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A small sporty Panda

Our main source for project cars is British Car Auctions. The cars usually have problems (we like problems) and they can be bought via bank transfer and come HPI clear. However, our latest project car came from a different source.

I made mention when we started our Mercedes-Benz SLK project (May 2022

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