General The last green Fantasia

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General The last green Fantasia

The sub in the back of my Fantasia (that I haven't got round to removing yet) makes water patterns in the roof when its wet and the mirrors are useless if I'm listening to anything with gusto.
 
So my Fizz is as good as sold and there are a couple of little jobs that needed doing today.

The dashboard lights still do not work. I've checked the bulbs, fuse and contacts; all is well. The number plate light on the divers side had failed and the passenger side one was dim. New bulb in the passenger side and the clip had come off the bulb holder so I've borrowed one from my Fantasia. Number plate lights now work but the dash still doesn't (it was a long shot but I thought that might help). I have an LED strip light I can put in there and fed from the green headlight indicator on the dash itself. It'll look a bit pants bit it'll work.

:)
 
I would point out towards light switch, dismantle, clean the contacts, fit and check. One of those four little plastic latches cracked not giving same ammount of pressure to the contacs, giving me intermited dash lighs and tails, after being pulled by police had a closer look and replaced the switch all fine now.
 
Last night my Fizz was a star...

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...for about six seconds on Panorama. :)

For the record and before any moderators remove the image. The actor was not breaking into my car if you at the bottom right of the last picture you can just see my hand where I unlocked the car with the key as he pretended to pull it with a wire hook. This was the "Magic of television". Pandas are notoriously difficult to break into. As the actor found after trying for an hour. :devil:

I also received £350 for that so it works out about £53.66 a second. :D
 
After pillocking about with the Y10 for an hour I thought I'd give my Fantasia a few minutes.

Connected the battery, turned over and nothing. She wasn't getting fuel, so I pulled the pipe, primed the pump and spat the old tasting petrol into the carb.

Still nothing. Popped the distributor cap, cleaned the terminals and rotor arm.

Still nothing. Took the number on HT lead off and the inside of the cap was full of rust.

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Can you see what I did?

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8mm Silicone HT leads from my Uno Turbo that have been sat in my shed since 2002 now she's purring like a clockwork kitten FIRE engine should. :worship:
 
I'm thinking of getting rid of all my Fiat stuff and trying something else. So if anyone wants a Panda Fantasia restoration project I'll let her go for £500
 
For those of you who don't know (other thread followers) my lovely blue Punto HGT was written off by alleged shoplifters trying to flee my local supermarket.

:bang:

The insurance company gave me "book price" (Geof all!) so I needed a cheap car to tide me over until...


Long story short before it become a full on rant. I have my white Fizz back from London.

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Five day valet and Covid interior clean later and the old girl is pretty presentable. MOT runs out Thursday and she needs quite a bit of work so I'll have to find another daily while she undergoes surgery. :devil:
 
Well. I've had the mobile phone endoscope inside the holes to see how much of a peeling the onion operation rust repair is going to be on the Fizz.

Other MOT items.

Passenger side headlight (reflector doesn't reflect).
Drivers side headlight (way off I think the adjust screw is broken).
Drivers seat belt.
Exhaust.
Handbrake.

Headlights are all but impossible to get hold of. My Fantasia has left hand drive headlights with right hand drive lenses that were "okay-ish" at best at the time but now would fail.
Seat belt in black is no problem finding a colour match should be fairly straight forward but potentially expensive if it has to be made to order.
Exhaust and handbrake no problems there.

Welding. Five/ten years ago, no problem, I used to enjoy it. Now, not so much.

Inner arch where it meed the boot floor, floor where it meets the sill, inner structure around the ends of the sills, inner rear arches where the seat belts anchor, both rear wheel arches and that's without getting the car on ramps. Minimum cut the rear quarters off so I can remove all the rust, weld in new metal and new quarters. Complete respray and new "Fizz" graphics.

Bought with me heart not head so I think I have a load of spare parts for my Fantasia. :bang:
 
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