Actor Tom Hanks posed for photos next to some old tiny cars while filming in Hungary, tweeted them, and now some Polish people are trying to ship him a car.
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Picked up today by the AFP via Yahoo News, but seemingly reported on as far back as November by FAKT24.pl, a movement to raise money to buy a Fiat 126p, restore it, and then ship it to Tom Hanks in the U.S. is well under way.
The heart of the movement is a woman named Monika Jaskolska, who came up with the idea after seeing photos of Hanks enjoying multiple tiny old European cars.
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From AFP:
Monika Jaskolska, a 42-year-old mother who lives in Bielsko-Biala — the southern Polish town where Italian carmaker Fiat produced over three million “Maluchs” between 1971 to 2000 — dreamt up the idea to send Hanks one of them as a gift.
She managed to raise around $2,150 over Facebook, but the shop working on the car and the transport company bringing it to America apparently waved costs so the money could go to a local hospital instead, according to FAKT24.pl.
If the video in this other article from Sunday is anything to go by, the actual car may be teal-blue and covered in stickers. It’s currently unclear when the car is actually going to be delivered, or if Tom Hanks has any idea it’s coming.
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Nonetheless, congrats Hanx. Let us know when you get it. Our own Jason Torchinsky is foaming at the mouth.
These little things are amazing
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