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Seicento 'A little break from the norm' 1.1 Sporting

Introduction

Matte Grey and Black OEM 1.1 Seicento Sporting

So to start, I previously made a thread before, but it was closed etc. I have been on quite a journey with the little seicento sporting.
so I will start from the beginning, fresh.

I purchased the car roughly a year ago. Within an hour of owning the clutch cable went, so the car was offroad for a few days then. A months after that, the alternator failed lol so a new bosch battery and alternator was fitted. Since that it has also had a new rocker cover gasket and new leads and plugs etc.

Ok so from the beginning, this is how it looked:
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i didnt really like the orange indicators etc so i purchased some clear ones:
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the car had some pretty bad dents, mostly being the biggest one in the bonnet:
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i think you can just about see it here.

I did a lot of reasearch on here about springs etc, i was firstly on the lookout for coilovers but I managed to get some 50/60mm springs off ebay for £20 lol

had them fitted a few months later and this is how she sat:
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around this sorta time, i started to want to go down a rat look stage (not the sorta wrecked rat look, but the old skool 50s rat look)

I purchased a cherry bomb exhaust - I knew a few cinqs etc but no seis??
so I called Chris from Imagination Creations and he set to work. It was a centre exit made exhaust and obviously it was cut throught the back bumper:
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one of the very later mods I actually did was debadge it lol looked so much nicer without them!!

I was tempted with mattig and dtm mirrors also but decided to custom make baseplates for some bullet mirrors ( I now despise the mirrors lol and have oem ones on) i made the base plates and screwed my bullet mirrors on

so from here i was pretty much full on rat mode - so i sanded the car right back, filled all the dents etc and painted the car in grey primer:
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it took ages a was my first ever time painting a car lol

I them purchased some 13" steel wheels and rully refurbed them in matte grey with 'atlas' whitewall tyre trims:
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as every good rat car needs is a roof rack, so i custom built one frm other bits of rack, wasnt really that difficult, just a case of making brackets and shortening tubes etc:
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I also got some very positive feedback at a classic car show i went to which was nice, and upto a few months ago this is how she sat:
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Then after a few little bits and pieces here and there, I lost all love for the car in its current state and wanted a totally different look to the car. so i stopped for a few months and srating to get the car running nice and being sensible (growing up eh??) and ripped off the silly useless chrome mirrors and replaced with my OEM ones (I sprayed them gloss black)
refurbed my Cinq alloys and sprayed them gloss black. I had a spare bonnet with was taken back to bare metal had the bnnet welded up and smoothed:
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sprayed in filler primer and red oxide primer allover and given a nce over with hammerite and painted gloss black to match the wheels etc and fund some old tal light tinting spray and gave my old indicator lenses a going over.
and this is the final result:
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so there it is, a few things still need changing ie the stickers need taking off, and the green trim needs painting (im thinking pink lol)

so yeah, the car is runing really nicely,for me its all about having a decent runner bout now, the brakes are being done in the next few months too and the smoked indicator lenses will be replaced with proper manufactored built ones as their is that grey line with smked indicator lol

Thanks ever so much.
looks quite cool actually, but not a fan of cinq wheels on a sei. sei wheels on a cinq looks ok but not the other way round (but thats my taste, so long as you like it).

Some pressed black & silver numberplates (for show use only obviously) would look epic i reckon..

dammm you harder to please than simon cowell lol
 
looks quite cool actually, but not a fan of cinq wheels on a sei. sei wheels on a cinq looks ok but not the other way round (but thats my taste, so long as you like it).

Some pressed black & silver numberplates (for show use only obviously) would look epic i reckon..

reminds me lol i have some black and silver vinyl stick on plates stuck underneath the actual plates lol they do look wicked.

i must admit, i dont really like sei wheels and cinq wheels are a tad different lol i like them in black not in standard.
 
i think i might paint the little trim under the bonnet in gloss black, i think it may just be me but i think the bonnet looks to plain lol it needs a damn good clean etc but i might place a small decal on the front near the headlight.
 
Its looking really tidy mate (y)
did kinda like the white wall tires thought :)
and i'de go for the underbonet trim to be gloss black (y)

josh

whitewalls are a bastard to keep clean lol but just sold for 80 notes on ebay lol

yeah painted it pink 5 minutes ago but doesnt suit lol i wanted to spray it a different colour to make it like a little accent but doesnt really work
 
the roughest spray job ever lol literally took 2 mins to do lol its just to get an idea:
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had a little fart arse go with photoshop on the numberplate blanking lol

Edit: as you can see the tinted indicator lenses have been taken off (They're being lacquered, but may not keep)
 
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I'm thinking about painting mine yellow.. think red would look good on yours with the grey and black..

And rough indeed, i can still see green bits lol

:eek::eek::eek::eek: yeah i know lol i forgot to follow the contours (n) also re is what im thinking of doing too, ill d that tomorrow. I saw a lush bmw with similar paint set up and red wheels and mirrors
 
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Also i have 2 smashed fog light lenses, one actually functions but the other i have tried to take the lense off (passenger) but the screw holding is so badly warped it has no threaded on it what so ever, so a screwdriver won't fit in to turn, how can i get it out?
 
im looking at getting a plain black sunstrip for my sei, i know the wipers cant go within 1cm of the wiper sweep - is that correct, so people get smaller wipers. So, is that just a case of getting the same wiper fitment just shorter blades? or do you need a new wiper arm etc - if so ill be pi$$ed as ive just bought new blades lol
 
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