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Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:16 pm
by geoberni
Looks as though a Minor Panda is getting broken for spares.
Spotted these on ebay just now....
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Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 8:41 pm
by Bigrob
Good prices too. One hasn't gone missing recently has it?
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:59 pm
by irmscher
sounds very cheap
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 8:56 am
by ManyMinors
I don't think £40.00 is particularly cheap for a rusty door which needs a new bottom welding in.
Also, I don't think a "Panda" is being dismantled. The doors are from a car too early (and the wrong colour) to have been a genuine panda - and as all the seller has for sale is 3 rusty panels, it is probably more likely he is restoring his car and trying to sell off the rusty bits
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 11:13 am
by philthehill
Just
pandering to the needs of Minor owners.
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:38 pm
by ManyMinors
Haha
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:15 pm
by Bigrob
I must say I didn't look too closely.
Are they not the right colour? Wrong shade of white?
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm
by burnham28
When the Met police pandas left the factory they were painted Burmuda Blue and Police White what ever that is.
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:08 pm
by ManyMinors
No, I didn't mean that the doors were the wrong shade of white but that - if you look at the sanded down areas - the original colour seems to have been green? An original Panda car would have been Bermuda Blue all over I think. It wouldn't have started off a different colour
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:04 pm
by Bigrob
burnham28 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm
When the Met police pandas left the factory they were painted Burmuda Blue and Police White what ever that is.
I have heard police white is whatever white was spare? Haha
ManyMinors wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 6:08 pm
No, I didn't mean that the doors were the wrong shade of white but that - if you look at the sanded down areas - the original colour seems to have been green? An original Panda car would have been Bermuda Blue all over I think. It wouldn't have started off a different colour
Yep makes sense, mine is bermuda under the black, then white, then blue again at the bottom!
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:07 am
by ManyMinors
burnham28 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm
When the Met police pandas left the factory they were painted Burmuda Blue and Police White what ever that is.
For anyone interested, Police White was a defined colour. When I worked for a dealership it wasn't completely unknown for a Police vehicle to require a quick covert repair and we could order the correct colour(s). When the garage closed, I acquired quite a lot of reference books, paperwork etc and still have all the original BMC colour books and charts. Police White was BMC code WT. 2 and it was available as a touch-up can or in pint, 1/2 gallon or 1 gallon cans. The list price of 1pint of Police White was 13shillings and one penny in 1967
Some colours were more expensive than others. Reds tended to be the most expensive.
The BMC code for Bermuda Blue is BU. 40
Re: Panda getting reduced to spares??
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:17 am
by Bigrob
ManyMinors wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:07 am
burnham28 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:15 pm
When the Met police pandas left the factory they were painted Burmuda Blue and Police White what ever that is.
For anyone interested, Police White was a defined colour. When I worked for a dealership it wasn't completely unknown for a Police vehicle to require a quick covert repair and we could order the correct colour(s). When the garage closed, I acquired quite a lot of reference books, paperwork etc and still have all the original BMC colour books and charts. Police White was BMC code WT. 2 and it was available as a touch-up can or in pint, 1/2 gallon or 1 gallon cans. The list price of 1pint of Police White was 13shillings and one penny in 1967
Some colours were more expensive than others. Reds tended to be the most expensive.
The BMC code for Bermuda Blue is BU. 40
That's a very useful bit of information, thank you.