I have been after a MK1 panda for a while now to add to the collection and have to say a special thanks to Chris Watson from Newcastle (England) who had seen my restorations and he very kindly offered me his car.  It's a 1981 45 with only 26,350 on it from new.  We think it may be one of the oldest Pandas in the UK. I'll wait for someone to tell me different

13/01/07. My friend Alan from Cumbria offered to lift the car and trailer it to Stranrear This ment a 400 mile round trip for him and one hell of a gesture of which I am in his debt. However things didn't go to plan. My mate Jim and I were to go on the 12.20 HSS and meet up with Alan. I was then for taking him out for dinner (theres a great Indian in Stranrear)  as He had driven all that way, only stopping to feed his dogs. The idea was then to come back home on the 19.50 sailing. Unfortunately on route over we were told that due to bad weather the 19.50 would not be sailing. This ment we would have to transfere onto the 14.50 sailing, (the return of the boat we were on ). The booking clerk told us we would literally have 10 minutes to get from the boat to the car and back onto the boat again. We phoned Alan who parked at the boats off ramp and drove us to the car. We jumped in the car and had to fight our way through the traffic leaving the boat back round to the terminal to get back on. The gates were closed right behind us and once booked we had to drive like mad to get on the boat. The staff were waving us on like crazy as they were closing the boat up. Jim filmed us racing for the boat http://www.youtube.com/v/rAbOBsvK6Q8  So we seen Alan for about a minute after him going all that way and were on Scottish soil all off 12 minutes.

These are the pics Alan took when he lifted the car.

UM I think Alans dogs had a go at driving to, "You work the pedals and I'll steer"

And this is the car finally on the boat.

Now he's at his new home it was time to take a few photos of what needs done. 

Yes it does only have 26,355 miles on it from new.