Event Citroen Visa 40th Anniversary - You have missed it!

[beko1987]

I think its bloody selfish that you arranged all this on a weekend when Amy is working and I can't come. Can the 50th one be on a weekend when I can go?

[Mrs6C]

Bring the YoungBekos with you? The venue has a children's playground and we're going on a tour to the MK Museum this afternoon as well... great for kids...

[beko1987]

I wouldn't be able to leave until after lunch, Richardmorris from this parish is coming over to collect some computershite I have for him, plus it's raining here, we have the playdough out...

 

Have a fun day!

[ProgRocker]

In preparation for the upcoming celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Visa, to help you brush up on your Visa technical knowledge and also your French culture and language, here is an educational film!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjpLGmrSTk

If I had access to videos like that 23 years ago then I probably wouldn't have failed my French A Level!

[hairnet]

pics

 

wheres the pics

[Tadhg Tiogar]

pics

 

wheres the pics

I think I managed a few....

 

Also a bizarre set of circumstances which will test the mathematicians who specialise in calculating probabilities.

[Yoss]

Are you all still going to be there tomorrow? I can talk Mrs Yoss into a trip to the big car boot sale at the Bowl and pop into this on the way home.

 

Would you take kindly to a small blue Skoda getting in the way? It is a Bertone design so it shares a little DNA with the BX/XM. Probably wouldnt stay long as Mrs Yoss has a low boredom threshold but I think even she can see the class in a DS but I'd love to see a few CX's in the flesh.

[quicksilver]

The LNA and blue Visa were still where I parked them yesterday and hadn't made a bid for freedom

Visa variants by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

The Peugeot-Talbot contingent consisted of the 104 and Samba hatch that were at FOTU and this Samba cabrio, the third I've seen this summer

1983 Talbot Samba Cabriolet by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Non-Citroen corner had a rare exotic car. And a Maserati

2014 Maserati Quattroporte GTS by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

This CX was still in bed

Sleeping CX by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

This one looked rather good. 1960s Ford colour apparently.

1987 Citroen CX 25TRI Safari by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Incredibly rusty for 13 years old

2005 Citroen C15 Champ 600D by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Gorgeous and very expensive

1967 Citroen DS21 Pallas Decapotable by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Was hoping for a Visa cabrio and this one came all the way from Holland

1983 Citroen Visa 11RE Decapotable by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

The only Visa Olympique in the UK, freshly extracted from 17 years in storage

1984 Citroen Visa Olympique by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Going back tomorrow afternoon so hopefully there'll be more to see then.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Are you all still going to be there tomorrow? ...

Not me.

[quicksilver]

Shame we missed you today. We left at lunchtime after the road run had departed.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Shame we missed you today. We left at lunchtime after the road run had departed.

Never mind, ships are always destined to pass in the night.

 

Anyhow, here are some photos of today's Visa Section in Craig Revel Little Horwood:

 

 

 

 

 

<--- Strictly Bum Dancing?

 

 

 

 

Note the 4-door Visa Cabrio which came all the way from The Netherlands - the only foreign Visa seen.

 

The field could have contained far more cars than were present this afternoon, but apparently this is more likely to happen on the Sunday rather than today. Interesting selection of parts suppliers, including an Italian lad with a van filled with CX bits, none of which I need yet, and CX guru Stan Platts in his C5 Break all the way from Bradford.

 

The bizarre set of circumstances produced a fella in an "Isle of Man TT" T-shirt called Malcolm. Malcolm turned out to be a previous owner of my CX:

 

 

Work out the mathematical probability of one previous owner happening to turn up at the same event that I had driven his oul car to. 'twas Malcolm who had coated all the insides of my car in Waxoyl. He runs a Citroen workshop in Burnley and is a man I definitely want to get to know. He had also brought his long-suffering wife to the show; she didn't look particularly happy to be reunited with one of her husband's many past cars.

 

More photos to follow of all the other Citroens - including some XMs and a DS Decapo - when the uploading speed here is a bit quicker.....

[Mrs6C]

Are you all still going to be there tomorrow? I can talk Mrs Yoss into a trip to the big car boot sale at the Bowl and pop into this on the way home.

 

Would you take kindly to a small blue Skoda getting in the way? It is a Bertone design so it shares a little DNA with the BX/XM. Probably wouldnt stay long as Mrs Yoss has a low boredom threshold but I think even she can see the class in a DS but I'd love to see a few CX's in the flesh.

Yes Yoss...

 

There were some nice CXs there today. See Quicksilver's and Tadhg Tiogar's photos. Hopefully more cars tomorrow due to it being a Sunday and looking like being better weather...

 

The Visa (and almost Visa) count today was: 10 x Visas (including a Cabriolet from the Netherlands); 2 x C15 vans; 2 x Talbot Sambas (including a Cabriolet); 1 x Peugeot 104; 1 x Citroen LNA

 

Also 3 x ZXs, 1 x AX and a selection of larger Citroen saloons, estates, vans and décapotables of various types... along with several non-Citroen classics. It was an interesting mix and probably more interesting and a wider mix tomorrow.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Today's specials:

 

 

Amusingly, the cooking session in the Village Hall kitchen set off the smoke alarm.

[Yoss]

Sounds good. I should be there about lunchtime (whenever lunchtime is. Keeping it noncommittaly vague there). I shall come and find the Visa section.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....I shall come and find the Visa section.

You can't miss it. Also present were the supporting cast:

 

 

 

[Mrs6C]

Did you make yourself known to Six-cylinder? I think I had gone off to the hall for burgers when you were taking your photos... 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Did you make yourself known to Six-cylinder? ...

Errm...I forgot what he looks like.

[hairnet]

Did you make yourself known to Six-cylinder? I think I had gone off to the hall for burgers when you were taking your photos... 

[hairnet]

mx plated c15 was there last year looking as shonky

 

sleeping cx was at stratford last week

[Mrs6C]

Errm...I forgot what he looks like.

FTFY...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....sleeping cx was at stratford last week

It woke up, sort of:

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Errm...I forgot what he looks like.

 

once seen never forgotten lol

[Tadhg Tiogar]

For XM lickers:

 

 

 

....and the reason why they went all false quarterlight in the front doors:

 

 

....the glass is curved at the front.

[beko1987]

Which gets utterly filthy hammering up and down the motorway in winter, the water flicks all over it! I carried a packet of baby wipes in mine to clear it every few days!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Which gets utterly filthy hammering up and down the motorway in winter, the water flicks all over it! ...

...because avantgarde design*

[Six-cylinder]

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

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The Samba looks the most-evolved of the three.

[quicksilver]

That really shows how much longer the Samba is. I'd always assumed they were all the same length until I was told otherwise yesterday. Those extra 5 inches make it look a lot less sawn off.

[Bucketeer]

I may be around later this afternoon if you want any help packing up or whatever.

[Youngsod]

Heaven, I'm in heaven...