No Bxs spotted!!

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:56 pm

Went to France last week in my Light fifteen...cover over 800 miles from Stoke to Normandy running about and return trip.......I never spotted a BX at all.....not in the UK or in France!!.....Loads of XAntias in France which did suprise me. But not a single BX.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:03 am

Just back from a 1200 mile jaunt in France:

1 BX TZD Turbo, 1 Phase 2 BX 16v and a beaten up old BX of indeterminate type... and that's it. I saw more XMs than BXs.

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:35 pm

I crossed France twice in the last month and saw five BXs - two moving under their own power. The real survivor seems to be the Peugeot 205 - there are unbelievable amounts still driving about, I think I must have seen at least fifty!

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:54 pm

In my opinion it's the Renault 21 that has survived in huge numbers compared to it's BX contemporary. I saw a delicious 1988/89 21 turbo ABS and a Quadra(?) in the same village.

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:03 pm

The further south, and rural you you go, the more BXs you start to see. There are still quite a few knocking about, just not in the north it would seem.

I also think a lot of them have migrated east... When I was in Prague/Czech Republic and Poland a couple of years back I saw loads of BXs, and about three different valvers in one day!

Des Smith · Post by **Des Smith** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:19 pm

Last foray across the ditch was for four days last February and the BX count totalled five, (all hatchbacks) and all seemed to be roadworthy. I also got a cheery wave and a big grin from a passanger in some anonymous modern saloon who seemed impressed to see a Brit BX in his bit of France. However, I haven't seen a DS or an ID for a long time...

Alastair · Post by **Alastair** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:35 am

I did see 2 DS s in Normandy however

Vince Pepper · Post by **Vince Pepper** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:49 am

we went to the Vendee in the May half term, had a BX park next to us at the super U, kids were shouting "look another Uncle Buck car", cheeky wotsits ! I also spotted at least 2 more, one passed us on the motorway at a very suprising speed

Des Smith · Post by **Des Smith** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:13 pm

Vince Pepper wrote: one passed us on the motorway at a very suprising speed

Must have been me!

KevR · Post by **KevR** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:42 pm

Still quite a few BXs on the road round here on the Cotentin peninsula - you don't seem many on the motorways but I see quite a few around town and in the villages and back roads.
Just been to town and back and saw a couple, plus three 2CVs and a Mehari. Lots of Meharis around here in fact as we're close to the sea and the Parisians like to keep them at their second homes to head for the beach in the summer.

citsncycles · Post by **citsncycles** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:46 pm

I took the GS to Salbris for the 2CV world meeting (it's the only road legal & running car in the fleet at the moment) and spotted loads of BX's including:

Cottage
14TE
3 x valvers
2 x sports
2 or 3 other special editions I've not seen before
several others with no model badging evident.

Most of these were out and about being used, and were also quite tidy

I took some pics so I'll get a few posted in the next day or 2.

ren16tx · Post by **ren16tx** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:28 pm

i've too have just returned from the 2cv world meeting,i hear, unofficialy there were some 8000 "A" series cars, we arrived on friday,and was told site was "full"!! so went in as day visitors, and went to a very nice camp site about 15km away!!
i only saw 2 GSA's at the show,no GS's, let alone a British one! i took my R16 TX,which did go down well especialy with a green R16 and a daulphine were we had a good hooting contest in the local town centre!!
we traveled around a 1000 miles and spotted so many Bx's!! counted 3 within 5 mins, and two were mk1's!!!!! well into high double figures we saw, and a good dozen or so mk1's, but not so many estates, went to a big scrapyard (i needed a streering bush for my mk1) and they had 4 Bx's! sadly, one was an early mk1 in that pastel blue (which gave up her steering gaiter!) and collected several yellow headlamps bulbs!!
other than Bx's, loads of pug 205s,R21's and R25's and safranes, and mk2 R5's are just everywhere! i do think there is going to be a large decline in xantias very soon,seeing many getting very tatty now,
chris

citsncycles · Post by **citsncycles** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:44 pm

i only saw 2 GSA's at the show,no GS's, let alone a British one!

My GS/A count were 2 x GS Estates, 1 GSA estate, 2 GS saloons (including an X3!) and a GSA Hatch - all left hookers. and all at Salbris. My GS Estate was in the field by the exit from the camping area, but as it was tucked at the back by the woods you needed to hunting to see it. You could barely see my Severn Cross, and that was on a 6m pole!

I'm just going to familiarise myself with picture posting and will start a new thread.

ren16tx · Post by **ren16tx** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:54 pm

you did good G spotting!! we saw a bronze gsa hatch camped outside the entrance, and another towing a caravan through the town, did see several Ds's, Cx's, Bx's including about 3 or 4 mk1's, couple visa's and lna's, 2 other R16's, caravelle ,Dauphine and a pug 403!!!!
but what an event!!

citsncycles · Post by **citsncycles** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:19 pm

Certainly the biggest I've ever been to! The official count on Saturday night was 7034, but how many of the couple of hundred camped on the adjoining building site were included I don't know.

what I couldn't get over was how the whole town had got into the spirit of things - every shop had 2CV pictures and models in the window, and every house seemed to have decorated their gardens