A scene just like this, but in Geneva in 1992 where I was vacationing with my then-girlfriend, tipped me towards 'someday' buying a Pagoda. In the Summer, also illegally parked next to a fashionable restaurant terrace, looking ever so cool.
7 years later I did get mine.
I wonder how many guys/gals this London spotting inspired to 'someday' get theirs.