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  1. I am surprised that your XM nose dives under heavy breaking. Citroen already had that sorted out with the DS so that rear seat passengers would likely be thrown against the rear of the front seat rather than over the top into the front seat occupants. There were no rear seat belts and usually no front head rests at that time. How was it done? Heavy breaking would use fluid taken from the rear suspension.
  2. Did they break down or run out of petrol on their way to the seaside? The lack of a knotted hanky on the chap's head shows that it is a normal cloudy British summer day.
  3. Fascinating pic, we are close to Wateringbury and our village also had a brewery
  4. I seem to recall that on the two I owned in the early seventies the bonnet was hinged at the front. Just saying like.
  5. I thought the plate was familiar!
  6. No1 I suspect as it was a while ago Will they pass their MOTs if their horns don't work?
  7. I don't follow the Tour de France but it is highly unlikely that they used a RHD DS
  8. I was driving north a few years ago, it was pouring with rain and I was following a bini done up to represent a highland cow. The tail was attached to the rear screen wiper so was wagging hypnotically. Fortunately I was not going all the way to Scotland. Sorry no pics but someone from north of the border must know of it.
  9. I suppose you've tried the usual 1234 (not having read the whole thread)
  10. Eevn the logo suggests you run away from them
  11. Whilst waiting at the lights I noticed that the blue BMW alongside had an incredible dose of BL orange peel paint finish. I was even more surprised when it pulled away and I could see it was a 22 plate. Are they coming out of the factory like that ? It made me laugh that the driver was obviously ignorant of the passenger side's paintwork or just thought that it was acceptable on a new car.
  12. Nah, if you hit the first one fast enough you land nicely on the down side of the second
  13. It always enhances the sale when you leave the tow rope attached
  14. A friend bought an 8 cylinder yank that was running a bit rough. When he checked under the bonnet he found that the back spark plug was missing and had been replaced with a wooden plug. Hoping to get some improvement in performance he removed the wooden plug and fitted a random spark plug. He tried to start the car which didn't go at all well and when he took the head off he found that there was no piston or con rod in the back bore.
  15. My pals who were in the motor trade with fronts around West Wickham back in the early seventies were always punting duff cars on to each other. It was a game that we all laughed about in the Wheatsheaf.
  16. The archetypal villains car in an archetypal villains location
  17. So many properties in France were built straight onto the road making them undesirable today to people who don't like 40 ton lorries thundering by 1 metre from their windows.
  18. When you say "really old" consider what a 1904 car would look like an my 1973 Citroen DS which is coming up for its 50th birthday!
  19. Something I never understood about the 924 is why the windscreen is recessed as though they put it in the wrong slot of a sliding window channel
  20. Kenneth Noye was also living near Brands Hatch. He killed Stephen Cameron in a road rage attack at Swanley.
  21. There are hoarders, collectors who have become too old or ill and those who think they have a pension fund. They all put a burden on those that take over the property. There is an Audi near me that looked abandoned on the street until a week ago when suddenly it was washed and being used again. Perhaps the owner had been working overseas or detained at her Maj's pleasure. Just along the road from that house there is another with the front garden full of those Rovers? in dark green with the bright orange air intake at the front. On a walk around the residential streets I noticed that there were several driveways with various types of Volvo stagnating. They seem to be some sort of trendy garden feature because the houses and gardens are well cared for. Many years ago there was a story about an apparently abandoned Chapron decapotable Citroen DS on the streets of that there London. A guy not wishing to see such a valuable classic swept up by the council removed it to safe storage and notified the police as to his action. It eventually turned out it belonged to the comedian Peter Cook who was working in the US. Also many years ago when I worked in London I used to walk by one of those Fiat 500 beach cars abandoned in a road that had a street market. The market traders were of course using it as a skip. I can only assume that it was used by someone who needed to get back to the UK from the Med the cheapest way they could and then had no further use for it and found it unsellable in the UK. Does anyone else remember it or have any further information?
  22. Is that a proper splitty or is it just a bit of glazing bar stuck on the screen?
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