====== Cars ======

I like cars, specially singular ones. I enjoy driving them.

===== Fiat 500 1.4 =====

The Fiat 500 is my usual car. This is one of the few 500 built with a 1.4 L 100 HP petrol engine, which is the base for the Abarth 500. Almost all the 500 cars were built with a 3-cylinder petrol engine or 4-cylinder diesel engines. All of them with fewer HPs.

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===== Mercury V8 =====

On my holidays in 2012 I visited my friend Hugo at his house on the beach and I spent few days there. His neighbour had parked a stunning Mercury on the street and let us have a ride on it. That was a great car with hundreds of horsepowers and a very good looking state:

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===== Pontiac =====

As a present my wife made me on my birthday, I drove a Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am:

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That was a V8 5.6L Trans-Am.

===== Gustavo's Land Rover Santana =====


Next year she made me another drive-a-singular-car present: an off-road ride on a Land Rover Santana over the Collserola nature park:

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The owner of the car is Gustavo, a member of [[https://historics.org|Club Històrics]].

===== Our Land Rover Santana 109 6 cylinder =====

I enjoyed so much that experience I bought a Land Rover Santana for my wife and me. That is the **LR Santana 109 6 cylinders**.

This car is powered by a diesel 6 in-line cylinder 3.5L engine. We bought it really cheap and we have been improving it by replacing the 4 speed gear box with a 5 speed one and adding a power steering. 

We also have been isolating the cabin and added a sofa-bed, a diesel heating system, a second battery and a fridge. The mechanical improvements were done by [[https://www.autofernandez.es/|Autofernández Vilafranca]] and the comfort modifications were made by [[https://bivaccamper.com/|Bivac Camper]].

Some initial modifications like the installation of a pair of running boards and a steel bumper, the skeleton for the cupboards and the adaptation for the sofa-bed were made by our friend and blacksmith Albert Prat.

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