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Punto (Mk1) My punto gt3

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Thought it was about time I put some photos on here , I have owned the car for 11 years now , it was my brothers previous to me who purchased it in 2000 . it had 17s on it but I had some original wheels refurbed , trying to get it back to standard .

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some goodies to put on returning it to standard ride height .
Looks like winter is finally here and the gritters have been out so the punto has to go away until next year.
I’ve been using is bit lately to get to a few meets while the weather has been good and even used it for work the other day 😮
While talking to a guy at one of the meets he told me a mate of his who lives local has recently purchased a nice burgundy punto gt , also there’s a broom yellow sporting in town . I’ll look at getting us together for some photos at some point 👍🏻
 
This is my punto gt that I purchased from my brother in 2005 , so 18 years of ownership as of February 23 .she is fully stock car now apart from a stainless exhaust system.
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Thanks blu 👍🏻, I get called silly when I’ve got my head under the car cleaning 🤣.
Think it’s a rare colour I’ve only seen a couple of white GTs in this country, might have been more popular abroad? .I was once followed home by a guy that had been after a white gt for years, he bought a yellow one eventually.
I’m sure the reason it’s still so good is it’s mostly been a second car with minimal use and garaged over the years.
There can’t been many left now more or less in original condition, most have had some restoration on the way .
 
I’m off to a car meet at a local coffee &cars meet on Saturday where one of the cafe owners is into Italian cars in a big way . Hopefully joining me will be a mk 1 sporting and another GT . Three mk 1 punto’s together will be a good photo opportunity 👍🏻
 
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Some picks of the classic car meet at the Hurt arms in Derbyshire .we had three mk 1 punto’s , two gt’s , we had some good interest in the cars from people who had owned them in the past and hadn’t seen any for years, there was a mk 2 hgt there
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that turned out to be one of the original owners of the burgundy gt .
 

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Yeah me neither, it was a good atmosphere, suffering from sun burn today though 🤣, thanks to kerry for organising the group & the celebration cake 🎂 .hopefully we can do it again and get a few more together, maybe get every variant of the mk 1 👍🏻
 
I’ve had the punto in for mot today and she passed ok 😀, I had to have the top steering column bearing replaced before the mot as there was a bit of play in the wheel.
The mechanic seems to think it is due to me using one of the big disc locks on the steering wheel for years.
Andy with the yellow sporting had it in his showroom over night while it was being done, it didn’t look out of place amongst the shiny BMW’s 🤣
 

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I attended the auto italia show at Carlton towers today , beautiful venue , nice spread of Italian cars 👍🏻
 

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Had a good day at the mitcar show today,some nice mk 1 punto’s , three gt’s , sporting , cabrio and a td van 😮 .
 

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