After all these years you'd think that Shed would realise that a Ferrari 355 advertised at £2 in PH Classifieds probably wasn't genuine. Luckily the smarter folk at PH Towers did realise that and pulled it from Shed of the Week just before it went live. Everyone apologises for the delay and Shed has been told to sit on some broken glass for half an hour as punishment.
Here's an appropriate late replacement for that bogus Fezza, a bright and spangly Punto Sporting in the 10mph faster shade of baboon's bum red. Given the lateness of the upload and the fact that Shed is in purdah we won't labour you with too many words on it. However, we can tell you that this is a debut appearance for the Punto Sporting, a fun little thing that came out in 2007 with a 118hp/152lb ft turbo 1.4 engine, an 8-second 0-62mph time (just), a 121mph top end, and combined economy of 43mpg.
Pretty good numbers even now, and more than enough to fulfil the Italian warm hatch mission statement of merciless thrashing in front of as many admirers of the opposite sex as you could find. The turbo made it torquier than a Fiesta ST and you had the expected accoutrements of nice 17in alloys, spoiler and rorty pipe. Only the superlight steering let the side down a bit, and that was before you pressed the City button to make it even lighter.
Yes, the strip of gaffer tape on the (presumably rusty) offside wheel arch of this one is not exactly subtle, and it's a fair bet that the other one will be going the same way, but as it stands the new MOT is clean and there has been very little cause for concern on previous reports other than one comment on the 2017 test which could have been scribbled out by a relation of Gerald off Clarkson's Farm: 'rear exhaust box very crusty bot blowing yert'. Answers on a postcard please.
Sadly Shed is out on this one, not because he doesn't like the car but because of the metal studs on the seats. He doesn't talk about this much, but as a result of an unfortunate smelting accident many years ago he is not 'complete' down below.
At the time of the incident, magnetism was all the rage as the cure for practically everything, so Shed volunteered for a radical new procedure that involved the replacement of his missing sweetbreads with two magnetic iron spheres and the insertion of a thin bi-metallic strip in his old chap. It was hoped that the combination would result in everything pointing due north when he wore a special girdle but it never really worked. The magnetic marbles were never removed, so Shed would never risk getting into this Punto in case he couldn't get out of it.
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