A couple of advert in the local press and I never looked back. I used to order a heap of parts Friday afternoon, do six days a week with almost no hitches whatsoever. More than reasonable prices, top-notch work from a mechanic that had read about cars, electronics and motorcycles every day of my life since I was about nine. Brought my beautiful collie-cross dog to work with me every day too.
A series of health scares and a horiffic back injury put an abrupt end to the love of my life.
Found a saviour in selling antique automobile & model engineering books on eBay allowing me once again to mix work with my interests.
So i had no need to think about BXs for a while.
However, I was toying with converting my BMW E36 Touring to LE2 Jetronic injection to simplify and future-proof it, when I came across this forum which made me want a final BX before I'm too old to care...
The last BX I had was a truly mint 1.6 RS a 1991 model for £50 from eBay. I bought it from Salisbury about 300 miles away. A one-way train ticket bought at the last minute for £12, and a £5 bus ride; I collected it on a wintry day. It was sold as needing a head gasket. About six stops later for water, i saw it was only a split coolant hose. I took a breather hose off to put in place of the burst heater hose. Fitted perfectly and I think I never bothered to put a proper hose in its place. The plug leads had partially melted on the exhaust manifold and I drove the remaining 250 miles on about 1/16th" throttle pedal as any wider the engine cut-out from the misfiring. A very close to an as new 35,000 mile car for pennies. Probably fetch 50-100 times that now?
I've driven, worked on and owned more BXs than most. I've driven almost every model of 1980s to early 90s Citroen from brand new and owned at least thirty of the things, including fifteen BXs. I was possibly the first mechanic who figured out that dropping the rear axle when doing a repipe the only way to replicate a neat factory-look instead of the rat's nests that some places were turning out.
I have a mint N/A XUD Peugeot 306 which I was given by my very last customer who passed away last year aged 96. A very good early Xantia 1993 same XUD N/A 1.9 engine and my late father's very last car a Nissan Micra which the local kids though it was okay to vandalise...
So, hello
