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My wheels for the week. Perfect disguise for an English tourist.

 

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Shite-highlight of the week. I had heard the crunch a minute or so before. Simca badge at the back.

 

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Just as unlikely as a freshly crashed Alpine was this Starlet. No camera when I first saw it and when I went back to snap it I was expecting to see a black one.

 

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There couldn't be two at the same address could there?

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Some Citroens.

 

This was my favourite. Definitely a two cylinder, sounded quite sharp too; sports exhaust?

 

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Love the tow hitch on something with this much power, in a mountain district.

 

The Citrobishi (I didn't know these had happened). Citroen still at the badge engineering business!

 

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post-17481-0-57792900-1413634197_thumb.jpg Quite a few Amis, no Dyanes though.

 

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Renaults, mostly lots of Twingos and Mk2 R5s.

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Loads of these of course, here in car-derived-van heaven.

 

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The bumpers looked like they were galvanised - ?

 

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Landrovers etc - working 4x4 are common here but almost none of the massive Chelsea tractors that clog up English market towns.

 

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The 3 door variants look so much better to my eyes.

 

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I dislike coach-built campers as a rule but this one was interesting; the body seemed to be a one-piece fiberglass moulding, much stronger looking than the usual formica and pop-rivets.

 

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There is I believe a lot of chod still about in rural France because there is no house to house rubbish collection. Each village has a mini recycling centre called a poubelle. Now you wouldn't want to be taking all your bourguignon and foie gras leftovers along there with all your empty wine bottles and other trash in your nice new Mercedes would you? So you buy an old minger which because you are out in the middle of nowhere you don't bother to tax and insure. The local gendarme is probably your second cousin and the Mayor your uncle.

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I was over in France & Spain on the bike recently-stayed close to Potier, then on to Aurillac, then Perpignan before heading to Spain and Tossa del Mar for a few days, then onto Sos del Ray Catholico before getting the ferry back from Bilboa. The majority of the time we rode through rural areas, using B roads, and kept off of the main routes and motorways.

 

I was on the lookout for chod, and apart from a few Renner 4's and Belingo's, saw little in the way of shite cars. I must have ridden with my eyes closed.

 

The only thing I remember was an seemingly abandoned car showroom with a dust covered DS21, Renault Dauphine and a few other cars, plus an Ossa motorbike or two in a town near Sos Del Rey, quite possibly Sangeusa. Couldn't stop to take any photos, sadly, as the rest of the group we buggering off into the distance.

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Found a yard full of UMMs today, resting from the summer 4x4 safari trade. Run out of camera battery so have a google streetview view. (Almost the same as today's reality, but less rain)

 

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I am staying in Prades, in the East of the French Pyrenees.

LeBoncoin tells me the 3000 euro Cadillac hearse for sale nearby is still available. http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/863507338.htm?ca=13_s

I am reliably informed that a Cadillac hearse does not fit in with (our) future.......

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I exaggerated the steering play on the Twingo, it is less than 45degrees, perhaps 25. That apart, it is a happy little thing.

 

Here it is in good company. The gold Twingo has a thing on the door by the handle. Does that make it a "phase 2"?  

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Orange 6. Saw this several times around town before cornering it.

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Several of these around, this was the cleanest. Note the neat plywood load-liner.

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Every picture tells a story dept: Two broken Renaults and two Clios. Espace and Vel Satis both had DCi badges. Quelle surprise. Note chain hanging from Espace tow eye.

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Not all Renault's are front engined; this Dauphine was being driven in "a sporty and aggressive manner" which may explain the need for the mirrors.

(But not excuse them)

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On the recent jaunt to Italy I actually got bored with spotting square Pandas and real Fiat 500's. How can that be? Sheer bloody volume of the buggers. There was a proper breakers yard about 10 mins away from Naples airport, it was FULL of Pandas and early Uno's. Most looked really intact. 

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The only BX spotted, shiny!

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Several XMs, none with trimz this bad though.

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Ami 6 Break - is two tone original?

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Diesel Niva

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MB van, that isn't a Sprinter. (Cheers Lukas)

Never new about these, saw three this trip.

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If it is a 4x4 here, it must be two doors only. (Apparently)

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My favourite 205

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Ok, but the word Sprinter was present on one of them, on the side or door I think.

 

It was a home-made camper, and the first one I saw. I guess the others had something else in MB font, and I just saw what I expected to see.

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Back here again. Sadly the delightful courtesy Twingo has been replaced by a new Clio, so cramped that I struggled to get behind the wheel and my passengers complained of claustrophobia and cancelled planned driving days.

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This airport transport kept having spasms of the autobox requiring power off / reboot at frequent intervals. It was having 'box glitches two years ago which Sister Asimo chooses to ignore with a shrug, because in France.

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But I did spot some nice cars.

 

 

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Small vans are easily 25% of the vehicles here, with C15 and Express just about as common as Berlingo / Kangoo moderns. Still some older favourites in use too.

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Some of the C15s are stretched - odd.

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If it has to be a 205 van there is still plenty of choice.

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Big Peugeots as well.

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Import (residential)

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