My love affair for Fiat's started at a very young age as my dad has always had Fiat's & had loads over the years, when I was growing up he had a few 131's including Mirafiori Sport which he still has now & a gold 131 panorama 1600cl auto which he paid £45 for, Regatta's which he absolutely hated, loads of Panda's as they were just brilliant, an Uno which went through front springs like they were going out of fashion 
, MK1 Punto 55 sx, & there were 3 127's including 1 sport to which my dad rolled all 3 of them, fast forward to 2011 I passed my test, I remember insurance was an issue as it was really dear & i ended up with a bright pink Cinquecento as my first car for about £300 which lasted about 8 months until it fell apart & i crashed into a Peugeot 306 at 80 mph when the old lady driving it decided to pull straight out in front of me, to which I still drive it home afterwards & the insurance took it away, wrote it off instantly category B if I remember right as it had crumbled all the inner wing, front legs were proper bent & the engine was pushed back & gearbox was ripped off the engine hanging by 1 or 2 bolts resulting in the bulkhead being pushed back into the cabin & they gave me 3 times what I paid for it 
, then I got a Bravo 80 SX which had all the creature comforts compared to the Cinquecento but found it really boring & dull to drive, that wasn't let of so easily either went through 2 hedges in the space of about 3 days, the sills rotted along with the edges of the arches to which I slapped some of my grandads coach paint on them being nearly a match on colour as I was 18 & very skint, then I got my first Mini which my dad got me about a year or so later so he had the Bravo for a few months as his Panda got written off, until the diff went bang & we decided to scrap it in 2015 as it was a right pig by that point & not worth the work, fast forward to 2018 & I'd being driving the Mini everyday for 4 years & the bodywork was looking a bit ropey & questionable along with gearbox issues so I started to look for another car so I could do the Mini up (which never happened as it was too far gone), I never planned to buy a new car originally but used car prices had gone through the roof so i started looking at deals on new Fiat's as they wasn't too much more money at the time, to which in the end it was between a Tipo & a Panda, sat in a Tipo & just didn't like it & so a Panda it was, so my dad & stepmum were looking for me whilst I worked every hour under the sun to get the money together which I managed in less than 4 months, my dad rings me up on the Friday & goes to me come to mine early in the morning, i found a Fiat dealer who have 5 new pre reg Pandas for £7,995, so we went to Tunbridge Wells on the Saturday morning originally for a white Panda, we got there & there were 4 white & 1 black, I ended up being more drawn to the black one away from the rest of them as it just stood out, went for a test drive then started negotiating with the dealer who was about 90 i think & threw loads in as part of the deal, the deal was done on 30th June 2018, I remember the dealer being quite shocked though as I was 24 years old & buying a brand new car outright instead of being on finance & i drove the Mini around for 1 last week whilst Thames Fiat were doing the PDI checks on Luigi & on its final evening on the road went for 1 last spirited drive before hanging the keys up for good & picked up Luigi on 7th July 2018, got him home & gave him a polish & wax & that was where our adventures began which are still going 6 years later with many more to come over time
7th July 2018 after I picked him up
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, MK1 Punto 55 sx, & there were 3 127's including 1 sport to which my dad rolled all 3 of them, fast forward to 2011 I passed my test, I remember insurance was an issue as it was really dear & i ended up with a bright pink Cinquecento as my first car for about £300 which lasted about 8 months until it fell apart & i crashed into a Peugeot 306 at 80 mph when the old lady driving it decided to pull straight out in front of me, to which I still drive it home afterwards & the insurance took it away, wrote it off instantly category B if I remember right as it had crumbled all the inner wing, front legs were proper bent & the engine was pushed back & gearbox was ripped off the engine hanging by 1 or 2 bolts resulting in the bulkhead being pushed back into the cabin & they gave me 3 times what I paid for it , then I got a Bravo 80 SX which had all the creature comforts compared to the Cinquecento but found it really boring & dull to drive, that wasn't let of so easily either went through 2 hedges in the space of about 3 days, the sills rotted along with the edges of the arches to which I slapped some of my grandads coach paint on them being nearly a match on colour as I was 18 & very skint, then I got my first Mini which my dad got me about a year or so later so he had the Bravo for a few months as his Panda got written off, until the diff went bang & we decided to scrap it in 2015 as it was a right pig by that point & not worth the work, fast forward to 2018 & I'd being driving the Mini everyday for 4 years & the bodywork was looking a bit ropey & questionable along with gearbox issues so I started to look for another car so I could do the Mini up (which never happened as it was too far gone), I never planned to buy a new car originally but used car prices had gone through the roof so i started looking at deals on new Fiat's as they wasn't too much more money at the time, to which in the end it was between a Tipo & a Panda, sat in a Tipo & just didn't like it & so a Panda it was, so my dad & stepmum were looking for me whilst I worked every hour under the sun to get the money together which I managed in less than 4 months, my dad rings me up on the Friday & goes to me come to mine early in the morning, i found a Fiat dealer who have 5 new pre reg Pandas for £7,995, so we went to Tunbridge Wells on the Saturday morning originally for a white Panda, we got there & there were 4 white & 1 black, I ended up being more drawn to the black one away from the rest of them as it just stood out, went for a test drive then started negotiating with the dealer who was about 90 i think & threw loads in as part of the deal, the deal was done on 30th June 2018, I remember the dealer being quite shocked though as I was 24 years old & buying a brand new car outright instead of being on finance & i drove the Mini around for 1 last week whilst Thames Fiat were doing the PDI checks on Luigi & on its final evening on the road went for 1 last spirited drive before hanging the keys up for good & picked up Luigi on 7th July 2018, got him home & gave him a polish & wax & that was where our adventures began which are still going 6 years later with many more to come over time7th July 2018 after I picked him up
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