The sad story of my car
I know I'm not special here because I have a Fiat but this car has a pretty good story and I think that sharing with you guys it's kinda fun and will make you think on your car more when you are about to get rid of it
So when I was on my 20 (now on my 23) I bought from my teacher her Fiat Punto because I needed a car to walk around the city and my Volvo was not the best option because it was huge and spend a lot of diesel.
She was going to throw the car to the junkyard and I said no and bought the car mainly because it was a 1.3 mtj (for those who know this engine, you know that it doesn't spend nothing on diesel and it's pretty reliable when we'll maintained). So, I bought it for 300€ and a full tank.
I drove it to my house smiling because the car was in very good condition (engine) but the outside was awful.
As I do in all of my cars, I searched the history of the car and discovered that this little Fiat was the official workshop car from Fiat in my homeland in Portugal and found all the maintenance from Fiat in the documents.
I started to like more and more of this little car, the way that was surprisingly fast and agile but he had a problem. From walking too much on city (if you live in Europe you know that inside city, the roads are trash and full of holes) the car was terrible on suspension and needed a lot of work and the steering column was basically dead and he started to fail a lot making the steering hard. All of his problems didn't justify the price of the car and when that happens normally the car is going to the junkyard.
One night I was on my workshop and a friend of mine said to me that he would give me is Renault Twingo on Change of the Punto. Well it was a good deal because the Twingo was pretty good but I looked at the Punto and said no. From that point I putted in my head that I was going to fix that car because, looking at the car I started to think... This car survived hell to be here, was going to trash and now it's here just to go to trash again... A car that has a pretty good past and a hell of a story.
So I started the rebuild last week.
And the point here it's to bring the car back to his old (not so old) glory and rebuild it and make a big trip to Italy
It's a big plan but I know I can do it.
I just need your help in something. I want it to be full extras at least the ones that I can find so if you guys could send me some catalog or something for me to guide in, that would be very helpful
Thank you all for reading and sorry for my bad English. As a good Portuguese, my English it's trash hehe ❤️