My god, has it been two year since the last update, so many things have changed....
Firstly, I met my soul mate in late 2012, we now live together and will be getting married next year, we are engaged/partnered but are looking to have a proper bash, sadly he doesn't share my love of Gallic cars but understands and humours me, so much so he the latest purchase (to be collected next week) he has agreed to pay for as birthday present!
A few movers and shakers car wise, I scratched my itch with wanting something British and old bought and sold a 65 Minor 1000 which I enjoyed, I did sell two MINT bx's to fund it which in some ways was a mistake, although the 19DTR paintwork let it down and drive me mad, plus do you need 4 BX's! all of which were so mint I didn't used them.....anyway the minor, well I bought it off ebay from a deaf man (yes he was deaf, and blind looking athe paintwork) it was slow, noisy, didn't stop and strangely it was rather unreliable, and Michael didn't like it at all, I enjoyed it for 12 months and fixed all the issues but it needed painting and I couldn't justify £2000 I didn't have on a repaint sold for a fair sum and the money was well used. (paying off debts etc)
Also I am now a self employed contractor for the VW dealer I once worked for, a promotion in many ways but I lost the company wagon, but saving a huge amount of tax, which meant for the first time in 15 years I needed a daily driver....so I did something stupid and bought the first car I looked at, a Xantia SX TD....which is on here somewhere, and then a Xantia Desire Auto, and next week a Xantia TD Athena, and have been given a Rover 25 and a BX TZD aswell as still having the SD1 and 2 other BX's and a my fathers Xantia (which still runs crap)
I am sure I said somewhere I would never buy another Xantia, the green one is rather shabby and has popped its clutch clip and throttle cable, but mechanically its great and runs well on its new spheres, wheels and many other things, the red Auto is LOVELY and so smooth but needs a sill repair and some paint to the front end .....
To be continued!
The 25, which we bought new, and has now had my treatment
Xantia Desire after a clean (it now wears S2 Exclusive wheels)
TD SX when it snapped its throttle cable!
