One-owner Fiat has its first failure

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When a bright red Fiat 128 Sport Coupe stopped outside his house and the owner disappeared under the car’s bonnet, Londoner Ray Pratt decided to go and have a look. And he was much surprised with the owner’s story. The mint Fiat turned out to have ran just 20,900 miles from new, most of which were clocked up between January 1974 and sometime in 1976, up until when it was used by its first and only owner.

Ray: “It was his daily driver when his wife wanted to learn to drive. But he didn't want her learning in his Fiat so bought her a Mini to learn on. The Fiat then became a second car and was then just left in the garage. His reason for using it now was because it's tax exempt!”

But then it broke down after being driven for the first time in a long time. Ray: “I spent ages chatting to him while trying to discover why it had stopped. It looked like a perished fuel pipe into the fuel filter. While he was turning it over I stuck my head under the bonnet and could see air bubbles going into the glass filter and there was a small leak under the filter. Eventually I helped him push it home - it was light as a feather!”

(Words editor, pictures Ray Pratt)

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