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Welcome to the CLUB126UK Forum => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: e-vis on March 17, 2009, 03:45:06 PM

Title: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: e-vis on March 17, 2009, 03:45:06 PM

Hello everyone I recently found a red 1990 126 bis on ebay and hit the watch item button. The next thing i know the girlfriend had taken a look at my watch items and fallen in love woth it and decided to call it Hugo. So a nerve wracking auction end and £200 (plus £60 for delivery from hull to lincoln) later we took delivery of him.

Pictures of him are on the girlfriends flickr site below. including the original ebay pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32080728@N05/sets/72157615378561866/

The car has seen better days and the bodywork needs a good helping of tlc but the floor is nice and solid with what looks like quite a few fresh-ish welds in it. We put a battery on it and with a jump from my cinquecento it roared into life and ran fine till it drank all its petrol. The brakes however are almost non-existent so i will be giving it a good service this weekend and looking at them to see if i can get them to work properly.

The plans for it are to get it M.O.T'd and taxed cheaply then sort out the scabby bits maybe try my hand at a home-brew re-spray as i have been wanting to learn the ropes and then it will be used for road rallies and slowly turned into a cheap stage rally car.

This site is great and I'm looking forward to becoming a part of the community.

Ed.

Title: Re: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: Rusty's Uncle on March 17, 2009, 04:07:15 PM

 (-* Looks like your fun is just about to start so good luck. Brake parts are as cheap as chips if you keep a look out on eBay. As a Cinque owner you can use the same calipers & do a disc brake conversion on the front end with the right adaptor plates. I guess a large part of that delivery charge was a local tax for hauling a rusty Fiat over the Humber Bridge  </4 </8 </4

Title: Re: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: e-vis on March 17, 2009, 04:38:37 PM

yeah I'm pretty sure it was.  I was looking through the site and noticed a few people have been doing the disc conversion. Has anyone made the adapter themselves? is there a template at all?

Title: Re: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: Gordan on March 17, 2009, 04:52:13 PM

Heloo...  (-*
Good luck with your 126, i really love red 126es  :oops: :)

Title: Re: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: dajwid on March 17, 2009, 05:03:53 PM

Hi welcome, good luck with the car. Are you the person flashing his arse at the poor little 126 in picture 5 ?

Title: Re: Hello all introducing hugo
Post by: e-vis on March 17, 2009, 05:07:30 PM

hahaha yes its obligatory as a workman to have a bit of cleavage