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homeward said:
It's so close to me that I'm tempted to have a look.... :bang:
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I said I wasn't going to buy a Panda, this year (for all sorts of reasons); and that it would have to be a 4x4 or Selecta... -- but Mrs homeward is quite keen on this; and the homewardette is about to start learning to drive... -- so it looks like this may be her eighteenth birthday present...! :eek:

We'll see what it looks like in the flesh, though, first... -- unless someone else beats me to it...! :eek:

PS: Three FIATs in one year...!? I must be losing it (or turning into VmanC...). :nutter:
 
homeward said:
I said I wasn't going to buy a Panda, this year (for all sorts of reasons); and that it would have to be a 4x4 or Selecta... -- but Mrs homeward is quite keen on this; and the homewardette is about to start learning to drive... -- so it looks like this may be her eighteenth birthday present...! :eek:

We'll see what it looks like in the flesh, though, first... -- unless someone else beats me to it...! :eek:

PS: Three FIATs in one year...!? I must be losing it (or turning into VmanC...). :nutter:
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Needs to be into 3 figures with a door like that though, and with 12 months MOT as a min I'd have said.
 
Well, I am now officially certifiable.... :nutter:

Yup. This is now mine... -- and I shall be collecting it sometime in the next fortnight. :D

As I told blinkelephant, VmanC and Palio, earlier: the car is just about perfect (especially considering it's the same age as my son...!). The interior is spotless; and there is just a touch of surface rust on the driver's door and the back of the driver's side roof rail (which I shall obviously be asking for advice on...). It's done less than 25,000 miles; drives wonderfully (I'd forgotten how peppy the 750's engine sounds and feels); all the electrics work; and it even blows hot air into the cabin after a couple of miles from cold (and standing for seven hours...). It looks and feels like it's been really loved, too; and actually feels better bolted together than my Punto...! (Although getting used to a manual choke again will be fun...!) (y)

Saying all that, it was actually the hub caps and speaker pod that sold it...! (I also have a feeling that the parcel shelf may be of interest to a certain, er, oriental Panda enthusiast....) ;)

The guy selling it is about to turn 25; and has built up a little bit of NCB in the cheap-as-chips-to-insure Panda -- and is in the process of buying a three-litre Capri (now that he can afford the insurance)! Which is why he's selling the Panda. I actually met him in the Aston Martin employee car park: where he works on the telemetry team for new models...! Swish. :worship:

He's accepted less than the asking price -- although I shall be MOT'ing it: as I will then be aware of anything that needs doing... -- although, after half-an-hour with it, I was struggling to come up with anything apart from the rust spots (which it obviously won't fail an MOT on...). It's undersealed: and -- as far as I could see -- is pretty clean underneath.... :cool:

It will therefore make the perfect 18th birthday present for the homewardette: as she is about to start learning to drive; loves Pandas (although wants a pink one...!); and this will hopefully give her the encouragement to stop using me and her mum as taxi drivers (to get to work, etc.) -- all without it being too capable of breaking the National Speed Limit (although the acceleration was so much better than I remembered...)! All I need now is a very big ribbon...! :D



PS: Any ideas for names? The registration doesn't lend itself to anything obvious.... :confused:

PPS: I believe Mk2 Pandas are worth more as a pair (as they say on all the best antiques programmes...) -- so watch this space...! :rolleyes:

PPPS: Huge thanks must go to Palio, for a big dose of common sense; and to purple haze, for drawing my attention to this.... Does this now make me a bona fide member of the very bestest section of the Forum...?! ;)
 
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Well done - looks like a really good buy for a first car. (y)

:ROFLMAO: I love the way people start hanging around the Classic Panda section, start mentioning Panda's in posts, see one at a meet, start dribbling, mention Panda's some more, explain how they can't have a Panda, then go and buy one (or several ;) )!!! :D

P.S. common sense, more like insanity..... :)
 
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Palio said:
I love the way people start hanging around the Classic Panda section, start mentioning Panda's in posts, see one at a meet, start dribbling, mention Panda's some more, explain how they can't have a Panda, then go and buy one (or several ;) )!!! :D
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We should have this as a banner: welcoming (or warning) people, as they enter this section...! :D

PS: My love for these critters started when I was loaned a 4x4, in the late eighties, to tour the Lake District in. I was hooked, smitten, and driven with lust, from that moment on...! Ahhhh
 
Palio said:
Well done - looks like a really good buy for a first car. (y)

:ROFLMAO: I love the way people start hanging around the Classic Panda section, start mentioning Panda's in posts, see one at a meet, start dribbling, mention Panda's some more, explain how they can't have a Panda, then go and buy one (or several ;) )!!! :D

P.S. common sense, more like insanity..... :)
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Don't know what you're talking about :nutter:






:eek:
 
Most Easterly Pandas said:
Nice one. Glad it's gone to a forum member :D
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Thanks...! (y)

Most Easterly Pandas said:
I forget, are you coming to Panda camp?
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Probably not, I'm afraid.... :cry:

Most Easterly Pandas said:
I'm sure your daughter will love it as her first car, I know I loved my 750L as my first car, so much so we've still got it 12.5 years after purchase / 6.5 years after passing me test. :)
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These are the sorts of tales I love to hear...! I'll be immensely pleased if this is still parked outside in 6.5 years; and very old, if it's there in 12.5...! :)
 
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