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◊ 2014-09-01 18:38 |
Fiat 2300S coupe, do they come in non S versions? -- Last edit: 2014-09-01 18:42:59 |
◊ 2014-09-01 19:38 |
Yes both were available 105HP and 136HP (S-Version). 1961 - 1968 |
◊ 2021-12-06 20:46 |
1965+ lower door handle position. Unclear if it has the 65+ lower trim strip - was this fitted on the non-S version (114BC, sometimes listed as 2300 N Coupé)?? We don't have any 2300 N or 114BC listed to compare, and google searching pictures only seems to find 2300 S-captioned examples. So was 2300 N rarer than its faster sibling?? Is there any info anywhere suggesting the 2300 N had slightly less jewellery before or after 1965?? |
◊ 2021-12-06 21:00 |
If it can help, Italian wikipedia (https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_1800) says that regular, non-S 2300 Coupé was only produced in the 1961-63 period (according to the table, even if the article says "the following year - referred to 1963 - only the 2300 S Coupé was left", so maybe 1964?), so didn't get the 1965 update, and was less successful. |
◊ 2021-12-06 21:27 |
World Cars 1963 lists both Coupes, and 1967 edition only shows 2300 S, so that makes sense. However Glass's has a different story for UK with plain 2300 and 2300 S coupes arriving here Oct 62, both listed as 114BS. Then in July 63 we got the slight revisions launched in Italy in Jan 63 (only small details - bigger boot, red light on trailing edge of doors, alternator instead of dynamo, greasing points deleted) with plain 2300 becoming 2300 N [114BC], alongside continuing 2300 S [114BS]. Both models then continued here through a couple more trivial updates and the 1965 facelift until dropped in Jan 68, with quoted chassis numbers of 206686 (2300 N) and 207650 (2300 S). All of which is slightly ironic, as they were very expensive here and only sold penny numbers, but Fiat UK were supplying Glass's with all this data, including separate interim chassis numbers for each version in every intervening year. |
◊ 2021-12-06 21:41 |
Interesting, maybe they continued building the standard/N version for export market for a few years more? |