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I had forgotten about the arborella, excellent video. @RC0 are you still using your arborella or the arb trolley? Our trolley still comes out regularly and is a god send on the right job, he is called Frank (en stein). 
It has had no repairs apart from a couple of r clips on the wheels and the little knuckle protection bar fell off years ago never to be repaired.

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Both Sisley, worth not a lot when I bought them in the 1990s but becoming a collector’s car now!
Bloody hell, I had a panda in the early 90's. It was only 2wd with the900cc fire engine. Loved that car, brilliant in snow, cross fields, it would go anywhere. Got rid after 3 years though as the thing wouldn't start in the wet, changed everything, but still wouldn't start on a morning if it had been raining.
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7 hours ago, harvey b davison said:
11 hours ago, Billhook said:
Both Sisley, worth not a lot when I bought them in the 1990s but becoming a collector’s car now!

Bloody hell, I had a panda in the early 90's. It was only 2wd with the900cc fire engine. Loved that car, brilliant in snow, cross fields, it would go anywhere. Got rid after 3 years though as the thing wouldn't start in the wet, changed everything, but still wouldn't start on a morning if it had been raining.

I bought a brand new Panda 4x4 white in 1986 when they just brought out the FIRE engine version.  £5000, really bought as a replacement for the farm Ford Escort Van which was the same price but had limited vision pulling out of our gateways and was hopeless off road.

I had a set of Greens gang mowers that I used to pull with a Little Grey Fergie, which was sometimes cold and exposed in bad weather and I wondered if the little Panda could cope.  It did easily.  I thought that something must break on it due to this abuse and it was such a luxury to mow like this that I could not go back to the tractor.

I had a heater, wipers, headlights for night work, radio stereo and best of all when I had friends to stay I would ask them if they wanted to mow the lawns with me.  The answer was obviously "no way" but I enticed them with a can of beer and the next time they came they asked if they could mow the lawns for me!  A win win situation!

So these Pandas kept coming up for sale in the local paper, not macho enough for men and too complicated for women so they were going for between £50 and£150 so I kept buying them since we have a spare barn.

When my parents were alive they had one each for going around the farm. They loved them as they were a bit higher and easy for them to enter and depart and simple to use.

A bloke in the village had a Volvo XC70 which had failed its MOT because the instrument panel had packed up.  The cost of replacing everything was well over£1000 so he was about to scrap it but let me have it for £250.  Diesel, auto, aircon, 4x4, electric seats, power steering.  I bought another set of Greens for it for the farmyard area so I now have about four acres to mow incomplete comfort in about an hour.  The way the grass has been growing recently it has been a godsend

 

 

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19 minutes ago, Billhook said:

I bought a brand new Panda 4x4 white in 1986 when they just brought out the FIRE engine version.  £5000, really bought as a replacement for the farm Ford Escort Van which was the same price but had limited vision pulling out of our gateways and was hopeless off road.

I had a set of Greens gang mowers that I used to pull with a Little Grey Fergie, which was sometimes cold and exposed in bad weather and I wondered if the little Panda could cope.  It did easily.  I thought that something must break on it due to this abuse and it was such a luxury to mow like this that I could not go back to the tractor.

I had a heater, wipers, headlights for night work, radio stereo and best of all when I had friends to stay I would ask them if they wanted to mow the lawns with me.  The answer was obviously "no way" but I enticed them with a can of beer and the next time they came they asked if they could mow the lawns for me!  A win win situation!

So these Pandas kept coming up for sale in the local paper, not macho enough for men and too complicated for women so they were going for between £50 and£150 so I kept buying them since we have a spare barn.

When my parents were alive they had one each for going around the farm. They loved them as they were a bit higher and easy for them to enter and depart and simple to use.

A bloke in the village had a Volvo XC70 which had failed its MOT because the instrument panel had packed up.  The cost of replacing everything was well over£1000 so he was about to scrap it but let me have it for £250.  Diesel, auto, aircon, 4x4, electric seats, power steering.  I bought another set of Greens for it for the farmyard area so I now have about four acres to mow incomplete comfort in about an hour.  The way the grass has been growing recently it has been a godsend

 

 

 

If it wasn't for the bloody trees everywhere it would take half the time!    Cut the bloody things down,  who planted them anyway ?   Oh yes I think I did........

 

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