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FuzzyPanda

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Panda's are mischievous. Look at 'em. Post some of the sillier things you've done in your Panda, and keep it clean. Hehe.

I'll start off...

I used to work at Oulton Park, drove down the same road every Saturday morning at 7 and usually the same on the Sunday. One weekend I was following a Vanquish down there, and he was obviously pretty boring so I overtook him. It sounds amazing, but he was only doing 30mph (in a 60) so it's nothing to gloat about. But I still overtook a Vanquish. Yay!

Continuez.
 
Well I drove from Belfast to Tipperary in my Panda. We stayed in Tipperary and travelled from there to Waterford on the south coast of Ireland. By the time we got back to Belfast it was a round trip of almost 600 miles. It didn't miss a beat and we enjoyed the break all the more as doing it in a Panda made it seem like more of an adventure. :)
 
Silliest thing I have done in a Panda is turn it over. Chasing an Audi TT was fun and driving from Ardarroch to Applecross in Scotland was scary. It climbs ftrom sea level to about 750m in about 5 miles. 3 miles as the crow flies. Girlfriend swearing the whole way up. And then you get to go back down to sea level......Highly recommended :D
 
There's nothing better than going south on the m3 to pompey and seeing the look on the driver of the bentley as I went past at 85ish in my 999clx fire. Boy was he miffed, cause he passed me later doing 90 ......... :) :)
 
Good stories here :)

I had a lot of fun in my Panda and did a few daft things.

Not long after I bought her, I went out to a nearby national park to take a few piccies. Anyway, I came across a dirt track with a road sign at the top. I didn't recognise the sign so decided that I'd carry on and look it up when I got back home. It was one of those 'watch out for low flying stunt riders on motorbikes' signs. (Seen here on the third row, second from the left). Anyway, I carried on but noticed how narrow the track had become, even in a Panda. It was only when I saw the stile ahead that I suspected something was wrong. As I later realised - and haven't forgotten since - it means 'no motorised vehicles allowed' because I was in fact driving down a footpath.

Then I took her on holiday to Norway when she was 11 years and 5 months old. She behaved perfectly and ran quite happily that far north.

And she drove from Lands End to John O'Groats and back again in a weekend, covering the John O' Groats to Lands End bit in 19 hours, only stopping for fuel. That return journey was over 850 miles in one day and she never missed a beat.

There's endless tales about going for gaps in traffic that a cyclist would think twice about going through.

And I reckon it's compulsory to toot, flash your lights and wave at classic Pandas so I also do so and confuse the hell out of other road users, but the other Panda driver and I are grinning inanely.

Oh, and I can't forget all the times I've gone out of my way to actively seek another Panda to park next to so that I can take a photo...
 
And the car jiving, I can't forget that! When your car says 'Dance' on the side, what else are you going to do when you're on the M5 on your own but dance? I confess to a bit of in car boogie-ing reaching it's peak with the YMCA. Probably the less said about that the better... ;)
 
Hope nobody thinks im a smartarse for posting more stories but Pandamanpauls story reminded me of trying to find a party in Edinburgh with a spanish navigator. His directions were a bit off and tended to come after we had passed a junction. I was finding it rather funny and my driving was becoming a bit eratic. At one point even my navigator pointed at the mirror and said it was not just for lookin at my face. It was dark which didnt help and at one point realised that only one wheel was on tarmac (we were on some path under the Royal Mount). My mate was helpless with laughter and laughed even more when i reversed up a street and took my wing mirror off. That would have been ok but i had earlier been pulled over for nearly having a VA and they pointed out nicely my tax was out of date. We still got to the party
 
Another from me. :)

On the way home from System of a Down in Manchester, the Panda had 3 in it (11, 16 and 17 stone) and a battered old Polo covered in racing parts manufacturers' stickers with 3 people in started having a go. It was pretty funny, a series of little, super slow races from one set of lights to the next. We both, also, hadn't the faintest idea where we were going. But it was hilarious fun. :D

On the way home from Chester today I had a, er, play with a new Fiesta, we were both coming off a roundabout (two lanes to exist) and he swiped right into the inside lane meaning I had to slam on. Good job the brakes are just a few weeks old, the old ones would have meant a pretty nasty scrape. I think the last thing people expect from a Panda is a bit of competition. :p

Anyway, exams are over now so some proper fun stuff should start happening. Scotland next week. :)
 
Oh, forgot about this one!

As you may not know, if we don't get our targets in work we're taken out the back to be battered with wet fish (it's the smell that gets me more than anything).... So, when the figures are bad (As)Bo gets parked outside the shop with this on to save the day and stop his owner comming to a salty end....

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Ok, I made the fish bit up but I'm sure you get the idea....

...and to top it off, we got more people asking about (As)Bo than the Broadband offer!

Anybody else got a panda that has to work for a living?

Jim
 
My Panda has been so boringly reliable, theres not many stories to tell, this ones my favourite.

Last year, I persueded a rather posh bird to go out with me, seeing as I had long hair at the tim and live in a slightly less than posh part of town, this was a minor miracle in itself, so anyway the friday night comes, and I'm bricking it, so I drove up to her house and me heart sank, in the driveway is a flipping massive 7-series BM, brand spanking new, I wanted the ground to swallow me up, arriving in a £250 motor when this thing would have cost 100 times that, so I picked her up, and we're driving down the road and she says "this is a great little car, it's cute"

Bingo, Panda 1, BM Nil!
 
Steve C said:
Jim, does he get paid?
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Na, but the more people who buy Talktalk the less chance there is of ending up in the scrap yard so I suppose it's Panda Blackmail!

He's floggin landlines this week instead of broadband and some in-breed who'd married his sister said that (As)Bo was the sh*ttest car in the car park.
Well that's what you get for speaking to the half wit sub humans from larne.......

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