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I had a Cinquecento Sporting as my first car back in 1997. Had it for a few years, before selling and upgrading to an Alfa 33 16v followed by an Alfa 155, Alfa 75, a couple of 156s and a Marea 20v before ending up in a variety of Japanese and German company cars.
In between, I've also had a 1970 124 Spider and an Imola Blue Sporting which I bought in 2009 and built into a track day special (Punto 75 cam, induction kit, stainless exhaust, super chip, Bilstein suspension, bucket seat, Momo steering wheel etc), but sold it when I had a heart attack and was unable to drive it due to the heavy steering.
Roll on nearly 8 years, I sold a Trabant (which was a drunken eBay purchase) and started looking for a Seicento Schumacher.
After trawling all kinds of sheddy basic Sportings being advertised as Schumachers, and overpriced cars, I found a reasonable example on the Isle of Wight and collected it a couple of weeks ago.
Just given it a quick colour-match polish today... it has seen some paint over the years and is far from perfect, but it's a straight and honest car with only 56k miles on the clock and a cam belt done within the last 2 years / 10k miles.
I'm going to keep it as a long-term investment as I reckon these things will become sought after, just as 126s have. But it won't stop me using it on track days, starting at Castle Combe next Thursday.
I would post photos, but it seems I can't until I've made more posts!
In between, I've also had a 1970 124 Spider and an Imola Blue Sporting which I bought in 2009 and built into a track day special (Punto 75 cam, induction kit, stainless exhaust, super chip, Bilstein suspension, bucket seat, Momo steering wheel etc), but sold it when I had a heart attack and was unable to drive it due to the heavy steering.
Roll on nearly 8 years, I sold a Trabant (which was a drunken eBay purchase) and started looking for a Seicento Schumacher.
After trawling all kinds of sheddy basic Sportings being advertised as Schumachers, and overpriced cars, I found a reasonable example on the Isle of Wight and collected it a couple of weeks ago.
Just given it a quick colour-match polish today... it has seen some paint over the years and is far from perfect, but it's a straight and honest car with only 56k miles on the clock and a cam belt done within the last 2 years / 10k miles.
I'm going to keep it as a long-term investment as I reckon these things will become sought after, just as 126s have. But it won't stop me using it on track days, starting at Castle Combe next Thursday.
I would post photos, but it seems I can't until I've made more posts!