...And then a Purchase!

So on the 30/05/13 we noticed this little chap for sale on eBay:

The eBay advert

We didn't intend to buy one so soon, but there was something about this one that just seemed right. It was a 500F from 1970, where the owner had just begun restoring it but had decided to sell it and his other restoration projects due to unforeseen circumstances.

The price was good, and it already had the 650cc engine and synchromesh gearbox from the Fiat 126. The body was in generally good condition. The owner, Mike, had been kind enough to put lots of photos online of the current condition of the car during the auction:

Mike had started to strip the car and prepare the body for paint work. The parts he had taken off had been labelled and stored sensibly. Did it look too good to be true? Maybe, but it was worth a punt we thought! 

We decided to go for it, so on Sunday 02/6/13 we gathered around the computer anxiously waiting.......and after some edge-of-the-seat bidding, the car was ours!