The golden age of autos
05/09/07 Filed in: Cars
This is a prime example of a Fiat back in the days when they were famous as high-speed rust buckets.
0-60 months before the side panels perforated, and total rot-riddled unroadworthiness within 10 years.
To their credit, as this picture shows, Fiat were one of the first to popularize the convertible model. This was a pragmatic approach to motoring. Firstly, it played straight into the flashy Italian desire to pose, and second, for Fiat it meant there were less body parts to rust.
Started to become special, is a new term I coined after failing to sell it these past 11 years using the more correct term, "a pile of rusty old scrap". I could re-assemble it from the spares I have lying around the yard, but it will be more like a Mini with an oversize chassis than a classic Bentley.
Once I repainted a works van prior to starting a new job on a very select country home. I never appreciated how much work it took to prepare the bodywork, and had no idea that I would run out of paint midway through Sunday afternoon, back in the day when shops actually closed on Sundays.
I was so embarrassed when I pulled into the drive on Monday morning and the owner was looking out his bedroom window down at the van. All the bodywork was brand spanky new Arctic White, apart from the roof which resembled Mold Green.
Had any disastrous do-it-yourself car repair stories? Let us know and I will publish them.
0-60 months before the side panels perforated, and total rot-riddled unroadworthiness within 10 years.
To their credit, as this picture shows, Fiat were one of the first to popularize the convertible model. This was a pragmatic approach to motoring. Firstly, it played straight into the flashy Italian desire to pose, and second, for Fiat it meant there were less body parts to rust.
Bentley, emphasis on the "bent"?
Started to become special, is a new term I coined after failing to sell it these past 11 years using the more correct term, "a pile of rusty old scrap". I could re-assemble it from the spares I have lying around the yard, but it will be more like a Mini with an oversize chassis than a classic Bentley.
Ed's bad spray day
Once I repainted a works van prior to starting a new job on a very select country home. I never appreciated how much work it took to prepare the bodywork, and had no idea that I would run out of paint midway through Sunday afternoon, back in the day when shops actually closed on Sundays.
I was so embarrassed when I pulled into the drive on Monday morning and the owner was looking out his bedroom window down at the van. All the bodywork was brand spanky new Arctic White, apart from the roof which resembled Mold Green.
Had any disastrous do-it-yourself car repair stories? Let us know and I will publish them.
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