The updated Fiat Gasser featured in our last newsletter and exhibited at the SEMA show in November was such a big hit that it was also exhibited at the FABTECH show two weeks later. The remodeled 1959 Fiat 500, owned by Bob Hershey of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and rebuilt by Legacy Innovations of York, Pennsylvania, was featured on the Car Domain website and blog, the New York Times automotive blog, and was named one of the SEMA Top 10 by Car and Driver.

In case you missed the story in the last issue, the 1959 Fiat has been updated with a 4130 Chrome Moly tube chassis, tilt body, custom-built billet struts, four-speed Lenco transmission, 830 HP Reher Morrison 427ci small block Chevy engine, Hogan manifold, custom stainless steel headers and exhaust, 15x12 street lites, a custom-built 9-inch rear and a snazzy yellow paint job.

The welding and cutting on this job was done exclusively with ESAB welding and cutting products. The cutting was done with a PowerCut 650 plasma cutter, the TIG welding, which is the bulk of the work, was done with the new CaddyTig 2200i AC/DC and Heliarc 161, and the small amount of MIG welding on sheet metal was done with the Migmaster 203. Legacy Innovations also uses ESAB filler metals exclusively. This project used Spoolarc 83 ER80S-D2, Spoolarc 65 ER70S-2, Arcaloy 312, Arcaloy 308, All State Silicon Bronze TIG, Spoolarc Easy Grind MIG wire, AlcoTec 4043 TIG rod, and AlcoTec 5356 TIG rod and MIG wire.

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