This is indeed a curious story. The 128 of Diego Armando Maradona. A car with no great commercial value, but an emotional one. A car at 0 km. A car from 1982, when El Pibe de Oro was bought by Barcelona. And that car became his Christmas present. He didn’t have time to drive it, and then he became Maradona. So the 128 was not a model for its status. And, therefore, he remained in Argentina to keep company with the chickens in the countryside.
In 2003, however, Martin Varrone, a car collector, found it in Salto, province of Buenos Aires. Abandoned next to the chicken coop, as mentioned, but with the documents. “I went to the car register and asked for the data for the patent number. And the file was there. The car had been in Diego’s name since he bought it at kilometer 0. The procedures had been done by Jorge Cyterszpiler, who at that time time was his manager “.
The Fiat 128 was launched in 1969 and has been sold in Argentina since 1971. It is a small sedan, it was marketed until 1991, it had 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 liter engines and several evolutions such as the 5-speed gearbox.
Now Varrone put it up for auction on December 15, and the offer started at $ 400,000. The deadline will be 60 days. Where in the world will it end up?
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