Spotted Xantias! (and other French stuff)

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Stop - I've already getting withdrawal symptoms 'cos my 2CV is so far from being usable since I was in Malmedy the w/eof the Spa 24 hr race.

Anyway,more recently, last Thursday morning, to be precise, coming back from Devon, off the M25 onto the A20 & in a laybye, over the hedge a familiar white boxxy shape, as I passed, glanced in the n/s door mirror &, yup - another C15! Don't think I've seen one (on the road) since Donnington (the village, i.e.) on way back from Manchester in July.
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Spotted a certain red Xantia Activa this morning whilst out on my run...

Parked in the vicinity of a well regarded vehicle repairer...

Took me quite by surprise at first.. I thought 'Gosh - a Xantia! '

Then I recognised the number plate - XAN71A :D

:D Hope the Two Wrestlers do a good job of fixing it Zel ;)
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Zel's Activa...

Still outside the garage being/has been repaired...
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A poor quality photo as it is a still taken from my GoPro video of a short bike ride...

And the sun was in the wrong place...
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Bit of a tweak:
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That looks a lot better Chris!
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Got to the top of the drive this morning & spotted a Xantia estate parked over the road - oh, yeah, it was the one I bought last night! =D>
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van ordinaire wrote: 29 Nov 2018, 20:06 Got to the top of the drive this morning & spotted a Xantia estate parked over the road - oh, yeah, it was the one I bought last night! =D>

:rofl2: :rofl2:
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Yeah, there was a slight hold up due to me leaving the wrong immobiliser code with the garage! Hopefully we should have it back on Monday.
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'97 Xantia Exclusive estate
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'96 Jeep Cherokee Limited - the "donor"
'99 Jeep Cherokee Orvis - the green one
'97 Jeep Cherokee Limited - the red one
'99 Cadillac Seville STS
'96 Cadillac Eldorado ETC
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walking down the road yesterday morning, a silver 406 estate went by - so seems I haven't got the only French estate of this era in the neighbourhood?
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'81 2CV Club :cry:
'05 C15 :!:
'97 Xantia Exclusive estate [-o<
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'96 Cadillac Eldorado
'99 Cadillac STS :|
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I saw this earlier today. I owned an estate version of this TZDturbo from 1991 until 1998. It had the most comfortable seats I've ever sat on in a car.
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I had a BX19RD estate and it was out first 'proper' car, rather than a banger, since the GS.
Quick, quiet, very roomy and very comfortable.
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JohnD wrote: 12 Dec 2018, 16:03 I saw this earlier today. I owned an estate version of this TZDturbo from 1991 until 1998. It had the most comfortable seats I've ever sat on in a car.
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Whereabouts in Spain did you spot it, John?
Registration is (I think) the old Cadiz prefix.

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Whereabouts in Spain did you spot it, John?

This BX was in Nerja. You're right about the Cadiz reg. You don't see too many of those about now.
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Post by white exec »

Nerja - we live around 20mins away.
We see only one BX with any regularity now, a BX D (which has to be a tad basic), a red Series 2, parked up (but in use) in El Morche. Scruffy, but it looks to be having some restoration work done on it, ever so gradually.
One more (a white S1 14 petrol) sat in various sidestreets in nearby Mezquitilla, and was finally left to rot in an open-air car park.
Otherwise, we see only one a year now, passing through.
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