Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)
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Re: Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)
I spotted the tail end of a GSA drive past me in the middle of Glasgow the other day. I was gutted that I didn't get a close look at it - I was parked on the side of the road waiting for SWMBO and not paying attention to passing cars, looked up and saw it about 100 metres ahead of me and it could only have driven right past me to get there. DOH! A very rare sighting these days - I last saw one about a year ago and it was probably the same one as it was in roughly the same area!
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Silver Xsara parked in Paignton this evening (while driver was in Lidl's)
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Heading back from Flitwick I saw a Citroen DS, reg (IIRC) RJL 312J.
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Had to look it up. Reg spot on. 1971 Citroen DS Beige. Now if it was Beige every chance that it was Beige Albatros, a colour mostly available on a DS Pallas but not on other variants, and the only beige coming out of the factory in 1971.Hell Razor5543 wrote: ↑05 Jan 2019, 20:15 Heading back from Flitwick I saw a Citroen DS, reg (IIRC) RJL 312J.
Its all in French, but info comes from here.. (albatross is a very grey beige).
http://www.nuancierds.fr/AC%20087%20Bei ... batros.htm
You are going to tell me it was red now!
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It was exactly the colour in the photograph, and (allowing for the lighting conditions this afternoon) she looks as good now as in that photograph.
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Saw a silver Xsara in a church carpark in Preston (that's the bit between Paignton & Torquay - locally known as "bankrupts' row") Chances are it was the same one I saw on Christmas Eve. A little further along was a red 205 in what, I imagine, is its usual parking spot.
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'81 2CV Club
'05 C15
'97 Xantia Exclusive estate
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Jeep XJ Cherokees x 3
'96 Cadillac Eldorado
'99 Cadillac STS
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This is a Red DS that lives in the little village by the sea couple of miles from me, normally under cover, but makes me drool every time I see it!
After All, I am the Cornish one!
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Saw this smart looking Mark 1 C5 ...............and still working hard
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Was he going off road??....
After All, I am the Cornish one!
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A friend of mine has just bought this.
Really love this colour on the 306, only remember ever seeing it on one other.
This must have been one of the last of them before "the new 306" came along surely? One of the last N/A diesels I'd imagine too.
Bit of a laundry list of niggles needing sorted as you'd expect at nearly 200K, but seems a really solid base to start with.
Like both of the ones I've had it still has that new car smell inside despite the age.
Really love this colour on the 306, only remember ever seeing it on one other.
This must have been one of the last of them before "the new 306" came along surely? One of the last N/A diesels I'd imagine too.
Bit of a laundry list of niggles needing sorted as you'd expect at nearly 200K, but seems a really solid base to start with.
Like both of the ones I've had it still has that new car smell inside despite the age.
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Other French Stuff and a rare sight these days. Not exactly concours d'elegance, and maybe a touch lop sided
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'99 Cadillac Seville STS
'96 Cadillac Eldorado ETC
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Funny thing about these rare sights, they come up for sale all the time, e.g. I doubt I see more than 1/2-doz C15's in the course of a year - yet probably that many change hands every souple of weeks.
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& the numerous "abandoned projects"
'81 2CV Club
'05 C15
'97 Xantia Exclusive estate
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Jeep XJ Cherokees x 3
'96 Cadillac Eldorado
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& the numerous "abandoned projects"
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No pictures, but yesterday I saw a 58 reg C6 in the Staines area (bit tatty, as the lacquer was peeling) and then (on the M4) a 53 reg Avantine, while today I saw a Citroen Dolly in Reading, and a green 2CV between Marlow and Henley.
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Have a look at this one James, 53 reg and sold in Reading Berkshire! Could it be your spot
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1061342
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Re: Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)
Nope, the one I saw was dark grey.
James
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