Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)

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myglaren wrote: 31 Jul 2020, 14:35 Image
Spotted while trying to tax the Civic and untax the C5.
Not a reg.no. to appear on the list of members' cars over on Club-XM.
Looking rather good, though.
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It is a couple of miles away from me. They often have interesting cars. When my daughter had her yellow SAAB 900 cabriolet they had an identical one but there's was a 93 but both were 'R' registered.
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Heading back from Bristol I called into the Leigh Delamere services when I saw this Citroen (my company van is the dark blue Vauxhall in the background);
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3 RCZ's. All within a few miles of each other. I didn't know that there were that many.
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Coincidently, as above.
Except there were four.
Saw my neighbour in his at Aldi. Spoke to him later and asked if it was him I had seen near Stanley and it wasn't. So four all told.
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A 2CV spotted at the Avebury Stone Circle this morning having a chat to her little sister :)
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That 2CV is a cracking colour...

Not my spot unfortunately but on another forum I'm on someone spotted a silver S2 Activa on a V plate today. Seeing a Xantia out and about is a rarity in itself, but an Activa is quite a spot! Especially a Series 2.

That a car we know of on here?
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Zelandeth wrote: 23 Sep 2020, 22:40 That 2CV is a cracking colour...
Yes, it suits it rather well :D

Zelandeth wrote: 23 Sep 2020, 22:40 Not my spot unfortunately but on another forum I'm on someone spotted a silver S2 Activa on a V plate today. Seeing a Xantia out and about is a rarity in itself, but an Activa is quite a spot! Especially a Series 2.
Right up there with winning the lottery ;)

After seeing a non-French 35 year old car in very good nick in MK today Robyn and I pondered just how unusual it is to see anything much in excess of tens years old on the roads nowadays...

I can't remember when I last saw a Saxo in the wild and as for an AX... Last time I attended a rally I think... Likewise BX and CX...
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It was spotted in the vicinity of Ashford, Kent apparently.
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Not my spot.. The photo was sent to me by good friends away on holiday...
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I wouldn't be surprised if that is somewhat missing under the skin!! Last MOT expired in 2009, may well be just a shell! :-D But it is white Jim!! :-D
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I really need to be a passenger not a driver as in my local area there is a stunning AX on i think from memory a P plate and a Saxo that blends into traffic but again probably 20+ years old
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mickthemaverick wrote: 06 Oct 2020, 17:29 But it is white Jim!! :-D
That's what my friends thought, being white it would be ideal company for Daffodil :D

The BX is one Citroen I've never owned but have been very tempted in the past... Alas these days, there's no room for one :(
admiral51 wrote: 06 Oct 2020, 17:31 I really need to be a passenger not a driver as in my local area there is a stunning AX on i think from memory a P plate and a Saxo that blends into traffic but again probably 20+ years old
That's a very late AX Colin :) One of the last... I've not seen one in the wild for years now... In fact I can't think of the last time I did :o

Mind you, I can't remember the last time I saw a Saxo in the wild around here, except for the abandoned one about a mile away from me...

Maybe because they blend into the traffic so well!
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CitroJim wrote: 06 Oct 2020, 17:20 Not my spot.. The photo was sent to me by good friends away on holiday...
They thought it might be a good project for me....
I was putting a couple of Ford Prefects on the rusty wrecks thread here

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So I copied that BX there too

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Here's one you don't see very often nowadays...
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Seems only yesterday they were a common sight...

Come to think of it, the Xsara Picasso is becoming increasingly rare now...
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