Random Picture Thread Vers.4

Current & a '98. The cars are far too big imo

 

wow that is quite a difference, I didn't realise the F1 cars had grown so much

 

it's not often you stumble on some examples of endangered species, just caught these two pandas basking in the sunlight

 

I've had a bit of a soft spot for a Mk1 Panda ever since I owned a 4x4 example many years ago.
It was great until I could no longer find any sound metal to weld patches to.

 

Yes, they do become a patchwork quilt of metal after a while

 

Must Resist, Must Resist, Must Resist,
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/29716783...0VTP563lGFrCh7mDqFegfKsA==|tkp:Bk9SR-qyguy-ZQ

Although this would make be fantastic run-around:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38818191...0vPMGg99y8JGfNPVNdgWqXIQ==|tkp:Bk9SR-qyguy-ZQ

 

I had a mk1 Panda as my first car, I bloody loved it, it had the slide back cloth roof as well.

 

Oh, you mean the 'In Car Shower'.

 

It's funny you should mention this because one of the cars I've owned which unexpectedly wormed its way into my affections was a black Fiat Panda MK1, although it was a diesel. I bought it because it was £500, I was broke and I badly needed a car, any car, but to my great surprise it was a hoot to drive. Due to being in my twenties at the time, I drove it everywhere like I'd stolen it - I used to work in the Docklands and I can fondly recall going round the roundabout underneath Canary Wharf, tyres squealing, on only 3 wheels, on many an occasion.

Sadly the cambelt snapped on Commercial Road, just past Aldgate, and it went to the great scrapyard in the sky....

 

lovely, and fairly cheap. I prefer the two-wheel drive with the "Fire" engine 1000cc. My zoo has 4 Pandas and two Elefants so far.

 

Many years ago, I was returning from a brisk ride on my then wife’s Yamaha TZR125 (blowing out the gunk build-up) when a bloke in a Fiat Panda just drove into the side of me as I was going through junction. The impact was significant and I remember the feeling of both wheels of the TZR lifting off the tarmac and my right foot was crushed in the process. My foot aches every time I see an old Panda.

 

Ouch!

 

Battering ram dated to the First Punic War in 241 BC found off Sicily. Made of bronze.