this is the powered crumbs at the bottom of the cereal box.

All of the body panel attachment locations look like grandmas lace tablecloth. It's one of those that you need to think?; that half the body is going to fall off getting on the trailer and the remaining body is going to blow off trailering it down the road. One minutes to look it over, stayed another minute for kindness, and 10 minutes listening to "how negotiable" the price is.

Said that he had an offer from one guy that wanted to make a barbeque smoker out of it...but he said that this "needs to be back on the road"!? Correctly spelled "Bianchina".

Yes, that is an electric motor where the gas motor goes.

I left feeling so happy! but yet kinda sad.

http://houston.craigslist.org/cto/5507773111.html

Burrito
Burrito Dork
4/7/16 4:40 p.m.

Vespa 400!

Jumper K. Balls
Jumper K. Balls UberDork
4/7/16 5:39 p.m.

Not quite. The Bianchina was Fiat 500 based and the french made Vespa was its own thing. They just look shockingly similar and have almost identical specs.

WOW Really Paul?
WOW Really Paul? MegaDork
4/7/16 5:46 p.m.

In reply to Gasoline:

Hmm, will it fit in a carry on?

paranoid_android74
paranoid_android74 SuperDork
4/7/16 6:07 p.m.

Reminds me of this guy:

Gasoline
Gasoline SuperDork
4/7/16 7:20 p.m.
WOW Really Paul? wrote: In reply to Gasoline: Hmm, will it fit in a carry on?

Humm? Probably.... Its not packing the factory 24 cubic inch motor.

WOW Really Paul?
WOW Really Paul? MegaDork
4/8/16 11:58 a.m.

In reply to Gasoline:

I'm still on the hunt for an affordable original 500 to stuff a bike engine + snail into....something like this would be a cantidate, but from the sounds of it is too far gone.

vwcorvette
vwcorvette GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
4/8/16 4:27 p.m.

Want to build a Bianchina for my wife. Only one locally went to the crusher. More rust then metal. Shame.

VWguyBruce
VWguyBruce Dork
4/9/16 9:39 a.m.

Say you made it safe enough to be road worthy, would it be worth any real money?

markwemple
markwemple SuperDork
4/9/16 10:01 a.m.

Yes. I'd have to do research but all vintage small cars and Fiat 500 cars are on the up.

Jumper K. Balls
Jumper K. Balls UberDork
4/9/16 12:33 p.m.
VWguyBruce wrote: Say you made it safe enough to be road worthy, would it be worth any real money?

In a word, yes

http://www.goodingco.com/vehicle/1961-autobianchi-bianchina-trasformabile/

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