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My valver has leather, but in all honesty it would be better with Monza seats.
But it does look very cool!
Although it needs restitching. It was cheaply done from the outset, and I suspect algerian cows were used....
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hi you have a nice garage presume a nice woodburner as well??
hi i am rob in liverpool 1989 bx 17 dtr turbo
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Woodburners FTW.

You need something like I have, it'll melt ally!
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Nah, we don't have a woodburner ...yet. :P

We want one and we had the chance of buying a LOT of wood for only ~100GBP. There's about 4 times the amount of what's in the garage stacked behind the house. The downside was that it came in big 1-meter pieces and we had to cut and chop it ourselves :? That was exhausting!
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1989 16 Valve
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- FDV overhaul kit (95.669.034)
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docchevron1472 wrote:Woodburners FTW.

You need something like I have, it'll melt ally!
Made one out of an old Propane gas bottle once, looked a bit like a squat letter box - it used to glow cherry red. Its living in my mates joinery workshop these days as Jo wanted a Chimchimenyea thing for the garden instead. :roll:
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Post by DLM »

The first thing I did on the BX after I bought it was fixing the sunroof, which isn't exactly essential to run the car...
But it does help if it's leaking... though they were of course all designed to leak that way into the internal guttering and away down the drain tubes. They're nice big sunroofs but they do have a tendency to corrode into nothingness internally. I've looked over as couple of BXs with "jammed" sunroofs where some nice steady pressure with the hand-crank worked wonders on the "stiction". Some of them were even mine.
Back on two wheels and pedal power for the moment.
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