Went to a boot sale here in France on saturday, and spotted one guy selling from a black BX Image TD estate, absolutely immaculate despite over 400,000km on the clock, so got chatting. When I said I had two TZD estates he said, 'Oh, you'll be wanting to buy these then,' rummaged under his stall and pulled out a Citroen-marked box containing a full set of five spheres. It's not unusual to find secondhand spheres for sale but of course normally I'm not interested as they'll have only been changed because they were knackered.
Not so in this case. Turns out he's a former Cit dealer mechanic, had two estates as well, and had changed both sets of spheres a few months back (the bill was dated March). Genuine Citroen spheres - new type with metallic grey painted finish - and frighteningly expensive. Then someone in a lorry wrote off the second estate so he'd retrieved the new bits before it went to the scrapper. French insurance payouts take into account recent money spent on the car, so he'd got most of the outlay back from the insurance, and flogged me the full set for 50 euros.
1990 BX TZD Estate ('the grey one', 1991 BX TZD Estate ('the white one'), 1982 2CV6 Charleston (in bits), 1972 AZU Serie B (2CV van), 1974 HY72 Camper, 1990 Land Rover 110 diesel LWB, 1957 Mobylette AV76, 1992 Ducati 400SS, 1966 VW Beetle, 1990 Mazda MX-5, 1996 Peugeot 106D, 1974 JCB 2D MkII, 1997 BMW R1100RS, 1987 Suzuki GSX-R1100, 1978 Honda CX500A, 1965 Motobecane Cady, 1988 Honda Bros/Africa Twin, 1963 Massey Ferguson 825, and a lot of bicycles!
