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That's awsome spotting! Have a couple tp pop up but will do tomorrow when wifes at work and kids at school/nursery and have some peace!!!
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I heard about this, some very keen eyes indeed! :shock: Obviously got Xantias on the brain :lol:
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CitroJim wrote:This a bit of a different kind of spot:

I'm down at Dad's at the moment, in Somerset. Dad's bungalow is near a railway line.

A couple of hours ago I received a text from Kev (Red Dwarfers) asking if by any chance a certain dark blue Xantia he'd spotted from the window of a train he was travelling on happened to be mine.

Indeed, yes it was mine and he's spotted it from a 100mph train. I believe he was on a Xantia delivery run(n) :wink:

All I can say Kev is you have very keen eyes :)
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couple of new to the area Xants from last week,
down at the local kids inflatable play area,
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and an s1 elation in tesco car park! - had to park next to it!!
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and in a very sorry for itself state in the breakers yard, a 309Gti!
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also spotted a Red avantime on the A390 on saturday on the way back from the inlaws, 52 plate southampton reg, no pics as was driving and was coming the other way,
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Saw a couple this morning en-route to Wisbech. One Series 1 Xantia Estate in Silver, and a Series 1 Xantia Hatch in Black wearing C5 alloys...
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Made a few rarish spot's over the last couple of days, yesterday a G reg Romahome and today a Renault Safine
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I spotted a Rare as hens teeth car today, but not french, no picture as was driving and wife not interested! But a Lovely Honda NSX! Am sure I saw it last year in the park and ride car park in truro but Lovely looking motor that!
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Its been a while since I saw a Honda NSX!

French cars seem to be thin on the ground arond here, not seen very many recently. I did see a S1 Xantia estate with ladders on its roof and a very tidy petrol L reg Xantia, might have been a 1.6 or 1.8.

Apart from that, nothing of interest, boring!
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My facebook friends will already have seen my spot of the year...

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Down in Bristol today I've seen a Renault 5 Campus in white, something I haven't seen in years.
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Working at Wigan this morning, and arrived to see another C6 already in the car park.

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Three Xantias in the past two days. Tatty grey estate, passed to quickly to get the spec. blue 'R' reg saloon, 1.9TD SX and in Durham yesterday a very brown and shiny unbadged V-reg hatch. Looked immaculate.
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spotted a black Xantia hatch today just outside Farnborough, then on the way down the A3 passed a stunning green DS, was in the Activa

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I also spotted a DS today, a later twin headlight car in very pale yellow. It passed me on the opposite side of the M1 near Northampton at around 4.00 this evening.

I also saw three S2 Xantias, again on the other side of the same motorway. Two red and im sure a dark blue S2 Activa.
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Paul (owner of Old V6) and I spotted a 'foreign' (i.e not known to us) Xantia in the works car park today...

Normally the only two are his and mine although most of this week it's only been his as I've been running around in Robyn's 206 and giving Rattiva a bit of a rest..

It was a Dante's Red 1.8 16v LX S1 with lovely peeling lacquer but otherwise nice and tidy.

Paul is getting a right Xantia spotter now. He identified it as an S1 from a long way off by the dark rear lights and no 'tit' on the roof (rear window washer jet)... :-D
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