The Mouse That Roars
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Hi All
I thought it was about time I joined you all with an introduction to our 1973 Fiat 500 L.
We’ve owned a “Fiat 500” since 1987 but that one is not your usual 500! (Some of you may realise which 500 that one is from my user name)
Anyway back to Luigi, purchased off eBay in January 2015, we did very little research and hadn’t viewed any others but off to Minehead with the trailer we went. The car looked very honest, almost all original, it started, once we had been shown the starting lever! ran sort of, drove sort of and stopped, sort of! We were hooked, deal done, money paid, on the trailer and back to Cheshire we went.
As you can see by the date that was 6 years ago and loads of work has been done since which I’d like to share in a belated build blog type story!
For now, here’s some pictures of how he looked soon after our initial purchase!
Finally, a big thank you to all the forums contributors whose trials and tribulations have been an invaluable source of help!
Thanks Ian and Rachel
I thought it was about time I joined you all with an introduction to our 1973 Fiat 500 L.
We’ve owned a “Fiat 500” since 1987 but that one is not your usual 500! (Some of you may realise which 500 that one is from my user name)
Anyway back to Luigi, purchased off eBay in January 2015, we did very little research and hadn’t viewed any others but off to Minehead with the trailer we went. The car looked very honest, almost all original, it started, once we had been shown the starting lever! ran sort of, drove sort of and stopped, sort of! We were hooked, deal done, money paid, on the trailer and back to Cheshire we went.
As you can see by the date that was 6 years ago and loads of work has been done since which I’d like to share in a belated build blog type story!
For now, here’s some pictures of how he looked soon after our initial purchase!
Finally, a big thank you to all the forums contributors whose trials and tribulations have been an invaluable source of help!
Thanks Ian and Rachel
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