Fiat 124 Sport Spider

The Fiat 124 Sport Spider is a convertible sports car marketed by Fiat for model years 1966 to 1982 and by Pininfarina for 1982 to 1985. It was designed by and manufactured at the Italian carrozzeria Pininfarina, a monocoque, front-engined, rear-drive car that debuted at the November 1966 Turin Auto Show with styling by Tom Tjaarda. Fiat later sold it as the Spider 2000 from 1979 to 1982, and after Fiat retired it Pininfarina kept building it under its own name for three more years, as the Spider Azzurra for North America and the Spidereuropa for Europe. It shares much of its running gear with the 124 Sport Coupe and the 124 sedan, on a shorter platform and wheelbase, and it was built in series internally designated AS, BS, BS1, CS and CSA. The early torque tube was replaced by a trailing-arm rear axle in 1969, and its four-cylinder double overhead cam engine began at 1438 cc in 1966. A successor was presented in 2015.