richardb22
New member
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2015
- Messages
- 1
- Points
- 1
Parked 1,200 miles away is a righthand drive Fiat Uno Fire say 1988 + or - a year.
The owners my parents both in their 80's used it to tootle between a small flat to the local shops in Italy where they have a small flat which they got in the early 80's.
Well I hope they keep going till their 90s but my mum is now pretty blind and my dad found he had a heart condition. Driving is going to be out of the question. So this little car which starts first time every time has been driven around for 8 weeks for the last 20 years .
What on earth just leave it with a local mechanic or something I hear you say?
It's odd the way you think when you are in your 80's but my dad is resistant to the idea. ( local mechanic wants to charge him to scrap it )
This car can't by my reckoning be worth more than a few hundred quid if that, which is kind of absurd given a bicycle is worth that. But it works turn the ignition brmmm broom you have a nice little car ready to roll.
It can't be driven back to the UK as it is "extralegal" to drive where it is no road tax mot etc ( local police take a pragmatic view ) and to tow it to the UK would be maybe £500.
Options
1. Give it to a ocal technical college to play with. I would have to find one but leave that to me.
2. Some other deserving cause in Italy or flog it on an Italian auto trader.
4. Give it to the local mechanic ( and no we are not paying you to take it )
3. Keep it in its secure little parking spot under a block of apartments till my three year old turns 17 and drive it like a bat out of hell round a southern Italian village. Or strip it together in a what cars were 40 years ago project ( no idea what I would be doing but I can identify the basic components).
4. Learn how to weld and some mechanical skills and turn it into a bat mobile or ferrari look alike. Yeh. No kit cars so far as I know would use this as a base though. I have no skills to do anything from scratch.
5. Go complete "Dukes of Hazard " and try to jump the canal at next summers village festival.
It is odd that in this green century a functioning little car thats a blast to drive is for a scrap heap. I suppose thats why I am posting. It works . It could work for another 30 years. Throwing away a whole working car because it is old and unfashionable in some way offends me.
Ideas green or bonkers?
Richard
The owners my parents both in their 80's used it to tootle between a small flat to the local shops in Italy where they have a small flat which they got in the early 80's.
Well I hope they keep going till their 90s but my mum is now pretty blind and my dad found he had a heart condition. Driving is going to be out of the question. So this little car which starts first time every time has been driven around for 8 weeks for the last 20 years .
What on earth just leave it with a local mechanic or something I hear you say?
It's odd the way you think when you are in your 80's but my dad is resistant to the idea. ( local mechanic wants to charge him to scrap it )
This car can't by my reckoning be worth more than a few hundred quid if that, which is kind of absurd given a bicycle is worth that. But it works turn the ignition brmmm broom you have a nice little car ready to roll.
It can't be driven back to the UK as it is "extralegal" to drive where it is no road tax mot etc ( local police take a pragmatic view ) and to tow it to the UK would be maybe £500.
Options
1. Give it to a ocal technical college to play with. I would have to find one but leave that to me.
2. Some other deserving cause in Italy or flog it on an Italian auto trader.
4. Give it to the local mechanic ( and no we are not paying you to take it )
3. Keep it in its secure little parking spot under a block of apartments till my three year old turns 17 and drive it like a bat out of hell round a southern Italian village. Or strip it together in a what cars were 40 years ago project ( no idea what I would be doing but I can identify the basic components).
4. Learn how to weld and some mechanical skills and turn it into a bat mobile or ferrari look alike. Yeh. No kit cars so far as I know would use this as a base though. I have no skills to do anything from scratch.
5. Go complete "Dukes of Hazard " and try to jump the canal at next summers village festival.
It is odd that in this green century a functioning little car thats a blast to drive is for a scrap heap. I suppose thats why I am posting. It works . It could work for another 30 years. Throwing away a whole working car because it is old and unfashionable in some way offends me.
Ideas green or bonkers?
Richard
