Cinquecento New Imola blue project

[icheatatscrabble]

Love it. You have a helluva lot of grinding out, welding to do there! Impressive paddling pool behind passenger front seat. You'll probably have to fabricate that rear exhaust hanger, as they are as rare as hen's teeth these days - wish I had bought the one I was watching on ebay, last year. Although the one on my Sporting is in good nick.

You can buy the two outer sills for £107 on ebay.

I will be checking back on your progress - hope you can get her back on the road.

 

[Davies23]

Love it. You have a helluva lot of grinding out, welding to do there! Impressive paddling pool behind passenger front seat. You'll probably have to fabricate that rear exhaust hanger, as they are as rare as hen's teeth these days - wish I had bought the one I was watching on ebay, last year. Although the one on my Sporting is in good nick.

You can buy the two outer sills for £107 on ebay.

I will be checking back on your progress - hope you can get her back on the road.

I’ve got the new sill for the passenger side, drivers one seems absolutely perfect minus some pickle that I’ll treat with some chemical rust converter.

As well as that I’ve got a new arch as well to go on.

 

[Terry899]

Nice to see you get one of these cars. I have both a 899s and an imola blue sporting. My 899 is in regular use and its actually my favourite cinq, In my case the sporting hasn't moved in years as it needs a head gasket. Can't see me ever parting with either and one day I'll sort the sporting out....
Good luck with your car and post updates when you can.

 

[Davies23]

So following up from my most recent post about getting the car, I found that a lot of welding was required and involved to get it up and going again.
A small price to pay considering I got the car for just over £200 and I have another imola that’s identical and having two matching was what I was after.

I picked up an already half stripped solid shell for £60 had rear beam, engine, suspension but no interior or panels.

Had solid rear arches and a few cuts were taken from the inner sills, and floor pan as well as the drivers side arche.

So far inner sills been sorted and I’ve acquired and outer arch repair panel and sill.

 

[ben]

Good luck with the restore, looks fun! I've converted this to a build thread, so do keep us updated

 

[blu73]

good luck, following.

 

[strateg88]

Good luck! Have a fun!

 

[Davies23]

 

[Terry899]

Nice clean welds. Clean up the back and see how bad it is so you'll know what needs doing....