Pocket Rocket* Part-ex.

[Inspector Morose]

They're okay on a journey on your own. Mine used to regularly go from Birmingham to Redruth to see my mate and his 2ft gauge railway.

 

One of mine was turned into the company van to save using a bus. Quite a useful little thing - rear seats taken out, lined out at the back and rear windows blanked off - turned it into a useful parts getter and crew change machine until one driver on a crew change forgot where he parked it and it was taken away and crushed by Birmingham council after four days sitting on double yellows.

[KruJoe]

[M'coli]

Top bombing!  give us a shout if you're coming past W'by with it.

[320touring]

YaY!

 

*buys XUD*

[KruJoe]

Pretty chuffed to win it at that price to be honest. As is Mrs_KJ.

Fresh ticket on it too!

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-FIAT-SEICENTO-SPORTING-YELLOW-/181788235120?euid=a16845dfc5ae4813ac1e9734504aba95&cp=1&nma=true&si=UgoBFB98MqGTThoOkwiKebxbNQ4%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

ARSE planning underway.

[vulgalour]

Chompy rates these as super fun, I can see Mrs KJ being very pleased with them.  Because it's a Fiat I don't fit in them (see also Lancia and Alfa Romeo) which really disappoints me.

[nigel bickle]

Mrs B has the cinque. Loves it, although for some reason, prefers the Coop 20vt, or her S2000.

 

Can't understand why?

 

Enjoy. They do seem to be cheap fun

[DVee8]

That looks a little honey.Hope it turns out as good as the photos.

[Pillock]

I've just seen a smart 51 plate car, and a £340 winning bid and my mind can't comprehend. I'm getting old.

[Cavcraft]

You're a winner, Joe.

[Parky]

Nice! They just look so right in Yellow don't they?

 

I want one now, and it will fit in my garage too!

[KruJoe]

[KruJoe]

[KruJoe]

We get to some proper classy gaffs, us.

 

 

Check out that Vento's boot release mech

[explosive-cabbage]

 

This type of scene perfectly describes the area the car was bought from....

[KruJoe]

Home and dry*

All in all, a successful collection. Cost: Half a tank of WVO, one severed ratchet strap, and £2.50 for a Waziristani hand wash.

 

 

Best thing about that enterprise was the hand-warming brazier burning inside their lashed-up shelter!

 

This thing is an absolute flipping hoot on our private* back lanes, I'm telling you.

 

It is now fully hoon tested, and comes with the Joe_Cleland stamp of approval.

[KruJoe]

Time to move this on.

It has developed an increasingly persistent but intermittent non-starting habit.
It did it a few months back, and an ebay crank sensor seemed to fix it. It may be the same problem now, but it's giving a different fault code this time, one for a key-code immobiliser problem. But the key-code goes out as normal, so I'm not sure.

 

Also, I now suspect HGF too. (Oil cap mayo, coolant vanishing, and creaminess in the sump oil.) I just CBA to spend any more time on it, and due to its bad habits, Mrs_KJ has fallen out of love, so it's days here are numbered.

It still drives brill when it decides to start. Bloody thing.

 

You still reading this? 

 

OK, it's tested 'til June:

 

 

It'll likely want some tyres to win another test.

 

Any plus points?

 

Recently overhauled back brakes. 

 

It's yellow.

 

Erm... that's all I've got.


How much? You decide.
 
99p start Autoshite members' AUCTION!
 
(GBP (Pounds and pence Sterling) bids only, no licked Twixes, bid increments 10 pence or more, that's up to you. Auction ends 24 hours after the last bid. Other T&C's may apply if I haven't thought of them yet.)
 
Location:


 
Central, so close to everyone on mainland UK.
 
Collection: most days/times are possible, evenings are good. Relaxed timescale, storage is not a problem here. I can bring you to it from Skipton bus or rail station.
 
Delivery: May be possible, we can talk. May involve A-frame risk and further T&C's.

[brownnova]

£1.50

 

Get the ball rolling!!

[KruJoe]

Aye. I did have a look myself this week, with the thought of picking up an identical one (with differing issues), and keep this for bits. I found a good runner for £200 needing an alternator down int' West Riding, but the Mrs told me to FRO with that idea, as she saw it as an excuse to have another carcass littering the place. Bugger. Rumbled. (Plus, it's gonna be a while 'til she trusts a Fiat again.)

[omegod]

IIRC fiat dealer guys used to change the gaskets on these round the back of their workshops in their lunch hour as a bit of a foreigner, must be a pretty easy job 

[KruJoe]

"Taxed 'til you're home and MID positive for ANPR-happy re-homing."

[sporty-shite]

£12.50, just to get the shill bus moving.

[brownnova]

Because I'd hate to see this grind to a halt just yet.... £14.90

[KruJoe]

Thanks folks!

 

It looks pretty* much the same as it did before, except it hasn't been washed for a couple weeks:

 

 

[Cavcraft]

How much would you want for delivery to Chester, please?

[KruJoe]

Forty quid to you, Billy.

[Cavcraft]

Ok, I'll bid £35 for the car then, please! 

 

 

(obvs. delivery extra if I'm the lucky* winner)

[KruJoe]

Cool, that £75 (just) beats the bid from CTB in Preston if I drag it to them there.

 

Is it likely someone will make a go of this thing? If so, I potentially have some goodies to throw into the deal...

[explosive-cabbage]

£75 is a good start.

 

Unfortunately, I'm out:- This thing cannot be driven whilst wearing size 10 wellies. Therefore it cannot be driven by me.

 

And I'm too busy winning life with a BX.

[KruJoe]

cannot be driven whilst wearing size 10 wellies

 

Says the man who drives a 106 daily in wellies... That sort of talk is internet claptrap! This is no worse than a 106 in that department, I'm fine driving both in me boots!