So as you may have seen with some of Simon's posts earlier in the week he took delivery of a Midnight Blue Fiat Punto. Trouble being it wasn't for himself. Yep. I'm back (again)
I was at work in Dundee on Sunday and Simon was visiting for a cuppa and catch up. Whilst looking at ebay, we spied a fairly clean MK1 with a genuine 38k on the clock. It'd been spied earlier on in the year by members of the Mk1 enthusiasts group on facebook. Back in January it was going for about £700. Now it was down to £395....a quick phone call and a cheeky offer later and it was mine. Yay - I'd bought another car blind...only problem being it was in Warrington.
Managed to luck out (again) and got an offer of £200 to bung the car on a loader bound for Dundee. Turns out the delivery driver was from Aberdeen - he'd been down the road doing a delivery and would have been heading home empty. I got my car brought up the road and he covered some of his fuel. Winners all round!
I picked the car up on Thursday and so far I have to say I'm fairly impressed. It drives like a brand new car. While it was under Simon's care he took it to Euan at CP Garage services, a well known Italian specialist. Mechanically the car is spot on - it needs a n/s/r handbrake cable replacing and a couple of tiny patches of welding for its MOT. Other than that, it's in great shape.
Bodywork needs some attention - the roof & boot lid are in a poor state, as is the bonnet and rear door. From a distance the car looks ok and it's hard to believe it turns 20 next month!
So the immediate plan is to get her through an MOT, I've an appointment with a spray shop on Monday to price up bodywork repairs and then its OEM / OEM plus.
She's already had a spare 'car of the year' sticker added, the scabby wheel trims swapped for ELX ones, a standard stereo has been fitted and I've had to replace the drivers mirror as it was failing. Long term I'm thinking a set of GT or Coupe alloys in gunmetal grey....and that's about it!
Did I mention it has super low miles and even has a working Meta alarm...chuffed is an understatement
I was at work in Dundee on Sunday and Simon was visiting for a cuppa and catch up. Whilst looking at ebay, we spied a fairly clean MK1 with a genuine 38k on the clock. It'd been spied earlier on in the year by members of the Mk1 enthusiasts group on facebook. Back in January it was going for about £700. Now it was down to £395....a quick phone call and a cheeky offer later and it was mine. Yay - I'd bought another car blind...only problem being it was in Warrington.
Managed to luck out (again) and got an offer of £200 to bung the car on a loader bound for Dundee. Turns out the delivery driver was from Aberdeen - he'd been down the road doing a delivery and would have been heading home empty. I got my car brought up the road and he covered some of his fuel. Winners all round!
I picked the car up on Thursday and so far I have to say I'm fairly impressed. It drives like a brand new car. While it was under Simon's care he took it to Euan at CP Garage services, a well known Italian specialist. Mechanically the car is spot on - it needs a n/s/r handbrake cable replacing and a couple of tiny patches of welding for its MOT. Other than that, it's in great shape.
Bodywork needs some attention - the roof & boot lid are in a poor state, as is the bonnet and rear door. From a distance the car looks ok and it's hard to believe it turns 20 next month!
So the immediate plan is to get her through an MOT, I've an appointment with a spray shop on Monday to price up bodywork repairs and then its OEM / OEM plus.
She's already had a spare 'car of the year' sticker added, the scabby wheel trims swapped for ELX ones, a standard stereo has been fitted and I've had to replace the drivers mirror as it was failing. Long term I'm thinking a set of GT or Coupe alloys in gunmetal grey....and that's about it!
Did I mention it has super low miles and even has a working Meta alarm...chuffed is an understatement
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