No idea, it'll depend on when I wake up basically! 

Welcome to the AOC Graham!

Events-wise in the London area, every second Thursday of the month is Italian Night at the Ace Cafe, which is on the North Circular pretty close to Wembley, there's always more than a dozen Abarths that turn up, and a few of the 500 owners have done, well, let's say a little bit of work on their cars... 

You'll get power out of a 500 far easier than those of us with a Punto or 124, there are an awful lot running over 250, and a few running over 300 which is nuts in such a small machine. If you're on Facebook get yourself into the Abarth Owners Club and Abarth Modified groups on there, as that tends to be the best way to find out about events and will be the place to get answers to any and all questions, a lot less people frequent the forums than are on those groups.

I've just sent an email as well, already got a response so I guess you'll see my Punto there too!

Well you can buy pretty much any of the Puntos available at the moment on Auto Trader 

I don't really look too much at cars for sale now I've got mine, but I would say you might be able to get at the newest a 13 plate 595, maybe a high mileage 14 plate, assuming that's what you're after, and going off the fact my '14 Punto was 10 grand.

There's not really any Abarth that isn't decent, although I suppose that does depend on what you are after. You aren't going to get a 695 with that money I would say, but you can probably get any variant of the 595 for sure, and all the Puntos available (Grande and Evo) are going for less than 7 grand, they're obviously a bit bigger, personally have a better driving position and they normally have a little more grunt than a 595. There is also the exclusivity factor, there are less than 1000 Puntos on UK roads, compared to around 10k 595s and 695s. The tradeoff with that is that there is less stuff available to do with the Puntos when it comes to mods, and it is a bit more work too, whereas there are more modded 500s than you can shake a stick at.

Hope you do find a belter of a car, and welcome to the AOC!

Oh balls, never grabbed you Sunday to fill in the forms Colin, I'll PM you.

As jenniferlouise says, that's standard across all brands. Only if you go to high priced cars you might get a spare remote key.

I wouldn't call a Vauxhall Corsa a high priced car...

I think it's a bit random really as to who does and who doesn't give an extra remote key, probably depends on both the price of the key and the price of the vehicle. I bet Vauxhall replacements are pennies compared to other brands, which explains why I got 2.

I've had my APE Supersport for a couple of weeks now, 14 plate (the white one with the great big scorpion sticker on the bonnet, to be removed...) and I'm getting stuck into a couple of events over the next 2 months or so. I'll be getting it wrapped at some point, in the style of my sim-racing team! Below is a look at it now, and what I want it to be like eventually, obviously I'll make sure it fits a Punto rather than a Fiesta!

I'm in the Royal Air Force as an ICT Technician, almost 6 years in now! It's a decent job, and it's paid for a hell of a lot of stuff, trips away etc. My other love outside of actual cars is sim-racing, and I've spent something like £5k on my PC, a rig, seat, steering wheel, pedals, VR and more...