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@DannyP you’re right, of course, but the girlfriend was in 1969 so I had to do some head scratching and googling and found that she had a Fiat 850 Spider in Lime Green       with the rompin, stompin 843cc engine mounted in the rear.  10 Chihuahuas pulling a mini-dogsled would have been faster off the line than that car, but it was designed by Bertone and looked sharp so I guess it was worth it - At least to her.   Fiat’s next Bertone car was the X1/9 (I think both were designed by the same dude from Ferrari) and at least those could get out of their own way.

She never let me drive it (it was her high school graduation gift) and we parted when the ‘69 summer hit and I headed to Cape Cod for the Dune running season, but that’s another (long) story.

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