Hi my name is Dan and I though I would show you my little car I sold my 1971 bug that I rebuilt earlier this year and wanted another little project that I could use all year round my wife had bought the fiat for £410 but was finding no power steering was causing her tennis elbow to get worse so I bought her a car and took on the fiat myself.
My old beetle
And the cinquecento
In this picture it was already lowered by 40mm as it looked ridiculously high before, I have replaced the rad and heater matrix cause it they were both leaking from this
To this
The I removed the rear bumper cleaned the back end found out it had a rear end shunt at some point
so got the big mallet out and knocked it out a bit
Then a little bit of welding and rust treatment and I sealed the back end with dinitrol
The bumpers were then painted
I have done a full service new thermostat as it was leaking, changed gearbox oil, replaced back box of exhaust, rear brake pads and sorted the seized hand brake levers then got it insured
Here it is when I got it insured and on the road
It has a few other changes namely wheels which I will add pictures of soon (it dinner time) it has sucked up a fare amount of money so far but that's how it goes
My old beetle
And the cinquecento
In this picture it was already lowered by 40mm as it looked ridiculously high before, I have replaced the rad and heater matrix cause it they were both leaking from this
To this
The I removed the rear bumper cleaned the back end found out it had a rear end shunt at some point
so got the big mallet out and knocked it out a bit
Then a little bit of welding and rust treatment and I sealed the back end with dinitrol
The bumpers were then painted
I have done a full service new thermostat as it was leaking, changed gearbox oil, replaced back box of exhaust, rear brake pads and sorted the seized hand brake levers then got it insured
Here it is when I got it insured and on the road
It has a few other changes namely wheels which I will add pictures of soon (it dinner time) it has sucked up a fare amount of money so far but that's how it goes