There are a number of ’80s-’90s cars you just don’t see anymore. Old Fiats seem to vanish at an alarming rate, like they have always done, and by now the Fiat Uno is a rare sight on our roads. They sold reasonably well when new, as they were pretty cheap, but that just meant they were disposable. And right now, first generation Puntos are going the way of the dodo, joining the ranks of Unos gotten ground to little bits of metal and rust flakes.
This survivor Uno isn’t clean, but it’s holding on.



There seems to have been two kinds of Unos, either ones that wouldn’t develop a speck of rust or those that disintegrated quickly. This 1.1-litre, fuel-injected late model car has been welded and primered to withstand just a little longer.

The facelift Uno is not quite as pure a piece of design as the initial cars, but it’s somehow a little more mature effort. I do think one could still pick up a clean example for cheap, tidy it up even more and tuck it away for the future, when almost all of them have disappeared. It wouldn’t need to be a turbo version or even remotely hot, just a good old Uno that does its best.
[Images: Copyright 2015 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen]