How many BXers have a personalised number plate?

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i have C16 VBX on the valver
The citroen bx loves garages hates driving

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i have C16 VBX on the valver
tis interesting all this. It seems that my opinion is shared: cockwaddery - I like that, I'm also stealing that fine word.

I wonder if the reason that the survey revealed BX owners to be the least likely because we are a certain stereotype (not the ale drinking beardy - whatever that actually is?) - but those that do have one such as C16 VBX, it is more about the car than the owner name - same as the ridiculous XAN7IA or whatever it was. I've never noticed that there was much similarity between BX owners myself but Peugeot 405 owners up here at least, all look the same :lol:

I wonder if this survey backdates to when BXs were current models because it seems inaccurate to compare BX priv. plate use to reps in 4x4s today as there are many more of those but the report doesn't say.
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Aerodynamica wrote:the ridiculous XAN7IA or whatever it was.
Be careful Graeme :wink: :lol: XAN71A graces a car owned by someone you know.... He inhabits a number of pages every month in a certain magazine, a few pages up from you....
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a few pages up from you....
!! few pages down !!

Guess it must be the Xantia guy then! good informative column he writes!

-Still don't like silly number plates!
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I think the BX is the least common car with a p/plate as typically the average BX owner isn't materialistic in any way. They're worth zilch and to be fair we don't get people who go on about how much they've spent at a dealer and how many receipts they've got etc.....the majority of BX owners just get out there, get their hands dirty and drive the things.

I've been to shows before where a car on show as garaged every day and only come out when the sun shines, which is rarely in the UK. And when they do come out they ponce it around everywhere!
At one of the shows, there was a TVR stand which we were invited to park on. It had people sat there polishing and re-buffing and everything....I was actually proud to turn up with squashed bugs on the front and brake dust on the alloys!! Because the difference is I had fun in mine on the way there.
I've seen stands where grown men actually care whether their car is more shiney than the one next door! The fact that whatever car they're polishing was generally crap when it was new, let alone now seems irrelevant!

Same goes for the BX. I had my polishing moments when I first got it as to see a tidy BX is a rare sight, but now it's generally filthy, pink and ropey. And I still think it's important for young kids who have no idea what the cars are to have one rip past their dad's A4 or similarly boring mobile at 125mph :lol: It's education. I'll clean it every now and then and enjoy taking it back to showroom fresh, but for everytime I clean it, I'll drive it 25times in the mud!

So...I think it's really really cool that the BX is the least common car to have a posh plate, because it shows it's owned by people who value material things less and engineering more. Course, mines got a private plate from a previous life! But I'd sell it straight away if the whole service history didn't have H14 BAH plastered all over it, as mine was a KMO originally too.
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