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Grande Punto My Grande Sporting 'Francesca'

Introduction

Hi all,
Fairly new to this forum malarkey but been looking through threads on here for a while before finally getting my 56 plate Grande 1.4 16v Sporting with skydome roof about 3 weeks ago! Won her on an eBay auction for £2350 with 1 owner from new FSH and 60,000 on the clock (quite a bargain I think?!). Picked her up from London so got a good drive back up to Yorkshire to get to know Francesca (yes... I called her that :) ) and I have to say I'm already in love!









Quite an upgrade from my first car a 1.0L Polo 6n (absolutely great car btw, built like a tank :D ):



Already fitted some Team Heko wind deflectors:



And swapped to the red badge at the front (rest to follow):



Got some plans for the near future:

Abarth lights all round
Smoked side repeaters
Refurbing the alloys (pretty bad curbing) and possibly resprayed white
Eibach Sportlines
Tinted rear windows
Convert to red badges all round
White mirror caps if I go for the white alloys

...plus whatever else the future holds but for now thanks for looking and let me know what you think!
Just like to say saw this on friday in Hud parked up near Lidl. Fantastic. Looks even better in the flesh and super shiny! Specially like the moustache addition ;) Yes mine was that one in front, don't like parking under those trees though, way too many birds.

Be adding my own thread in a day or two :)
 
Just like to say saw this on friday in Hud parked up near Lidl. Fantastic. Looks even better in the flesh and super shiny! Specially like the moustache addition ;) Yes mine was that one in front, don't like parking under those trees though, way too many birds.

Be adding my own thread in a day or two :)

Ahh yeah I was down at topspot that day, thanks for noticing! Haha I remember parking next to another grande actually :) looked nice from what I remember. Only park there cause its about the only free parking in hudds!
MrMurray20 thanks! yeah I'm really happy with the white, but I managed to curb my left front the other day :cry::cry::cry:
 
**SAD NEWS**

Just thought I'd let you all know that I've had to put my car up for sale! :(

I'm absolutely gutted as I love this car to bits but I simply can't afford to keep her through uni.

I will be putting a proper classified up in the coming days but in the mean time if anyone's interested please get in touch. I will also be at MITCAR tomorrow so you can come and have a closer look :)

Any help in selling would be greatly appreciated, and I'd feel happy letting her go to someone off the forum as I know she'd continue to receive the care and affection she deserves (I'm tearing up here)

I am also on the look out for a (very) cheap mk2/mk2b so I won't be leaving you guys completely (y)

So yeah, very sad to be seeing Francesca go but needs must and all :(
 
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