Onto
X's for me.
Has to be the one that got away and probably the closest I came to buying a new car. Of course still with my bargain basement head on even then, and it was a bit of a shot to nothing as well.
It was in the days of the "personal import" in the early 1980's. New cars on the continent were considerably cheaper than new cars in the UK so I did a bit of research, compiled a file, corresponded with a Belgian Dealer (by letter of course). All pre-internet, so I got the names addresses of a few Belgian Dealers from a visit to the library. As well as having in the reference section all the UK telephone Directories/Yellow Pages, they had them for other countries too. The dealer I plumped for and got responses from was called Descheemaeker . I always like a good name! Not really that it fell through, just another car that I had always fancied came up in an advert in the Evening Chronicle. Thursday's Chronicle was THE place for private sale cars in those days pre ebay, pre gumtree, pre autotrader, although exchange and mart was going strong. So I dropped interest in the XR2 and became the owner of a Lancia Beta Coupe from Alnwick and no doubt dubbed as a time waster by the Descheemaekers of Brugge to this day
and the car a Ford
XR2 which had newly come out in Diamond white sporting some nice pepperpots!
Regards Neil