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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.
personally, I would chop out the number plate recess and cut it into flat sections, then fill the gap left with the peices of ABS you cut out and use a soldering iron to plastic weld them together.
Sand like frig,
fill,
sand
prime,
sand
ect...
 
personally, I would chop out the number plate recess and cut it into flat sections, then fill the gap left with the peices of ABS you cut out and use a soldering iron to plastic weld them together.
Sand like frig,
fill,
sand
prime,
sand
ect...

wicked, thats what i kinda thought i had to do, so thanks, i can get cracking :)
 
Re: From Rat to That... Seicento

Roller? Never thought of that, does it give you a slight ripple effect like gloss painting with a foam roller?
 
Re: From Rat to That... Seicento

Roller? Never thought of that, does it give you a slight ripple effect like gloss painting with a foam roller?

it did, i thinned it down a tad more though, To a consistancy like skimmed milk lol I squeezed most of the excess paint out and then rollered it, bubbles should like self level and dissapear, I did also sand bewteen the coats etc and use a cutting compound, Unfortunately the car is now for sale, hopefully if someone buys it they can rebuild her and keep her on the road. I dont have time to fix her as I have just bought myself a 3 series BMW. Gonna miss her :)
 
who's taking bets he'll have another cento before long then? You can't just leave you know, thats not how it works with these little cars.

oh soo true lol i did toy with the idea of pouring all the money into turboing etc, but needed a daily driver as wont be doing the work myself lol so would be a work in progress. im still gutted, had it booked in for clutch etc and full respray and had started working on smoothing the bumper.
 
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