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Cheap? £1250 (B)Sheldon https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/vauxhall-astra/1468336646

Citroen Streetwise £2300 Milton Hell https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2004-citroen-c3-14-hdi-16v-xtr-5dr-hatchback-diesel-manual/1464185728

Would £1200 Tamworth, Spanish waiter https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/lti-tx4-taxi/1468353004

Not factory fit, at least on my vintage. I think they came in the later 'wave' of EFi that had body colour spoilers, spats etc. Possibly around the same time Turbo arrived but that had its own la-de-dah body kit. Weirdly it's the Metro I remember most with the big MG octagons on the lower body.

"Toyota avenues 2.0L diseal" £1900 Cov. Photography is on a par with the spelling. https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/toyota-avenues-20l-diseal/1468252152

EXECUTIVE velour. £2k Chipping Camden. https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/1991-toyota-corolla-16-executive-5dr-auto-hatchback-petrol-automatic/1453497378

Is it wrong that I like this? Do I need to seek counselling? Academic because it's £3500 I haven't got. It's in (B)Halesowen. https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/daihatsu-hijet-cargo-japanese-import-ulez-compliant/1468236948

Moron £2800 Brum. Did these have some sort of funky moving centre panel? https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/2005-nissan-murano-35-v6-x-tronic-automatic-stationwagon-5-door-blue/1456444121

Maestro came out briefly because the forecast was for no rain. So I left it on the drive overnight and it rained, of course. Anyway the jobs were minor: 1) fit the steelies for winter storage, and 2) repair the ns side repeater. This had parted company with its orange lens so it was just a bulb sticking out of the wing. I managed to get some pattern replacements for £not much but of course they didn't fit without some modification with a drill. Anyway all good so it's back to being 'legal' again. I still have an ambition to take it to Wales for a lad's weekend in a couple of months. I mean it's Wales in November so it's likely to be wet, but if the temperature stays above freezing I might just avoid the salt. I've fitted the plastic wheel trims so it doesn't look quite so Autoshite. They are pretty scuffed up but serviceable. I managed to bag a NOS set of trims a while back for £40ish but ironically I don't want to put them on as I don't want to damage them... What a twat. Also installed yet more stickers: an Atlantic 252 one from @AnnoyingPentium I think, and a tweed beard Maestro Owners Club one. On the one hand it's now a bit over-stickered but on the other hand you're not the boss of me so I can do what I want.

Congratulations and commiserations in equal measure. If its a forum lurker I hope they start a thread for their stewardship of this absolute survivor.

WILL NO-ONE THINK OF THE MOSS Great Aldi. Why is there a fork in the windscreen?

Mrs Grogee sent me this pic yesterday. Initially I thought she was taking the piss but when she got home she said 'no, I think it looks cool'. Personally I think that's grounds for divorce, don't you? Look at the state of it! Barried T4, shit German font plates, Halfords GTI badge and lame A-Team stripes. What a throbber

Heroic welding there. This thing will be mega when you've finished. Top skills

"Get away from the car! You look like a couple of farm hands."

Thanks a lot. Useful info. Yes they did dick about with the design so there is a surprising amount of variation through time. I think the earliest ones had a two or three piece dash that was a squeak fest. Looking at yours it seems to be pretty much the same as mine in terms of switch and heater location, although I know my stalks use that clamp design you talk about. I'll keep an eye out for a dash but I'm hoping against hope there is some clever filler bodge that might be acceptable.

Nice one. How hard are they to swap, mine's cracked behind the instrument cluster. Not sure I'll ever find a non-cracked one, mind you.

I could put in a lazy comment like 'Why?' or 'ALL VOXALLS R SHITE' but I really like ours. On Tuesday I did a 6 hour drive in it and it was GR9 M9.

Buy this. Race me. Currently £5k, 4 days to run. In (B)Leeds tho. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276105772293?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=FSmevRiZTXi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=2Z40wC2iSsq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I do like it, could be tempted once I swap the Beamer gearbag and get shot of it. Looks like a relatively pain-free gateway drug into floaty Citroen ownership

My sympathies. WTF are Kettering and Corby for?

??? £2k Burton Latimer "this is a copy of the car that run 225 mph at the bonneville salt flats in august 2003 at the bonneville speed week nationals" https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/mg-zt-t-20-cdti-135-5dr-land-speed-record-replica/1467833367

Definitely* not a takeaway delivery vehicle. Lucky bastard lives near a Five Guys. £750 (B)Leicester https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/mitsubishi-space-star-13-petrol/1467844465

Slightly mauve GS450h with issues in (B)Hall Green for £1400. "sometimes cuts out but starts again straight away" https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/lexus-gs-450h-hybrid-ulez-starts-and-drives-all-the-time/1467848012

At £2 a litre it's not much more expensive than diesel. For decent quality fully synthetic motor oil. 🙃

Does the Pope shit in the woods? It's a floaty Citroen and this is Autoshite. They're like catnip in these parts.