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Panda (Classic) Michiel's car fleet...

Introduction

As a reader at this forum I decided to create my own topic, just to show you which cars are driving around oversea, in the Netherlands.

During the years I did have serveral Panda-like cars, and I'll show them over here :)

back in 2007 I bought this Panda 34. After one year I swapped it for a mk3 Ford Escort, but sadly that car's automatic box died soon after. After a Ford Orion and a Citroën LNA 11RE I decided to buy the Panda back from the new owner, and at that time I kept it 'till the end of 2013.

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In Italy:
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Halfway through I bought a 2000 Panda 900, which I restored and sold on:
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Sadly it did not survive, as it is scrapped nowadays :(

Next in the collection became another Panda. It was once white, but during the recordings of ,,De Heinken Ontvoering" in which my Panda starred, they needed a stunt double. So they bought a white Panda and sprayed it red.

I had some fun with it in 2011, sold it, and this Panda returned later to the nest, to be scrapped, as it was rusted completely...
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in the Pyrenees

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Later on I bought a 1987 Seat Marbella, which I still own.
A rare exemple, with an optional catalist converter, a spoiler at the back and a unique striping. It does only have 48.000 km's on it yet.

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Recently I've bought the one and only Seat Trans in the Netherlands, which is actually a Seat Panda Van, like the Seat Terra. But with differences. It does have a 45hp engine, which I converted to electronic injection. It is in use as a small camper van (like the Danbury's conversion)
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and the last car I bought is this white one: a 1994 Panda 750S Selecta Italia '90.
As you see, it's an 1100cc selecta, in Super-trim, with the Italia '90 specs. I already have the original striping waiting to be sticked on.
After that, I'm going to sell it, so if someone's interested ;) (it still does have a Belgian registration)

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Next to the Panda-gang I do have a bubblecar and a 1977 Citroën Dyane. So actually I do have too many cars :devil:
Nice Pandas! I really want to get one of those spoilers!! Annoyingly when I was at school I saw a panda with one on in a scrap yard and didn't buy it. I don't think I owned my Panda at that point so didn't occur to me..also it was in very poor condition...probably salvageable though.

Anyway will keep my eyes peeled for another :eek:
 
Some lovely cars there - the Panda 34 has to be the cream of the crop, though the SEAT van is a pretty car.

I do prefer the more honest older vehicles to the usual exotica.

Suggestions?

Citroen Ami Super with the 1015cc flat-four engine
Citroen Visa Special/Club with the 700cc flat-twin
Lada Riva Combi
DAF 66
SEAT 600D
FIAT 126 DeVille
SEAT 127 4-door
Renault 6 & 15
Peugeot 404

Anymore for anymore?
 
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Never saw the spoiler before, I do remember that it does have a Richard Grant stamp on it somewhere. It was sold with the car originally, as a part of the eco-pack that Seat introduced during the first days of 1987...

The Italia '90 is also a rare thing. Especially with the CVT box in it :)
Because it isn't registered yet I'm not allowed to drive it. When it's finished (with the original striping on it) I hope to register it somewhere in may. Or to sell it to someone who lives abroad, in another country. Because I do have the original Belgian documents with it :)
 

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This afternoon I've visited the MOT-station.
The Trans has been given a new MOT (with compliments for it's condition) , so I can travel around again until march the 6th 2016 :)
 
And there she is. Polished and with striping. :D
 

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Well, I did made them myself, but actually it's a bit too much. All the attention goes straight to the wheel trims.

So I decided to use the wheel trims that came with the Dutch version of the Italia '90
 
It was about time that I was going to post an update in here.

Not much has changed, although the Italia '90 is sold earlier this year.

Today the Fiat Panda Club Nederland held their annual Panda Day, which is something like a parts selling and car inspection day. All kinds of Panda's arrived: from 1982 to 2015.
on the pictures:
My 1987 Seat Trans, a 1986 Panda 45CL, a 1986 Panda 34 Shopping (originally with fixed backrests on the front seats), a 1984 Panda 45 Diesel, a 1982 Panda 45 and a 1985 Panda 34.

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Last december I bought something new....
A project!

Now I'm trying to find an original brown/beige rear seat, but unfortunately it is nowhere to be found...
 

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