There is a yellow car convoy on April the 1st (not a April's fool!) in support of a man whose yellow car has been vandalised because it "spoils the view of the lovely village".

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.u...s-vandalised/story-30131660-detail/story.html

Any yellow Pandas going?,I'll be going!.

Tomsk

I wonder if my orange one would be accepted? Sadly, I'm at a wedding in hull that day, but as I'm not far from Bibury, I'll make an effort to visit as frequently as I can. Parking along the main street should do it. (If there's space between the coaches full of Japanese tourists.)

Bit far for me. Hope he gets lots of support. Yellow is my favourite car colour.

I am not painting Pandatoni yellow just for a one off convoy and that's final.

He already looks like a Panda tha'ts been eating to much cake. If he was yellow he would just look like a mobile Panattoni altogether! That's why he's disguised in a deep blue.

i'd paint my house yellow if i was him....grow loads of Daffodills out side the house and wear yellow clothing everyday for a year just to **** em off in that village and get another yellow car :devil:

and i'm sure that that yellow is a standard corsa colour, so why write it off?
just buy a yellow bonnet from a car being scrapped or better still put a black bonnet on it

I think they put scratches on every panel, so there's lots to fix. Finding a bright yellow car irritating is understandable, although I think we need more yellow and brighter colours. But this vandalism seems the work of younger people, who arguably probably don't give a stuff about how the village looks.
I've taught quite a few village dwellers to drive. General concensus is they feel trapped, nothing to do, few buses, so bored. Getting their own transport is freedom. I guess this vandalism was done by bored teenagers, fired up by angry parents who kept moaning about the yellow car.
Bibury is just a small cotswold village, quaint cottages, but nothing really to see. Needs turning into a museum, or demolishing. (Crawly creatures a feature of every room?)

portland_bill said:

I guess this vandalism was done by bored teenagers, fired up by angry parents who kept moaning about the yellow car.

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From what I gather chap was well liked and well known and had lived there for many years, and had always owned quite brightly coloured cars. The complaints about the car where coming from tourists who felt it was spoiling their pictures.

I watched a program not long ago about this where residents there are virtually besieged every year by tourists who wonder about there gardens and will even let themselves in to people's houses if a door is left unlocked treating the place like some sort of museum.

I believe the consensus is that some tourist has taken offence to this car and decided it was there obligation to take action more interested in a pretty picture than the rights of others who live their.

I really hope they do get it repaired, or buy him a bigger brighter car

Nearest I've got is Guacamole Green, so not really yellow at all.

I'm a village dweller. Don't understand what caused it all though.

I'm sure somewhere sells postcards of Cotswold villages with no cars in shot.

I wouldn't dream of being so arrogant that I would expect rural folks to hide the evidence of their presence so that unimaginative city dwellers can take photographs and pretend they have visited an idyllic village that looks unchanged since Noah had a rowboat.
Nor would I expect Cities to ban ugly shop signs, tacky statues, annoying slogans and "interesting" buildings when I visit them.

On the other hand, damaging a pensioner's car because you don't like the colour is pretty moronic. Even bored village teenagers don't normally sink that low. At least they didn't before social media started running their lives...

Corsas are ugly in most colours, yellow is just a bit more noticeable.

Would have thought that local Vauxhall dealer would have stepped in and repainted it for free. And uprated the alarm to avoid it happening again.
Got to be worth it in publicity.

On the other hand, the people who run the tourist trips could pay him to put a car cover on it on certain days of the week... could be a nice supplement to pension, and it'd keep the yellow paint nice and bright for the other days.

My Bravo has been signed up since day one.

I may have a Cinquecento and Seicento Sporting as well by then.

AndyRKett said:

I really hope they do get it repaired, or buy him a bigger brighter car

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He has a boring grey Corsa now. He said he misses yellow but can not afford to take the risk any more. I imagine his insurance has skyrocketed.

Bloody tourists

Perhaps they were on a Dreadlock Holiday?

irc said:

Perhaps they were on a Dreadlock Holiday?

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"I don't like yellow... Oh no. I love it!"

Fantastic work by the people organizing this convoy.Meeting up at the Cotswolds wildlife park (100's of car parking spaces made available for the yellow cars) and free entry to the wildlife park for drivers (passengers only pay a discount group fee)!.The local parish council have agreed to the convoy,the police are aware and advising.


Tomsk

Now, if they could locate the culprit, and feed him to the lions at the wildlife park.

Been a few years since were there but at the time I was forced to take action.


I violently used foliage to partially block the van that was parked up. Luckily it was a wet September and before any buses arrived.

I've driven through it many times, never seen the need to stop! Its just a village, like lots of others around here.

portland_bill said:

I've driven through it many times, never seen the need to stop! Its just a village, like lots of others around here.

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Did you see the famous yellow Corsa?

JCarp16 said:

Did you see the famous yellow Corsa?

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No, mostly just coachloads of Japanese tourists, wandering about in the road with no regard to traffic.

portland_bill said:

No, mostly just coachloads of Japanese tourists, wandering about in the road with no regard to traffic.

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They don't sound like the paintwork scratching types... Unless yellow is an unlucky colour in Japan?