Panda getting reduced to spares??

[geoberni]

Looks as though a Minor Panda is getting broken for spares.
Spotted these on ebay just now....

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[Bigrob]

Good prices too. One hasn't gone missing recently has it?

[irmscher]

sounds very cheap

[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

[philthehill]

Just pandering to the needs of Minor owners.

[ManyMinors]

Haha

[Bigrob]

I must say I didn't look too closely.

Are they not the right colour? Wrong shade of white?

[burnham28]

When the Met police pandas left the factory they were painted Burmuda Blue and Police White what ever that is.

[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

[Bigrob]

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

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!

[ManyMinors]

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

[Bigrob]

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.