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28-32 Highbury Corner - remnants of the garage survive...now a Waitrose (well it is Islington).

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Bad News from Citroen - yes we can no longer buy them new. But the good news is absolutely zero depreciation on a 2CV if you'd kept it in fine fettle.20200529_133304.thumb.jpg.d41e8b8f52f13d2e36422a18f15dfcd3.jpg

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1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Bad News from Citroen - yes we can no longer buy them new. But the good news is absolutely zero depreciation on a 2CV if you'd kept it in fine fettle.20200529_133304.thumb.jpg.d41e8b8f52f13d2e36422a18f15dfcd3.jpg

Inflation-adjusted, that makes the 2CV £9.5k

The CX Safari £29k

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3 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

....The CX Safari £29k

What would be its contemporaries in the thirty grand bracket today?

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35 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

What would be its contemporaries in the thirty grand bracket today?

I assume

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Reliant not sporty enough - Glanfield's have an alternative. No answer on telephone number Fin. 0091 so far though.

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3 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Why indeed?

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Is that Roy Castle?

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Garage still there - Bagneux Paris. Estafette probably not. Estafette was fwd - name translates as courier.

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3 hours ago, Austat said:

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Love child of Maxi and shuvit? Looks a bit like Maestro..

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Ah, close your eyes while grinding method , been there done that , do it often enough and it doesn’t turn out well


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2 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

 


Ah, close your eyes while grinding method , been there done that , do it often enough and it doesn’t turn out wellemoji3.png


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There's a certain irony in that the Tucker was billed as some sort of safety car... perhaps not when you're building it !

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Forty nine years ago (does that sound better or worse than almost half a century) I went on a school trip to Europe. Some of the more interesting pics (I couldn't afford colour film then).

Luxembourg.

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Austria.

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Either Austria or Switzerland

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Paris

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Transport back over the Channel.

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Some interesting double decker buses, even by French standards.

 

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Thanks for that, should have realised (after all these years!) it was Switzerland as we stayed in Innsbruck and it's definitely not there.

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