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Panda (Classic) Godiva -- the blue 750L (L is for "Low mileage")

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PIPPIN -- the blue 750L (L is for "Low mileage")

Well, having not "driven stick" for many, many years, picking up Pippin (the Panda formerly known as Godiva...) was one heckuvanadventure...! :eek:

It was fun, though! And I got him/her up to an indicated 70 mph, at one stage; but s/he cruises rather nicely between 60 and 65 mph. (It's a good job s/he doesn't have a rev counter...!) S/he also drove really well in heavy traffic in town... (it's the Shakespeare Birthday Weekend, here; and really sunny...). :D

Here s/he is, parked outside Black Cat Motors, in Stratford-upon-Avon: waiting to be MOT'd, serviced, and given a thorough once-over. (And I make no apologies for promoting them as a garage: they deliver sterling service -- which includes taking their customers all the way to pick up their new cars...! A big thank-you to John, the owner, therefore, for whizzing me up the A46 in his swish 4.2 Audi A8, earlier...! And for commenting that "It doesn't look like a twenty-three-year-old car, does it?") (y)











Thanks to everyone for their help and support -- especially to purple haze for bringing him/her to my attention...! :worship:

Watch this space...! :wave:

PS: Not a bad way to celebrate my 1,500th post to the Forum, eh...?! :cool:


2 August 2014
How Pippin looks now -- after a light fettling from VmanC... :slayer:

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I know, after the first Midlands Italia meet, that I now have a reputation for turning up to such things with a dirty car... -- but I did have a valid reason for doing so: having had a minor op on my neck, three days previously.... :eek:

Anyway: no such excuses with getting Pippin ready for the Chiltern Hills Rally, on Sunday... -- even though it's been threatening to rain, all day. At least if I turn up with the car covered in bits of the M40, you'll know that I tried my best.... :cool:



After applying all of the above, the various cloths I used now have a slight tinge of Azzurro Nautico about them.... :eek:



Anyhoo, here are the results.... (y)





So shiny...! :D

 
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homeward said:
I know, after the first Midlands Italia meet, that I now have a reputation for turning up to such things with a dirty car... -- but I did have a valid reason for doing so: having had a minor op on my neck, three days previously.... :eek:

Anyway: no such excuses with getting Pippin ready for the Chiltern Hills Rally, on Sunday... -- even though it's been threatening to rain, all day. At least if I turn up with the car covered in bits of the M40, you'll know that I tried my best.... :cool:



After applying all of the above, the various cloths I used now have a slight tinge of Azzurro Nautico about them.... :eek:



Anyhoo, here are the results.... (y)





So shiny...! :D

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No no no no no no no!!

Not allowed, that looks fantastic. Far too good in fact as I have 3 dirty Panda's to wash before Sunday & I'll never have time to get them anywhere near that :cry: Best I can manage is a quick scrub up - you will be banished to avoid showing us up :devil:

Really looks good though (y)
 
Great job, she's come up a treat!

I can tell from your choice of products that this is not your first valet job. (y)

You're going to show me up too as I don't have much time for cleaning either. :(
 
VmanC said:
Great job, she's come up a treat!

I can tell from your choice of products that this is not your first valet job. (y)

You're going to show me up too as I don't have much time for cleaning either. :(
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Ta...! I was inspired by Pinky's magic glow...! (y)

Just don't look too closely at the inside, though... -- I still haven't gotten around to stripping it out, and giving it a good going over.... One day.... :eek:

It's funny: but I've tried loads of different products over the years -- usually on the basis of price (i.e. cheap) -- but I always come back to Autoglym for the important stuff (and because I love the smell of that wax...)! In the long-run, it's probably actually better value for money, as well.... :cool:
 
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Didge3 said:
I always park next to dirty cars when possible. Makes mine look much cleaner. I can never get that ultra shiny finish. All I end up with is not dirty.
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I will have to teach you the ways of the Force, young Pa(n)dawan...! :D

Anyhoo -- as benny279 will tell you... -- this is why I have the Punto: it makes Pippin look even better...! :rolleyes:
 
Pippin the Reservoir Panda

I know it's only a little thing (thank you, matron...) -- but, hoping to keep Pippin as original as possible, it's really bugged me that, every time I opened the bonnet (using a yoga position known as crouching pill*ck, creaking spine... -- you open the driver's door fully: and with your left hand, pull the bonnet release; whilst simultaneously trying the pry open the side of the bonnet with your right hand... -- which is nigh impossible to do, when said "pill*ck" has waxed the car to within a micron of its life, poor thing...), the screen-wash reservoir was topped off with what looked like the top of a bottle of actual screen-wash: which neither fitted, nor looked pretty.... :cry:

Finally...! (y)



I'm now expecting someone to tell me that this particular variant only came with a 1985 45S, with left-hand drive, and optional Zauberflöte (Gesundheit!) -- although, if I remember correctly, that had the tube actually coming out of the top of the cap... -- but, hey, at least it looks a lot better (to me, anyway...). :eek:
 
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Didge3 said:
Mine opens fine first time with no extra hands needed :p
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Pytical.... :mad:

Seriously, though, I can't quite work out why mine doesn't spring up as it should. (Go to the back of the queue, Palio, for having such thoughts....) :nono:

I shall have to give it a good fettle, sometime... -- once I've waxed the interior, of course.... ;)
 
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homeward said:
Pytical.... :mad:

Seriously, though, I can't quite work out why mine doesn't spring up as it should. (Go to the back of the queue, Palio, for having such thoughts....) :nono:

I shall have to give it a good fettle, sometime... -- once I've waxed the interior, of course.... ;)
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As if!!

Anyway you need something beginning with V to make it spring up.......














Fortunately he will be at the show tomorrow, and can probably give you a hand, so to speak! :idea:
 
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