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Citroen bx 17rd, now a fun dfaily commuter, repair updates.


dean36014

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Whilst browsing some of the fine vehicles at the festival of the unexceptional yesterday with the good lady my phone pinged with a 10 minute item ending on Ebay. Obviously I showed this to the other half and she being unlike any other woman I've dated immediately encouraged me to put a bid on it. As i have no room at 36014 towers for any more motors, losing my lodger at the end of the month, and being otherwise pretty broke I obviously immediately placed one bid for the next bid price up. Was very surprised to be the highest bidder, but no worries its obviously going to go up a fair chunk in the last few minutes. So more wandering around the show with limited 4g and later on suddenly remembered the auction and wondered how much it sold for eventually. Check phone and.........Bugger!, only gone and won the damn thing. Cue mass panic, trying to palm it off on Dollywobbler and six cylinder, and then realising that actually it I could fit it in maybe, and its only bloody money.
So how to get it? car is 80 miles away, girlfriend only has an automatic licence, and I have no automatic cars and the new purchase isn't either. Six cylinder made the very kind offer of a lift from another autoshiter who's name I have unfortunately forgotten, but in the end I've man'd up and booked train tickets for the princely sum of £13. Now I should add that a, I'm not good with crowds, b, get a little panicky in unfamiliar situations, and c, the last time i went on a train i swear there was porters pushing hand carts on the platforms, a friendly station master and Beeching hadn't devastated the network. So there is a strong chance that as I have no one to hold my hand this could end up a complete disaster. So insurance procured for £115 for the year as its 30 years old and eligible for very cheap insurance, and first train needs to be boarded at 1.30pm. I will endeavour to update this thread later as the day progresses.

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Made it home. It drives really well. The suspected broken exhaust turns out to be a split in air intake system. The bodywork is pretty damn good, it will need a tickle at some point on the front inner wings. The less said about the interior the better, I've been inside cleaner skips!

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