P3P: As Featured in Unique Cars. Twice. (Fiat 128 3P Restoration.)
Picture this: A muggy, drizzly day. I'm Googling. Up comes the following image: Mmm , I think. A bit like mine. A LOT like mine. Blows photo up. IS mine! Turns out that P3P* was listed in Unique Cars’ sales section way back in March, 2001. The paint was redder then; it looks like someone still cared for her. Then, sixteen years later, Unique Cars' Cliff Chambers pens this gem: https://www.tradeuniquecars.com.au/feature-cars/1701/lamborghini-countach-fiat-128-the-cars-that-got-away . Seems that one of the cars didn't really get away, though. My best guess is that P3P didn't sell and ended up under a tree in the would-be-seller's back yard where it stayed, unloved, until I bought it at auction in late 2021. Rust did eventually "show its pock-marked face," as Cliff so poetically put it, but, fortunately, only where it was easy to cut out. Her duco's not as red as it was, either, but that’ll be fixed some day. Just in case yo...