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I guess my story could have been so different but after a difficult year I decided to purchase a 2000 silver Puma 1.7 as a track day toy, with some help from my karting sponsers I came up with a resonable budget to also cover the car being on track. My first thought was a fiesta Zetec S as i had owned one for 5 years and loved it to bits, its also how I came to meet some great people over a ZSOC, one of them being Ben Hatton. Some of you who are long standing members will recall Ben owned FRP398 a car he described as the best handling machine ever made. Ben and I were likely to have done this track car together however a routine operation went sadly wrong and he passed away in July 2011.
Not wanting to give up on his dreams I decided to do the track car in his memory for this year, I went with the Puma as new the 1.7 engine was far better than the 1.6 in the Fiesta so on a cold January day I found one up for £650 with 6mths MOT and Tax, Car was solid with only one wheel arch needing repair, airbag light on and tyres pretty shot. had full history so I offered £500 and it was job done.
I took it for a track day in february to see if I liked it, it was just like being on a large karting track!, the car pulled really well and although it needed a few changes on set up the base line of the car was good enough.
So my mechanic started changing a few bits on it, suspension was replaced with - GMAX - 30mm, Brakes changed, Full service, bushes replaced, Cat back exhaust, went for a Sportex set up and have to say for the money its a bargain, lastly rubber which was done with Yokohama parada spec 2
I haven't stripped it out just in case I need to sell it to raise some cash.
As part of the tribute to Ben and the fact one of our sponsers is a sign company we are putting some graphics on it, these have yet to be finished.
This post has been edited by Guy5: 12 May 2012 - 10:07 PM
cheers
