my friend called me up and asked me if i could work on his car so i said yea no problem

 

i went to collect it from his house and brought it back to mine to start work

 

it needs 10 plates welding onit at the moment but im sure i will find some more rust along the way as you will see from the pics im getting rid of all the bodykit from it

 

ive started the welding and also some of the body work

 

so far i have removed the smooth boot skin and started to fill on the wiper hole and a few other holes that where in the boot lid

 

changed the bonnet ect

 

this is what the car looked like when i picked it up

 

 

 

and here are a few pics of what it looks like now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

now ive got to finish welding the car and then flat all the paint back and make it all straight and true then spay it in primer ready for its top coat in ice blue

 

 

matt

 

 

 

at the moment its 130bhp from the little 1.4 turbo engine

 

but with a few mods he is hopeing toget around 210bhp from it

 

p.s carnt wait to see that the great funkysi has to say about this car as i am sure he will love it lol ;)

What a horrible car. Didn't realise Puntos rusted like that. I do remember when Unos and Stradas fell to bits within a few weeks of purchase though. lol

 

Looks like it might have been a GT turbo before it was ruined. Shame, these looked quite nice. Looks like your mate is de-chaving it though judging by the bonnet tailgate and rear lights which is a good thing. Those aftermarket great big haemorrhoid lights were dreadful.

 

 

Edited January 18, 200917 yr by FunkySi

that is exactly what it used to look like si in yellow aswell glad u like it :)

yes I would be speechless for a while after seeing that monstrosity also.

that is exactly what it used to look like si in yellow aswell glad u like it :)

 

Did he graft half a boat to it then or was that done by the previous owner?

nope he did that to it im afriad but he is going back to a standard look for it now as he said he is fed it with people laughting at him at the lights hahaha

Why not buy a std one??

:rofl: not suprised with that snowplough on the front! Shame he ruined it in the first place. Quite a rare car those are now.

 

The back (how it used to look) reminds me of this.

 

the standard gt is getting quite rare now as like this one they have rotted and been broken for spares his engine is spot on and with what he is going to spend onit he might aswell keep that one

lol there are similarities there si

I'm surprised by the rust on such a new car?

Did he pay money for that??? So glad your ripping the rediculous panels off! DONT SELL THEM TO SOME POOR SOD!!!! XD

he swapped a 525 for it and then paid 2 grand on paint and body lol

I think i may have a little giggle if i saw that too :rofl: :rofl:

few more pics from work today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm surprised by the rust on such a new car?

 

These are getting on for 10 years old and are Italian, this is a bad combination for rust :rofl:

yea sure is a bad thing i found to more rust spots ar the back now knocked them back and there only small so not all bad :)

These are getting on for 10 years old and are Italian, this is a bad combination for rust :rofl:

 

Correct, add a bit more time and Fiats end up looking like this. lol

 

Correct, add a bit more time and Fiats end up looking like this. lol

 

 

ahh ive mot'd worst bit of t-cut and it will be alright lol

I think it might need more than a t-cut.....maybe a light skim of filler.....

bin it!

so for some reason i carnt find my old thread to add these pics to but....

 

 

hear is a few more pics from todays work think she is coming alone nice i havent worked on it for ages but now he has got me the things i asked him for i am away again wahoooo

 

ive got 20 days left to finish it and get it mot'd ready for the fastshow 2009

 

 

still doing the boot lid but got all the fibreglass off now

 

 

 

 

 

 

and cut out the grill in the bumper for the FMIC that's going there

 

merged it into the original thread ;)

merged it into the original thread ;)

 

thanx very much :):)

Hope it gets rid of those awful headlights. What colour is he going for? Please tell me he's restoring it to its original yellow. If he did a concourse job on it, trust me, more people will look at than if it were to have components of the Star Ship Enterprise grafted onto it.

 

If ever I am at a show, I spend infinately longer looking at all the tidy and well presented original cars than I do with things with garish paint and fibreglass glued all over it.

yea he is getting standard headlights the ones on there are his old ones

 

as for the colour well i dunno weather to tell you what he is doing lol

 

he is having it dont in white all over and then getting it wrapped to look like the italian flag :(:(