I'm just back from Como last week and was surprised at how many classic Pandas I saw in daily use. I reckon I must have seen over 150 in a week, many of them 4wd and none obviously rusty. Even the local public authorities still had quite a number of basic ones in use.

I reckon the most common modern cars were the new Panda, followed by the 500, so the local dealers seem to be doing a good job.

I Googled Pandas for sale in Como and came up with quite a few cars with prices up to €4500, not cheap but probably a very good at that.

Surprisingly I saw very few a few miles away in Bergamo or Lake Garda. Last year in Bologna there were few old Fiats of any description but possibly because of being battered to death by the crazy impact parking in that city.

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In Italy, if you go around mountains & hills, you find a lot of Classic Pandas.

They are good on snow and you find tons of spare pieces available everywhere.

Nowadays the Panda Classic is considered a "cool" car in Italy, for this reason the prices are constantly growing up.

If you want an "italian" Panda 4x4 for a very low price, buy an Y10 4wd.
You have the same thing for a lot less.

Ask Aquamarine

The Classis Panda was still in production up until 2003, though it wasn't widely available outside Italy after the Cinquecento was launched, so there's still quite a lot of good examples knocking around Italy.

My last couple of trips to Italy has seen my Mrs drag me away from an assortment of late, classic Panda 4x4's that I'd found locally for sale, as well as a few later diesel powered 4x4 Climbing's and little diesel 4x4 Active Vans that I think were part of the ANAS fleet (still with blue flashing lights).

I can't read or speak Italian very well, but I do seem to be able to translate a car ad!

https://www.autoscout24.com/
There was a nice 2001, dark blue 1.1ie 4x4 on here I had my eye on.

One of the things that put me off buying one and driving it back is the hassle over number plates and reg docs, sellers are required to de register the car when they sell it, that means the plates get removed and not being a resident, you can't register it your name and get a new number.

I hear some sellers will trust overseas buyers to drive it home and send the plates and original registration docs back in the post when they get back home, though this will obviously limit your choices.