Citroen GSA on booze cruise

[mnde]

For our second trip over to Calais <> in recent times, I nominated my trusty GSA as transport instead of my girlfriend's Honda Jazz

 

This time we made a weekend out of it, but because the crossing was later than planned due to cancellations, we had to do most of our booze/Christmas shopping on Saturday evening because we didn't realise that on Sunday France is basically shut... Which gave us more of a sightseeing opportunity. So yesterday lunchtime, braving the rain and gales, we hopped onto the A26 and headed to Saint-Omer.

 

We parked in the Town Hall car park, where this was the gloomy scene...

 

 

 

Here we are, sandwiched between a nice Renner and a Focus comically parked "a la Francais". Note that we also were parked over the white lines in the French manner

 

 

From this vantage point, it looks like a damn good AS spot pic, but no, I parked it there

 

All I could muster was this snap of a lightly chavved 205 I'm afraid...

 

 

I saw three BXs, a brace of XMs, a couple of Renner 25s and a 4 - but I was either in no position to get a shot or it was bloody raining and my girlfriend would not have been amused. I only got the pic of the 205 because she was queuing to buy drinks from a take-away!

 

It was well worth the trip though, because we stumbled on the breathtaking gothic Notre-Dame Cathedral:

 

 

 

Here's a small Youtube clip my girlfriend filmed of the GSA in action on the A26 back to Calais! Apologies for the shite quality, but it's better than nowt! Oh.... there is a hi kwolity option on Youtube but my ancient work computer can't hack it... looks a bit better though!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdoElgux8ss

 

I thought the ending was hilarious, considering my car's 26 years old... in comparison with the modern being towed

 

The trip was a bit noisy, since the badly fitting pattern exhaust blows like mad when there's standing water . Cue a worried Lucy wondering if the car was about to fall apart....

 

Final pic: back safe and sound in soggy Calais and fully laden with boooooze. Can you tell? There were some comedy chinks over the speedbumps at the Eurotunnel check-in though!

 

 

And no, the driver's door isn't wonky, it's just not shut properly (in my haste because it was pi**ing it down).

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Guest]

Nice work, great to see stuff like this being properly used.

[pompei]

Fantastique!Self-levelling suspension - GR8 4 WAYIN DOWN WIV POP

[michiel]

Très nice, I'd buy one just to stare at the dash. GR8 4 LETHAL DISTRAKTION WHILE DRIVIN.

[nigel bickle]

Nice looking car ,good to see it being used as intended.Just a pity you picked such a cack weekend!

[MrRegieRitmo]

I'd love to one day take the R14 or other old rhd Renault to France & drive it around to see if anybody notices! The equivalent would be a Frenchman coming over here on his hols with his French registered lhd Marina! Something similar, but less dramatic was when we stayed in a farmhouse in Normandy in 1999 & the British owners had a D reg rhd R25 phase I with the headlamps converters permanently attached of course!

[outlaw118]

Lush!! (in all senses of the word!!)I had a Pallas saloon, but always hankered after the estate.

[Milford Cubicle]

Stellar work! I echo what Mr. Hirst said, it's great to see old cars being put to work, and reliably.

[garethj]

Note that we also were parked over the white lines in the French manner

Always take up 2 spaces so twice as many people will be glad when you leave Good work!

[mnde]

... and it's back to the daily slog to work. Took it to a fellow shite-lover's house last night to help fix his comp (no joy). When I came outside gone 11pm it was covered in snow!! Mad mad weather... and on the way back home I was worrying about whether the roads had been gritted or not Last time I had it waxoyled and undersealed was over 2 years ago... Time to ready it for a winter rest I think.Mark.