Yesterday I used the Cinquecento to take a kingsized mattress to the tip. [/edit: I held on to this mattress for months in the belief it would save money when I wanted to furnish the spare room. I finally decided it was not worth waiting for a suitable sized bed, and threw it out. Today a kingsize bed came up on freecycle. Ho hum]This mattress was too big for any room in the house, requiring storage on the stairs. Having recently passed my futon along the Freecycle food chain, I wrassled the mattress to the lounge floor like a rodeo calf and roped it good. I bunged it in the back of the Cinq and took it to the tip.

A cinquecento, yesterdayI think the Cinq’s days are probably numbered now, but it really has impressed me with its capabilities. It’s big enough on the inside to take a mattress, a tricycle, a Washing Machine, the aforementioned futon, or a full complement of latin percussion instruments plus a passenger (though not all at once, silly). Yet it’s small enough on the outside to fit in the most obscure places.

When I finally do buy a real car, I will miss the little punk.