Barn find! - collecting next week - epic road trip!

[cms206]

Been offline for a few days, so... well done! XM Estates are bloody handsome things and one of my planned future guilty pleasures, once I'm earning stupid amounts of money and have started on The Sauce again.

 

Top work!

[eifion]

XM Estates are bloody handsome things and one of my planned future guilty pleasures, once I'm earning stupid amounts of money and have started on The Sauce again.

 

I've an a couple of XMs over the last five years or so. Their reputation as money pits is a bit overstated I think. They're not that expensive to run, and certainly cheap enough to buy. Find a good one and look after it and they can make surprisingly reliable shite. I drove 600 miles in a day in one a couple of years ago and I can't think of many other cars I'd like to do that in.

[eddyramrod]

Nice find! Good luck with the collection mission...

[Lord Sterling]

Great work Messerschmitt! I 'd really love to see the full leather interior of this car.

 

Incidently, I found a G-plate V6 XM that been parked up for while, I got caught papping it and the seriously old Commer van that were parked up in a garden. I asked the owners elderly wife if it was for sale, apparently it is:

 

 

I can grab some details if you or anyone else is interested, though it'll have to be next weekend or something as I'm working all week.

[messerschmitt owner]

Mo

 

give me details of the XM V6 and I will spread the word - looks like a £200 scrap car to me though.

 

Not sure the XM leather is as sumptuous as the Rover's - it is all black - but it is a lovely place to be seated.

 

MoT booked for Wednesday, arranging to visit and collect the XM tomorrow. With luck, the MoT won't throw anything serious at me.

[messerschmitt owner]

Mo

mentioned it on the XM forum.

 

Campbell

[Ross_K]

How long's that been sat there?

 

Moss growing under it, and probably growing inside too if it's been sat there in the rain with that passenger side window open.

 

The owner has taken the trouble to SORN it though - maybe he thinks he'll get it back on the road some day...

 

The weighbridge beckons.

[messerschmitt owner]

The weighbridge beckons.

not before some parts are rescued - but I think that's the ultimate destination - sooner rather than later.

[RobT]

Good luck with the MoT Campbell

 

There's a very early one local to me too that I've been eyeing up for years, exact same as this apart from the moss growth (it's been parked up for ages)

 

 

The owner looks a bit fierce though so I've never had the guts to approach him about it!

[Rocket88]

Good luck with the MoT Campbell

 

There's a very early one local to me too that I've been eyeing up for years, exact same as this apart from the moss growth (it's been parked up for ages)

 

 

The owner looks a bit fierce though so I've never had the guts to approach him about it!

 

Stick a note under the windscreen wiper

[Spiny Norman]

Hope the MOT goes OK Campbell. Nice looking car that, and quite a useful tool with that load bay I'd guess.

Will it actually swallow a Messerschmitt whole?

[trigger]

Talking of old XM's this was traded in at my local Ford garage during the scrapage scheme, it had done 154k but the car looked mint, even the interior was spotless and being a 2.0i Turbo model I'd expected it to be quite rare.

 

1994 Citroen XM 2.0i Turbo in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

1994 Citroen XM 2.0i Turbo in Ipswich by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[messerschmitt owner]

Hope the MOT goes OK Campbell. Nice looking car that, and quite a useful tool with that load bay I'd guess.

Will it actually swallow a Messerschmitt whole?

It wouldn't swallow it whole but it would swallow a whole one! (in parts!)

[AnthonyG]

That red V6 does look seriously dead. I wonder what expensive fault will send the owners late 1990s Audi A8 into a similar spot, half on driveway, half in flowerbed!