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- mat_fenwick
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Same here! Got back at just before 8 tonight......not a bad trip, but a LOT busier than coming down this morning! ( 2 hrs 40 mins down, exactly 3 hrs back.)
Thoroughly enjoyed the day, as expected.......got a nasty case of sunburn on my head and neck!
Picked up a few good bargains, including a brand-new front strut for £20!!
It was great to see all the "old faces" again, plus a few new ones that I've not met before ( Jonkw, David R., among others), and hopefully talked a couple of newbie BX owners into joining our merry bunch of reprobates!!
Look forward to seeing y'all at Stratford in 5 weeks.
Dave
Thoroughly enjoyed the day, as expected.......got a nasty case of sunburn on my head and neck!
Picked up a few good bargains, including a brand-new front strut for £20!!
It was great to see all the "old faces" again, plus a few new ones that I've not met before ( Jonkw, David R., among others), and hopefully talked a couple of newbie BX owners into joining our merry bunch of reprobates!!
Look forward to seeing y'all at Stratford in 5 weeks.
Dave
- stuart_hedges
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Also back home,after picking up works van and loading it for morning, back to reality!!how i hate monday mornings!!
A reg BX performed superbly,did'nt miss a beat in some 220 miles,it may be basic,but its a real pleasure to drive!
convoyed back with mark evans in his BX, had the "sounding of horns" through the Hatfield tunnel! had to be done!!
Great to meet up with you all, starting to put names to faces now!!
Who's going to Rome next month?
chris
A reg BX performed superbly,did'nt miss a beat in some 220 miles,it may be basic,but its a real pleasure to drive!
convoyed back with mark evans in his BX, had the "sounding of horns" through the Hatfield tunnel! had to be done!!
Great to meet up with you all, starting to put names to faces now!!
Who's going to Rome next month?
chris
GSA X1,GSA estate, GSA PALLAS C-matic,Simca 1100,Renault 16TX auto, yellow Visa super E, wanted mk1 bx!
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- stuart_hedges
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Aye, Graeme!stuart_hedges wrote:I think so too. In fact I think you should swap your CX for my BX!docchevron1472 wrote:I think you should at once get a BX, you seem like BX guy material!
A BX turbo-D would make much more sense for eating up all those M6 miles coming down from Glasgae!
As for further "meets", there are a couple of 2CVGB meets not that far from you (Silloth nr. Carlisle springs to mind) later this summer, and I believe the Scottish section of the CCC has a meet around Hawick or Jedburgh way coming up?
Great to meet you, and glad to hear you made it back OK!
Cheers
Dave (mountainmanUK)
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A very few photos can be found here, but I'm afraid you're going to have to wait for the rest. I accidentally bought a black-and-white film for the SLR and it will take Boots 12 days to get them developed for me
- Aerodynamica
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I have had a BX!! it was my first ever Cit, I was on TV with it pulling a 'fast one' on 'Deals on wheels' that was funny.
remember that CX only cost £700, the rest is all cheap bits off ebay and loads of manual labour!
But I'm definately after a BX, maybe a deez but I rekon the ideal BX for me is a Mk 1 16(T)RS, 19 GT running on, you guessed it!, LPG gas - sweet. I'm still interested in one of Mr Salter's old deezelz but no cash unless I can get the Xantia sold to some nutter who'd like a non turbo auto. but with only 28K on the clock! It probably couldn't manage any more than 28K in 13 years with that 'box 'n block combo!
I knew you were going to say that Hedges! I think you were getting the same feelings on Saturday that I did when I first got the thing "O, it's really quite nice in here"I think so too. In fact I think you should swap your CX for my BX!
remember that CX only cost £700, the rest is all cheap bits off ebay and loads of manual labour!
But I'm definately after a BX, maybe a deez but I rekon the ideal BX for me is a Mk 1 16(T)RS, 19 GT running on, you guessed it!, LPG gas - sweet. I'm still interested in one of Mr Salter's old deezelz but no cash unless I can get the Xantia sold to some nutter who'd like a non turbo auto. but with only 28K on the clock! It probably couldn't manage any more than 28K in 13 years with that 'box 'n block combo!
Graeme M
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2CV6 dolly (SORNed)
Mk1 Xantia 1.9TD SX
'c'est hydropneumatique'
CX 2400 Pallas LPG
2CV6 dolly (SORNed)
Mk1 Xantia 1.9TD SX
'c'est hydropneumatique'
- stuart_hedges
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My old car in a nicer colour with less rust and more LPG? Nope, I couldn't resist that at all. I doubt Aerodynamica will be putting it up for sale any time soon but I'll be first in the queue if he does!DavidRutherford wrote:*Points at Stu*stuart_hedges wrote:I think so too. In fact I think you should swap your CX for my BX!
Told you you couldn't resist.