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    7 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

    Whilst discouraged, I don't think Copart actually stop people driving their cars away. Obviously a lot of the time it doesn't work as the car is bent, not holding coolant etc but people still try! 

    I bought my current Focus from a garage only a stone's throw away from our local Copart. They constantly have people coming in saying they've just bought a car from Copart but it won't start/there's a wheel missing/there are no keys etc and can they fix it while they wait! Most arrive by train expecting to drive home in their gleaming and flawless new car.

    eBay tat volume 3.

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    1 hour ago, anonymous user said:

    Did that have some weird system using iron filings and electromagnets? Or was that the Routes group?

    Easidrive! It used a 'magnetic powder' that could be troublesome. It was definitely available on the Minx and probably other Rootes products as well.

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    On 6/26/2021 at 11:42 AM, TheOtherStu said:

    I competely forgot about Minden (How could you forget? My Dad worked on that estate for years).

    I assumed that being "SEB" it was a private reg not putting 2 and 2 together (most Bury cars as you probably know are RT and BJ, with GV and DX etc. being reserved for Ipswich and the other side (God, I'm nerdy about these things).

    From a very young age, I had the ladybird book which showed you how to spot where a car was from, from the registration Pre-1983.

    I blame my parents for buying me an I-Spy car reg book!

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    11 hours ago, TheOtherStu said:

    Is it an original Bury car?
    I don't remember seeing too many Citroens back in the day around Bury. Apart from the obvious Fords and UK cars, the odd "foreign" ones were usually Volvo and Pug/Talbot due to the local dealerships (Cecil and Larter / Tim Brinton )

    Do we have any threads on old car dealerships? I love stuff like this. My Mum worked for Burrells (which became Cowies) in BSE. There are pictures of me wearing "launch" t-shirts for various Vauxhall shite in the early 80s somewhere (Mk1 Astra and Mk2 Cavalier).

    It's on a Cambridgeshire registration so possibly supplied by Chesterton Autocars in Cambridge?

    1983 dealer list -

    1983 Citroen dealer list

     

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