ok just thought i would show all Spanky my 97 Fiat Brava 1.6 i decided to get back on the raod again around febuary so started looking for a car was looking at all options and then i seen it the Brava i never even heard of the bravo/a marea lineup before this so i bought him in march 2006
and here he is the little baby i now have known as Spanky
65k on the clock taxed and mot for 6 months and absolutly nothing wrong with it old people owned and cared for so has probably never been above 30Mph and the price was £650 so i decided to take him as it was very different to what i was wanting and a challenge to mod so the challenge has begun
whats first..... well cant do steelies can i so ordered the very rare rims only test produced and no longer available wolfrace shadow chrome sepangs in a lovely 17"
i had also added some uprated discs and then ordered specialy made up paint for my calipers (oh helz i have plenty more of this paint if you are interested )
but gee you say look at the ground clearance hmm your right i started to decide between suspension or body and the body won ordered the laserline kit from poland then it arrived 7 days later :worship: wow what an ass yes the bumper was HUGE
so spanky went into the garage to have his new clothes fitted and fitted well they did
but the standard exhaust wouldnt work with this new car so i had a new one built from scratch with duplex ovals
but there was a problem with the steel a contamination in the compound so the exhaust had to be remade and i was still waiting on the ovals so had to make do with plain old round pipes for a week
so as you can guess was pretty chuffed with the way it was looking so i added a few engine details in the form of a RAID induction kit and a MOMO strut brace just to tidy it up a bit and took a couple of nice pics to show off
Then the unbeleivable happened (queue shocking music)
had the car 1 week at my door step and this
Some student girl decided she liked my car that much she wanted a closer look with her renault clio and got to close burst her tyre on my allow and dragged her clio along side of my car totaling the left hand side of the car
Pissed you bet i was :bang: was gonna kill her
how proud of my car was i
purple hair proud i was and she killed it so she didnt want the insurance involved and she would pay for whats needing fixed so off to fiat i go and for a pointer never go to fiat for a price
doors £300 each to be replaced
front wing £90
rear quarter panel £100
painting left side £300
labour to fix all £500
BUT she gave me the money for that quote
so took to my mate at his garage
2 doors from scrappy £30 each
1 front wing £25
painting £200
rear quarter fixing £50
labour = £0
= loads left so what could i do next
yup added the holoflake to the car
took it to the shop again and he started work on the prepping of the car
phone call 5 days later car is ready to be picked up again and it was a sunny day cor blimey you have never seen anything so shinney in your life as a newly painted car WITH holoflake going through it
couple of night time shots aswell
then i couldnt have the inside sounding normal could i
got on the phone to a couple of people for ease of installation for the time being then slapped in these bad boys great value for money no matter what anybody thinks about them
then i uprated the car battery to cope with all the extras i have also added a ful UFO kit to the car which is just basicaly a flash addition although not to everyones taste but hey its all fun
so its all been ups and downs but a lot can happen in 6 months and thats what exactly did happen hope you all have fun reading and viewing this
and here he is the little baby i now have known as Spanky
65k on the clock taxed and mot for 6 months and absolutly nothing wrong with it old people owned and cared for so has probably never been above 30Mph and the price was £650 so i decided to take him as it was very different to what i was wanting and a challenge to mod so the challenge has begun
whats first..... well cant do steelies can i so ordered the very rare rims only test produced and no longer available wolfrace shadow chrome sepangs in a lovely 17"
i had also added some uprated discs and then ordered specialy made up paint for my calipers (oh helz i have plenty more of this paint if you are interested )
but gee you say look at the ground clearance hmm your right i started to decide between suspension or body and the body won ordered the laserline kit from poland then it arrived 7 days later :worship: wow what an ass yes the bumper was HUGE
so spanky went into the garage to have his new clothes fitted and fitted well they did
but the standard exhaust wouldnt work with this new car so i had a new one built from scratch with duplex ovals
but there was a problem with the steel a contamination in the compound so the exhaust had to be remade and i was still waiting on the ovals so had to make do with plain old round pipes for a week
so as you can guess was pretty chuffed with the way it was looking so i added a few engine details in the form of a RAID induction kit and a MOMO strut brace just to tidy it up a bit and took a couple of nice pics to show off
Then the unbeleivable happened (queue shocking music)
had the car 1 week at my door step and this
Some student girl decided she liked my car that much she wanted a closer look with her renault clio and got to close burst her tyre on my allow and dragged her clio along side of my car totaling the left hand side of the car
Pissed you bet i was :bang: was gonna kill her
how proud of my car was i
purple hair proud i was and she killed it so she didnt want the insurance involved and she would pay for whats needing fixed so off to fiat i go and for a pointer never go to fiat for a price
doors £300 each to be replaced
front wing £90
rear quarter panel £100
painting left side £300
labour to fix all £500
BUT she gave me the money for that quote
so took to my mate at his garage
2 doors from scrappy £30 each
1 front wing £25
painting £200
rear quarter fixing £50
labour = £0
= loads left so what could i do next
yup added the holoflake to the car
took it to the shop again and he started work on the prepping of the car
phone call 5 days later car is ready to be picked up again and it was a sunny day cor blimey you have never seen anything so shinney in your life as a newly painted car WITH holoflake going through it
couple of night time shots aswell
then i couldnt have the inside sounding normal could i
got on the phone to a couple of people for ease of installation for the time being then slapped in these bad boys great value for money no matter what anybody thinks about them
then i uprated the car battery to cope with all the extras i have also added a ful UFO kit to the car which is just basicaly a flash addition although not to everyones taste but hey its all fun
so its all been ups and downs but a lot can happen in 6 months and thats what exactly did happen hope you all have fun reading and viewing this