aussiepanda said:

I bought my Panda a stablemate

56 years old and she looks it Should be great fun though.

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You just luv punishment don't ya!

aussiepanda said:

I bought my Panda a stablemate



56 years old and she looks it Should be great fun though.

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I had 2 of those, both in that colour too.
Both 2 doors though. Scrapped the first one as it turned into a flintstone car in that you could push it through the floor holes!

Sold the second as didn't have time to keep on top of it.

Ace cars!

My sister's first car was a Morry Minor. She'd seen it in the paper. She, Dad and Grandpa went out to look at it. They dug through all their pockets, collected every coin and note they could, the buyer just laughed and accepted the total

It used to break a clutch rod regularly. Dad just dug a quarter inch bolt out of his tin of bits, bent it 'just right' and installed it until next time it broke - he and I got very good at driving it with no clutch. My uncle eventually bought that car and used 'correct' parts... and had far more trouble than we ever did.

After she'd run out of fuel a few times, he bought a tin, made up a special spout for it, filled it with petrol and put it in the boot. One night, she phoned up: "Dad, I've run out of fuel". Dad: "Use the tin". My sister: "It's empty too" And the best reply: "I can't undo the lid". Then there was the morning she drove it over a drain cover... which collapsed and dropped a front wheel into the sump. Dad and I just grabbed the front wheel arch and lifted it out. Yeah, my lil' sis taught me to love Morries.

My best mate in Sydney, back in the eighties, owned one. We used to drive up into the Blue Mountains at night and monster the sports car drivers He had no fear, refused to lift off, and knew how well the Morry held the road. I was simply terrified :worship:

My plan is to do what's needed to keep her on the road, what's needed to do her up, and when finances (and sanity) permit, hot her up to make a great little road car. When the Panda finally goes the way of all modern cars, the Morry will probably be my last car... which is scary seeing I'm intending to drive the Panda until she's very very disreputable

The really scary part is that I've now got a Panda and a Morris Minor, both of which could be classed as 'girlie cars'. Does this mean I have to start wearing tighter fitting jeans

leroya500 said:

You just luv punishment don't ya!

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Whip me mamma, whip me

Actually, I love the fact that I can work on these cars, unlike that stupid Panda.

One thing I noticed while driving around today is that if you want to be 'noticed' on the roads, drive a Morry. I've never been stared at, waved at, honked at or generally approved at as much as I was today in this beaten up old Morris Minor. I'd like to imagine I've finally achieved credibility... I'm delusional aren't I, it's the car, it's all about the car. Funny how you don't need something with noise, colours or muscles isn't it, just old and cute.

aussiepanda said:

Whip me mamma, whip me

Actually, I love the fact that I can work on these cars, unlike that stupid Panda.

One thing I noticed while driving around today is that if you want to be 'noticed' on the roads, drive a Morry. I've never been stared at, waved at, honked at or generally approved at as much as I was today in this beaten up old Morris Minor. I'd like to imagine I've finally achieved credibility... I'm delusional aren't I, it's the car, it's all about the car. Funny how you don't need something with noise, colours or muscles isn't it, just old and cute.

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Stupid panda!!!:bang: get thee off the forum!

Took my girlfriend and the midget up a hill.

I'm very impressed with the wee thing so far. The trip included a fair stretch of some pretty corrugated untarred road. Nothing fell off. Yet. It shot along the highway at legal speed + and still manages to have loads of fuel left. To clarify, my history includes a 3l BMW. Lots of power, always, but gosh it drank like a sailor.


1.2 - are you mad?

Picked it up new today and went for a drive with the family and a pub lunch. Loving the twinair 'roar'

The Pretender said:

I bought a second set Barchetta wheels.
Not decided what to do with them.

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I still reckon they'd look better on a Barchetta. But then I'm a fully paid-up member of the Barchetta Protection League. Barchettas are more endangered than Pandas. They need our love and care.

aussiepanda said:

I bought my Panda a stablemate

56 years old and she looks it Should be great fun though.

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Drove the van version back when I were a lad, the 0-30 time because of the gearing and empty was quite impressive for the day, however loaded and faced with a corner was pretty hairy

When I first met my missus, she had a Riley 1.5, which was built on a Moggy chassis but with a slightly larger body, maroon leather armchairs, walnut dash and ... the most important bit, a twin-carb SU 1.5cc motor. Now that car was a pocket-rocket compared to a Moggy (they were popular on the rally scene for a while), but it was a real handful in the wet! Sadly it disintegrated from the ground up, and she traded it in for ... our first Panda!

gar074 said:

When I first met my missus, she had a Riley 1.5, which was built on a Moggy chassis but with a slightly larger body, maroon leather armchairs, walnut dash and ... the most important bit, a twin-carb SU 1.5cc motor. Now that car was a pocket-rocket compared to a Moggy (they were popular on the rally scene for a while), but it was a real handful in the wet! Sadly it disintegrated from the ground up, and she traded it in for ... our first Panda!

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Twin SU's - the sound of my youth! 1963 998 Cooper, twin HS2's, LCB, 12G295 cylinder head, HiLo Suspension and negative camber front arms/rear plates. If only I'd kept it....

Very nice car Ringa, had a cooper back when I lived in Aberdeen, nothing was more than ten minutes away.. Driving like a maniac and, you could park most anywhere within a few steps of your destination, I do hanker a bit for those days.

gar074 said:

Sadly it disintegrated from the ground up, and she traded it in for ... our first Panda!

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Which promptly disintegrated from the ground up :devil:

aussiepanda said:

Which promptly disintegrated from the ground up :devil:

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That just about sums it up! The bottoms of the doors and the tailgate were looking decidedly ropey when we chopped it in for ... another Panda!

I think it was Einstein who said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result...

gar074 said:

I think it was Einstein who said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result...

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He was a German and a physicist so he'd know all about that
Love the pictures you see of him riding his bike, he's like a big kid.

well its happened patsy the 2012 panda has gone the fiat i have now got its big and goes like a bat out of hell its a 1.3 multijet dobio

Went to the Viva Zeelanda 2016 meeting and giro that started in the village I live in.
Loads of nice cars from all ages. Lots of Abarth 500's and some Panda's. Mine was the only 312 model.
Sadly no Lamborghini's or Ferrari's this year.

Some more pictures from Viva Zeelanda 2016.
All in all a nice gathering of cars (about 130). Weather was great to.

TheR said:

Went to the Viva Zeelanda 2016 meeting and giro that started in the village I live in.
Loads of nice cars from all ages. Lots of Abarth 500's and some Panda's. Mine was the only 312 model.
Sadly no Lamborghini's or Ferrari's this year.

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Considered to go, but didn't. (192 Km drive to get there)

The wheels really work on the Panda, looks very cool with black and some Sunlight.
But i would still have changed the rear lights.

Close-up.

Some nice photos there. Must've been a fun event