Number 73 - dated 09.01.2012 - © Axel Gerstl

Rom - Istanbul - Rom - with a Fiat 500!

Dear Customers, dear Fiat 500 friends, Fiat 126 friends and Fiat 600 friends,

today we cover the journey of Gianluca Fiorentini in his Fiat 500 L from Rome to Istanbul.

Gianluca Fiorentini, an Italian editor and keen Fiat 500 owner, accompanied the SaharaTour of the Fiat 500 Club Italy already in 2010 as an official reporter of the famous Italian Oldtimer magazine AUTO D’EPOCA. He seemed to be the right man for us to support at his adventure.

Fiorentini started at 30th/31th of July 2011 and drew attention to the partly forgotten
and partly unsolved problems of the children and orphans after the breakup of Yugoslavia with his journey again.

We very glad about supporting this purposes and were eagerly waiting for Gianluca's reports and photos.

Follow Gianluca Fiorentini at this and at the next newsletter at his journey from Rome through Ex-Yugoslavia, passing through historic sites, until the Bosporus and to Istanbul and then through Greece and back to Rome again.

Moreover we present you today another photo from our Fiat 500/600 "Black-and-White Picture Gallery" and of course many interesting offers and news around the Fiat 500, the Fiat 126 and the Fiat 600.

Have fun with reading!

Your Axel Gerstl Team

 

> Rom - Istanbul - Journey

30./ 31. August 2011, the journey begins...

     

Gianluca Fiorentini starts his journey in Rome. The first route are some few "test kilometers" through the historic center of Rome. On the right hand side, you can see a picture of his Fiat 500 in front of the colosseum.

The next country of the journey ist Slovenia. Beech forests, grassy dunes and resting cows are gracing the countryside. The emerald green river Krka, villages and country houses, hardly any traffic...

The Fiat 500 easily floats over the asphalt, driven by an engine, that is overflowing with strength and is cheerfully singing the first thousand kilometers..

     


Vukovar, Croatia is the next stop. In Slavonia County the traces of the war are still visible. Amazement, disbelief and fright are catching Fiorentini when he is driving through the streets of Vukovar. On the way to Ilok the asphalt shows up in very different shades of grey, the street is crossing cultivated fields. The air, swirling in his small Fiat 500, has the moist taste of the fresh rain together with the flavor of the freshly mowed grass. It is mixing with the aroma of recently burning and now wet bushes in the end.

     

Serbia is the next aim of his journey. Novi Pazar, a city with a crazy mix of all ethnic groups, cultures and religions. Flavor of roasted coffee, moneychangers and veiled women everywhere... Passing the first minaret and then the first moaning of the small engine. Like honey for the bees, the Fiat 500 is arousing attention of the people of every traversed country, magnetizing glances, inspiring photos, excited questions and conversations...

                             

In Bulgaria Gianluca is finally reaching the greatest monastery of the country, that is sitting in a forested valley, built up on the massif of Rila. It is a beautiful feeling to have still the aim of the journey kept in sight, already smelling the flavor of the east... and Europe ends now, although the journey only just had begun.

... according to texts of Gianluca Fiorentini (freely translated by employees of company of Axel Gerstl)

In the next newsletter you can read how the journey continues. Gianluca Fiorentini's stay at Turkey, especially in Istanbul, and his return through Greece to Rome.

 


 

 

 

> 'Black-and-White Picture Gallery'

We don't want to hold back this beautiful picture from our 'Black-and-White Picture Gallery':

This photo shows a family with their Fiat 600 on the journey from the Lüneburger Heide to Munich at the 13th May of 1956.

> New items in our online shop

Sport air filter for Weber 40 DHLA for Fiat 500, 126

  • Sport air filter Weber 40 DHLA for Fiat 500, 126
  • item no.: 23476
    Price: only EUR 114,90

Door repair panel for Fiat 126

  • Door repair panel, left side for Fiat 126
  • item no.: C12021/2 
    Price: only EUR 55,-

> Special offers

Rear window weathership for Fiat 600TT/770

  • Rear window weathership
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    Price: instead of total EUR 34,50, only EUR 25,- (valid to 17.01.2012)

Set of steering knuckles for Fiat Fiat 600 D/E / Seat 770

  • Set of steering knuckles w. 1 grease nipple 
  • item no.: A04001/B
    Price: instead of total EUR 38,- only EUR 119,- (valid to 17.01.2012)


Set of knee protection trim strips Fiat 500 F/L/R/F-Giardiniera

  • Set of knee protection trim strips for dashboard 
  • item no.:: 13100
    Price: instead of total EUR 60,- only EUR 51,50 (valid to 17.01.2012)

Steering gear/pinion steering for Fiat 126 ab '87

  • Steering geer/pinion steering (left hand drive), new 
  • item no.: C05014
    Price: instead of total EUR 135,- only EUR 110,- (valid to 17.01.2012)

Rebuilt alternator

  • Rebuilt alternator 
  • item no.: 15001
    Price: instead of total EUR 145,- only EUR 127,50 (valid to 17.01.2012)

Bumper, rear for Bianchina Panoramica

  • Bumper, rear 
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    Price: instead of total EUR 94,- only EUR 66,- (valid to 17.01.2012)

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