FIAT PANDA – SIMON GOLDSWORTHY
The Fiat Panda was meant to be a cheap-as-chips antidote to the Bentley Turbo R project we were running at the time on Classics World magazine. It was a low-mileage car with under 35,000 miles on the clock, but those had been London miles which can be tough. Still, with lockdown restrictions in place at the time and pages to be filled, for £1400 we were tempted to buy it sight unseen. After all, it had a fresh MoT, so what could possibly go wrong?
Well, enough to fill nine instalments in the magazine, that’s for sure! That fresh MoT must have been applied for by post, because we ended up overhauling and replacing much of the braking system, the suspension and the steering, while the tyres on the car were a total disgrace and utterly unsafe to be on the road. Perhaps the biggest disappointment though was that
