FIAT 500L - RHD 1 Owner for Auction on The Market

This car is in auction on The Market website. The auction is LIVE now and finishes on 22nd February. Price is an estimate.

Bought as Sheila’s first car, this is a genuine one-owner-from-new Fiat 500 with only 43,000 miles under its belt. It cost her £650 back in 1972, which included the £50 premium for the Lusso specification. (Well, if it’s your first car, and a new one at that, you might as well splash out, eh?)

Despite being her first car, Sheila quickly adapted to the need to double de-clutch and used it as her daily driver for the next eighteen years. Only ever driven locally (its longest journey was from Pontefract to Doncaster!), we are told that it has never been raced or rallied; in fact, we’re told that it has only ever overtaken one other vehicle. Which was a pushbike…

Garaged since 1990, the car turns over but doesn’t start. A dodgy fuel pump is suspected, and a spare comes with the vehicle as part of the comprehensive spares package that a kindly passerby offered her for free. (This is the sort of thing that happens to you when you own a Fiat 500.)

The Fiat looks to be straight but in need of restoration. There is some rust, most notably on the offside rear wheelarch and the underside, which looks a bit crusty.

Given the fact that it has been in storage since 1990, we would strongly encourage potential bidders to take a look at it for themselves so they understand exactly what they’re bidding on and the amount of restorative work that will be required.

However, that said, the rest looks to be in remarkably good condition; the chromework, for example, looks pretty good considering the length of time it’s been off the road, as do the rest of the panels. The chrome wheel trims are a little rusty but look like they might polish up okay.

Even the sliding sunroof looks to be in good shape, although we suspect that it, like the tyres, might have perished over the years and need replacing as a matter of course.

The spares package includes two headlights, two rear lights, two front wings, and a front panel.

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The vehicle can be viewed in Pontefract.

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