Re: Late 101 Spider question

[Simon Favre <favres@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Watry wrote:

>I looked at a 62 Giulietta Spider normal for sale yesterday, and two
>things seem odd.  First, it has the largest size taillights, which I
>thought came only on Giulia Spiders.  Is this another transition thing,
>as with the change from 750 to 101 Spiders?  Also, the car has a stock
>1300 101 motor, but the water pump has a steel pulley with a bolted-on
>plastic fan.  Is that normal?  I thought all 101 1300s had the
>four-blade cast aluminum fan and pulley.  It definitely had a
>101-numbered head, and the block has the oil pressure fitting low on the
>exhaust side of the block.  So I don't think it's a later 105 1300
>block.

My 62 is a 10103 and has the large tail lights.  The water pumps are the
same for the 101 1300 and 1600.  There's no reason not to use the
plastic fan of the later cars.  I'm not sure if the 101 1300s came with
the cast pully and fan.  Was that a 750 thing?

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