Hey Renze,about Fiat sheetmetal....

[Woodbeef]

Something crossed my mind today (O.K. very briefly I do admit). We all know about the cabs on the 600 MF,and their rusting problems. So how do you explain the longevity of Fiat,and Landini sheetmetal?

[Fred]

Mornin Woodbeef

I'd say Fiat sheet metal lasts about the same as 600 series cabs. Sames were about the same:) I've seen many rotted Sames, worst was an '83 Taurus 60, by 1990 the bonnet, wings and whole cab structure was holed and it didn't live in sh*t. Fiats from the 70's and '80's similar ( won't say same - too confusing!) One dealer had a 1380 demonstrator with disappearing sun roof and paint lifting off the wheel rims. Great advert for the marque- they didn't sell many. We tried that tractor, went well but was not going to buy another Iti in a hurry, rust or not. Only got to try the Fiat cause the Hercules was in hospital again. But thats another story, he didn't get old enough to have a rust problem anyway;) Never seen an old Landini, maybe they just die young.

[kenjar]

Hi guys,

Say isn't terra cota Italian for rust colored? ;D Just kidding.

It does seem to be more of a problem in Europe than here in the states. Recently looked at a '83 Fiat 880-5 and a '92 F110. No rust problems there. Think they do a better job of painting for the models coming our way?

Only seen one Landini (a Long R9500) here, didn't notice any problems with rust, but that has been awhile ago.

[European A]

Recently I visited my dad´s small village in the mountains. One of the tractors is a Fiat 766 E, one of the first models painted in terracotta I think, so I guess that tractor is about 15 years old at least. No rust at all.

The village is placed in the north of Spain at 1000 m over the sea level. The weather is very cold, with a lot of snow in Autumn and Winter. In summer the temperature goes from 25/30° C with the daylight and 10/5°C by night. This Fiat sleeps on the street.

;D

[eppie]

Hi Woodbeef,

I was out of connection some days, my internet provider had some bugs.

I have also moved my domain name to anoher provider, so i can handle the forum scrips on my own server (Hallelujah, no more pop-up ads !!)

Well, you hear what they say about the other italians.

Personally, all same's which have been around in my area have fuzzy paint or rust holes. It's just a bad paint, it cant stand the sun, i think.

Hey Kenjar, werent those Long tractors repainted ?? ;D ;D

The brown Fiats got a better pain, i hink, because since the color change, there seem to be less rust problems.

[kenjar]

Renze,

I don't know if Long repainted the tractors or not. I know Long went from red colors to blue at about the same time.