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Fiat Bravo HGT race/track day car

Fiat Bravo HGT race/track day car

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Lot number 16
Hammer value £1,100
Description Fiat Bravo HGT race/track day car
Registration T252 YVO
Year 1999
Colour Grey Metallic
Engine size 1,998 cc
Chassis No. ZFA18200004787440
Engine No. 787440

Hardly seen on the roads these days, the Fiat Bravo once offered a decent opponent to the Ford Mondeo in the European markets, winning the coveted ‘European Car of the Year’ award on its launch.

From 1995 to 2002 most of them ‘did their duty’ being flogged up and down the motorways of Britain driving from one sales meeting to another, carefully monitored by fleet managers and accountants to ensure that Middle Manager Jones was driving economically. Lucky was the company rep who got to sit behind the wheel of the rarest Bravo, the 5-cylinder HGT, which came equipped with a host of extras but most importantly a stonking 155bhp 2-litre motor and a 135mph top speed. Honest John described the Bravo HGT as “a powerful, well-balanced hot hatch”.

The 1999 Bravo HGT on offer today has had two lives: in its first it was a normal fast road car pampered with a full service record up to 85,000 miles (sadly since mislaid); more exciting was its second incarnation as a race car. Chosen because of the amount of ‘bang for your buck’ that a powerful Italian hot hatch offers, it was sent to be prepared for Evo Magazine’s own race series for ‘Tin Tops’.

The HGT was equipped with a full roll cage and a plumbed in fire extinguisher system. Fitted with five-point harnesses that are still in date and a competition bucket seat, it also has a sealed battery box. Keeping the car heading in the right direction are adjustable struts and a strut brace at the front with adjustable spring platforms at the rear. The 17” alloys look smart and are fitted with slicks, whilst the engine benefits from better breathing via an induction kit and a custom exhaust system. Power output has increased to 170bhp from 155bhp as standard.

Used by the vendor (an ex-National Hill Climb Champion) both as a road car and as an instruction car for younger drivers at track days, it has provided easy mannered fast circuit experience at a fraction of the cost of a full blown race car. As far as the vendor knows it has never been raced in anger, having been the victim of changing regulations and plans.

A fast reliable race/rally/track day car loaded with potential and some very desirable modifications, it is being offered here at the price of a second-hand Chinese moped. It comes with a V5 logbook, 8 old MOT test certificates (but no current MOT) and did have a rolling road printout showing 170bhp but this has been mislaid along with the early service history.

So go on, how many times have you thought that you could drive fast around Silverstone, or take the perfect line around the esses at Shelsey? Entry to motorsport doesn’t come much cheaper than this.

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