1.9 TGD H plater - tidy.
And a rather disturbing picture on a matchbox with the legend "Matches Kill Children"
What would I do without the fuzzy picture quality off my camera phone?
Today
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DLM
- Our Trim Guru
- Posts: 1624
- Joined: Mon May 16, 2005 6:41 pm
- Location: Gosport, Hampshire, UK
- My Cars: 90s/00s - lots of BX hatches/estates 16/19i/17td/19d
2020s - A shinier red TZD estate has replaced scruffy 19TXD "Red Shed". - x 13
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Ians very tidy H plate TZD (Preston) - now if only I can convince him to join in with BXClub....
Ian writes (in an email following a Flyering!)
Why a BX? Back in 1991 I got a job as a rep for a record company, having passed my driving test a few weeks earlier. The company car was a red BX19 TGD estate. To say it was a departure from the Rover 200 and Mk 2 escort that I'd done my lessons and test in is a huge understatement. The outgoing rep showed me the ropes during my first week on the job. This included showing me how to raise the suspension on the approach to the pair of hump back bridges on the A6 at Garstang in order to use them as launch pads for jumps!
The firm I worked for went bust a year or so later, but I soon found work with other company cars. After the magic carpet ride, the gigantic torque and the easy on the eye modern European aesthetics, the other cars simply felt like anonymous boxes. I vowed to get a BX (then a DS then an SM) of my own one-day.
After quitting full time work last year to go into education I got that opportunity. I can't however claim to be particularly mechanically minded. A decade and a half of main dealer servicing of fleet cars has seen to that. Nor do I claim to be a petrol head. Most cars leave me cold. I do however love "real" Citroens and don't accept that a car as distinctive as a BX is just a Peugeot 405 with hydraulics.
EDIT - 16/6/05 Ian has emailed me today with a little update - here is a small extract:
Of course I'll join the BX club. I've still got my
plate full at college for the next week or so though. Funnily enough,
just after your previous email, on came the "yellow lamp of death". I
nearly shat myself. Coolant was spewing from the radiator filler cap and dripping from underneath the engine. Eldon St. Garage sorted it all out. They fitted a new water pipe and radiator pipe and flushed the system out.
Thankfully no lasting damage had been done. Memo to self: GET
TEMPERATURE GAUGE
Good luck with the college course Ian - we look forward to hearing more from you.
Ian writes (in an email following a Flyering!)
Why a BX? Back in 1991 I got a job as a rep for a record company, having passed my driving test a few weeks earlier. The company car was a red BX19 TGD estate. To say it was a departure from the Rover 200 and Mk 2 escort that I'd done my lessons and test in is a huge understatement. The outgoing rep showed me the ropes during my first week on the job. This included showing me how to raise the suspension on the approach to the pair of hump back bridges on the A6 at Garstang in order to use them as launch pads for jumps!
The firm I worked for went bust a year or so later, but I soon found work with other company cars. After the magic carpet ride, the gigantic torque and the easy on the eye modern European aesthetics, the other cars simply felt like anonymous boxes. I vowed to get a BX (then a DS then an SM) of my own one-day.
After quitting full time work last year to go into education I got that opportunity. I can't however claim to be particularly mechanically minded. A decade and a half of main dealer servicing of fleet cars has seen to that. Nor do I claim to be a petrol head. Most cars leave me cold. I do however love "real" Citroens and don't accept that a car as distinctive as a BX is just a Peugeot 405 with hydraulics.
EDIT - 16/6/05 Ian has emailed me today with a little update - here is a small extract:
Of course I'll join the BX club. I've still got my
plate full at college for the next week or so though. Funnily enough,
just after your previous email, on came the "yellow lamp of death". I
nearly shat myself. Coolant was spewing from the radiator filler cap and dripping from underneath the engine. Eldon St. Garage sorted it all out. They fitted a new water pipe and radiator pipe and flushed the system out.
Thankfully no lasting damage had been done. Memo to self: GET
TEMPERATURE GAUGE
Good luck with the college course Ian - we look forward to hearing more from you.
Last edited by M on Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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DLM
- Our Trim Guru
- Posts: 1624
- Joined: Mon May 16, 2005 6:41 pm
- Location: Gosport, Hampshire, UK
- My Cars: 90s/00s - lots of BX hatches/estates 16/19i/17td/19d
2020s - A shinier red TZD estate has replaced scruffy 19TXD "Red Shed". - x 13
I've been cycling my way around the Gosport peninsular the last few days since I don't have a legal car until I can sort out my MOT. As this often means taking the "scenic" routes I've been slightly surprised to find only one laid-up BX - a tidy-looking petrol (1991/2 Athena) in silver metallic but with a dent/break on one corner of the hatch. Athenas are useful if you are a serial trim-upgrader, as they have the loom for most later BX toys and an electric passenger door mirror.
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Oscar
- 1K Away
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- Joined: Wed May 18, 2005 5:07 pm
- Location: Driving a ZX
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Oscar - Very simple things - cut & paste the club logo onto a word document.
Then a couple of lines:
www.BXCLUB.co.uk
No Spam, No popups, Just Friendly Advice & Chat
Keeping The BX Alive
thats wht I use..... you can get about 7 or so on a page of A4
Then a couple of lines:
www.BXCLUB.co.uk
No Spam, No popups, Just Friendly Advice & Chat
Keeping The BX Alive
thats wht I use..... you can get about 7 or so on a page of A4
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Oscar
- 1K Away
- Posts: 1091
- Joined: Wed May 18, 2005 5:07 pm
- Location: Driving a ZX
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Todays BX-ie
A shot and battered TZi in red in Ashton (Preston) with very bouncy suspension
A green TZD (H plate) in the ASDA car park at Fulwood
A very nice tidy red J plate TXD following me this evening (driver looked a bit manic though)
And a right scruffy TZD in off white that some git has dumped on my driveway.....
A shot and battered TZi in red in Ashton (Preston) with very bouncy suspension
A green TZD (H plate) in the ASDA car park at Fulwood
A very nice tidy red J plate TXD following me this evening (driver looked a bit manic though)
And a right scruffy TZD in off white that some git has dumped on my driveway.....
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Mr B
- Northern Moderator
- Posts: 710
- Joined: Mon May 16, 2005 12:32 pm
- Location: On a sofa, up the road from Marty!
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Mr B
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- Joined: Mon May 16, 2005 12:32 pm
- Location: On a sofa, up the road from Marty!
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Mr B
- Northern Moderator
- Posts: 710
- Joined: Mon May 16, 2005 12:32 pm
- Location: On a sofa, up the road from Marty!
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