Rugd1022 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 (edited) It's quite a while since I gave the old P5B Coupe some proper love and attention so I recently treated the leather to some hide feed - now when I open the doors the aroma is even more enticing than usual... and I'm not ashamed to admit that sometimes I like to just sit in it and take it all in... (pity this pic isn't a 'scratch 'n' sniff' job!) Last Sunday I nipped along to the National Mini Owner's Show at Stanford Hall near Lutterworth, I'll post some photos later Edited September 20, 2014 by Rugd1022 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 Last Sunday I nipped along to the National Mini Owner's Show at Stanford Hall near Lutterworth, I'll post some photos later Thanks - been there for the past five or six years with my youngest in his 1978 bog standard 998cc but this was the weekend his elder brother decided to get married and so we missed the show. Went to Uttoxeter two weeks before and I was disappointed with the trade attendance - that's what we go for rather than just look at cars that have arrived on trailers and been polished to within an inch of their life - a car is to be driven not a highly polished ornament ! . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 Goodwood part 2 This time a link to Popular Classics - all the photos are from 'outside' the event itself as the photographer didn't have a ticket !! http://popularclassics.forumcircle.com/viewtopic.php?t=21939&highlight=& . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kickstart Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 I'm staggered at how few Citroën CXs and Alfa 164s there are on the market at the moment. With the 164 the issue is probably likely to be parts these days. The youngest is now 16 years old and Alfa are not good at supplying parts for older cars. But the 164 is a very good car to drive and well made. Local Alfa specialist had one I borrowed for a day with 192k on the clocks that was still solid and quiet (far less squeaks than the BMW 3 series we have now) and went very well. Main problems are the motors for the air outlets for the climate control and if an auto the gearbox is not long lived (from memory the main problem was easily fixed but half the time a full gearbox rebuild was done instead, often not actually fixing the problem). All the best Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Thanks - been there for the past five or six years with my youngest in his 1978 bog standard 998cc but this was the weekend his elder brother decided to get married and so we missed the show. Went to Uttoxeter two weeks before and I was disappointed with the trade attendance - that's what we go for rather than just look at cars that have arrived on trailers and been polished to within an inch of their life - a car is to be driven not a highly polished ornament ! . It was a good show at Stanford Hall last week with some 'new' older cars on display which I've not seen before. Trade stands were good this year too although I didn't find anything I really needed this time around. I'm still processing my photos through the Kodak software to crop them a bit but I'll start posting them later on 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 21, 2014 Wasn’t the E24 635CSi also notable as the first car to appear on the market with velour upholstery? How has the Citroen GS held up over the years? I really liked my new 1977 one in “Geranium”! Lovely dial set. Best, Pete. I loved my GS Pallas - both of 'em (I had two in succession) notwithstanding some of their more irritating habits. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 The CX turbo was a proper Q car, very punchy performance. I'm told that the CX Turbo 2s were turned out with significantly more power than the official figure of 168hp, so that sounds interesting. Also there was some bloke named Simon Greenwood who ran Maikonics, the only specialist CX tuning outfit, but who was so good at his job that the demand overwhelmed him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium skipepsi Posted September 21, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 21, 2014 Is there a CX or classic Citroen club? Ivan it sounds like you have decided you want one they may know where some of the sorn ones are? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I noticed a number of 'retro' cars in the car park at Shenfield yesterday. Apart from my Granada, I saw a Triumph Dolomite, a Mk3 Capri Laser, a Mk2 Honda Prelude (with the pop-up lights) and a Mk2 RS2000! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Is there a CX or classic Citroen club? Ivan it sounds like you have decided you want one they may know where some of the sorn ones are? Yes, I've been looking at that already, thanks. I'd be thinking most of the SORN examples have corrosion problems of some sort. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Some of the lovely Minis on show at Stanford Hall last Sunday... This early Mk3 started life as a bog standard BL Mini 850 but has been transformed with some nice period mods, not least the 6"x10" J.A. Pearce alloys and Innocenti doors with integral quarterlights... 1964 Mk1 Morris Cooper 998... 1965 Mk1 Morris Cooper 998... 1966 Mk1 Austin Cooper 998... Deseamed 1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper 1275 S with early Wood & Pickett dash and interior... A very rare beast this one, a 1965 Mk1 Austin Cooper 1071 S in Fiesta Yellow / Old English White, a combo which is more popular now than it ever was back then. The 'Speedwell' alloys it sits on are modern copies of the ones sold in the '60s when Graham Hill had a hand in the company... 1967 Mk1 Austin Cooper 1275 S... My 1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper 1275 S, complete with period tax disc... While I was there I was offered a rare original '60s 'Radbourne' dash by another member of the Cooper Register, as period extras go it's a bit basic but it should look the part when I collect it and fit in the car... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Rare pic of Twiggy in her '68 Mk2 Wood & Picket Mini here, just scroll down the page a bit (not a Cooper, probably a beefed up 998cc job)... http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2313&start=90 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Going back to mentions of Citroens - when I bought my first Rover P6 way back in 2006, the chap I bought it from also specialised in DS's and had one for sale at the time, a real beauty in metallic black with res interior. While he was sorting a new battery for the P6 he let me have a go in the DS round his yard in Faringdon - I was amazed at how it felt compared to everything else I'd driven but the strange pedals and steering took a few minutes to adjust too. Given the rescourses and somewhere to put it I'd gladly have one. The same goes for the mighty Maserati engined Citroen SM, another 'must have' on the lottery win list! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 (edited) Going back to mentions of Citroens - when I bought my first Rover P6 way back in 2006, the chap I bought it from also specialised in DS's and had one for sale at the time, a real beauty in metallic black with res interior. While he was sorting a new battery for the P6 he let me have a go in the DS round his yard in Faringdon - I was amazed at how it felt compared to everything else I'd driven but the strange pedals and steering took a few minutes to adjust too. Given the rescourses and somewhere to put it I'd gladly have one. The same goes for the mighty Maserati engined Citroen SM, another 'must have' on the lottery win list! I bet you found the brakes *very* impressive! DSs are somewhat outside my budget, which is why I'm going for a CX. A restorer in Lancashire has offered me a choice of four CXs (including a GTi) which he is currently engaged in restoring and recommissioning. The photos he's shown me so far suggest an incredibly thorough job - new inner wings, etc. Fortuitously, there's also a Citroen specialist in Hitchin which offers body cavity wax / anti-rust treatment, as well as Andrew Brodie in Willesden for servicing and CX parts. At the end of the day, it's going to be a car which comes out every weekend, roams the M1, and lugs saddlery on rural roads and tracks, so the hydropneumatic suspension will be perfect for that type of thing. Edited September 23, 2014 by Horsetan 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 (edited) Going back to mentions of Citroens - when I bought my first Rover P6 way back in 2006, the chap I bought it from also specialised in DS's and had one for sale at the time, a real beauty in metallic black with res interior. .....The same goes for the mighty Maserati engined Citroen SM, another 'must have' on the lottery win list! My son's first ever picture of him 'driving' a car was when he was 15 months standing up on my knee holding onto the white plastic single spoke wheel of our DS19 mentioned here.There is another of him as a teenager knee deep pushing his mum's yeller 2CV ashore off the Holy Island causeway.... so he should have known better. (He is now 50 and into Dino engined cars: a Fiat spider, a Lancia Stratos + a long term project to re-construct a 246 spider to finance his OAP). But last year he partexed an MG BGT for an SM which the French dealer paid for his Channel ferry crossing to deliver/collect in Brittany. He brought the SM up to show us triumphantly and it fairly howled up over Hartside. Going back home to Oxford it lost all its hydraulics on the A1M and had to be piggy backed home. It only cost him £50 for a new seal at a Citroen specialist's somewhere in west London, nevertheless he swapped it for a simply beautiful (as new) dark green DS21 which he has used daily since in commuting to Bicester Parkway. dhig edit to add link Edited September 23, 2014 by runs as required 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Watching repeats of Top Gear on 'Dave' recently there was a piece on Citroen engineering, explaining why the Beeb always used Citroens to cover horse racing as they were the only cars capable of mounting a camera on the roof and keeping a steady ride alongside the track! Came across this lovely ex-Beatle owned Radford Cooper S this week on a Mini forum, having missed the original auction date... http://www.mikeabbasclassiccars.co.uk/new_page_23.htm It was featured in the Cooper Register club mag a while back, the resident 'coachbuilt' Mini guru Steve Berkinshaw confirming it's pedigree. Talk about being lucky, he has a stash of genuine Radfords waiting to be restored and seems to know where all the one off spares are - he supplied the 'Benelite' spotlamp grille that came with my car, if I'd tried to find one myself it would have cost the same as full set of brand new alloys and tyres for a Mini! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 (edited) ....he swapped it for a simply beautiful (as new) dark green DS21 which he has used daily since in commuting to Bicester Parkway. I'll keep a lookout for that. It'll be the only DS there. Watching repeats of Top Gear on 'Dave' recently there was a piece on Citroen engineering, explaining why the Beeb always used Citroens to cover horse racing as they were the only cars capable of mounting a camera on the roof and keeping a steady ride alongside the track!.... The Beeb ran DS Safaris for years - they were a familiar sight at racecourses Edited September 23, 2014 by Horsetan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 The Beeb ran DS Safaris for years - they were a familiar sight at racecourses I remember Ken Colyer's trad jazz band used to fit into a beautiful grey DS Safari. The Beeb had a long tradition of using Humber Super Snipes for outside broadcasts, from 1940s "Monty" type military staff cars on into the later "box on box" Rootes body styles. It would make a great cameo in the corner of a layout. dhig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted September 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2014 I'm told that the CX Turbo 2s were turned out with significantly more power than the official figure of 168hp, so that sounds interesting. Also there was some bloke named Simon Greenwood who ran Maikonics, the only specialist CX tuning outfit, but who was so good at his job that the demand overwhelmed him. How about a nice 635? Actually they are nice cars! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted September 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2014 I bet you found the brakes *very* impressive! DSs are somewhat outside my budget, which is why I'm going for a CX. A restorer in Lancashire has offered me a choice of four CXs (including a GTi) which he is currently engaged in restoring and recommissioning. The photos he's shown me so far suggest an incredibly thorough job - new inner wings, etc. Fortuitously, there's also a Citroen specialist in Hitchin which offers body cavity wax / anti-rust treatment, as well as Andrew Brodie in Willesden for servicing and CX parts. At the end of the day, it's going to be a car which comes out every weekend, roams the M1, and lugs saddlery on rural roads and tracks, so the hydropneumatic suspension will be perfect for that type of thing. I haven't seen a CX for 20 or more years If you get one we need the piccies Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted September 23, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2014 My son's first ever picture of him 'driving' a car was when he was 15 months standing up on my knee holding onto the white plastic single spoke wheel of our DS19 mentioned here.There is another of him as a teenager knee deep pushing his mum's yeller 2CV ashore off the Holy Island causeway.... so he should have known better. (He is now 50 and into Dino engined cars: a Fiat spider, a Lancia Stratos + a long term project to re-construct a 246 spider to finance his OAP). But last year he partexed an MG BGT for an SM which the French dealer paid for his Channel ferry crossing to deliver/collect in Brittany. He brought the SM up to show us triumphantly and it fairly howled up over Hartside. Going back home to Oxford it lost all its hydraulics on the A1M and had to be piggy backed home. It only cost him £50 for a new seal at a Citroen specialist's somewhere in west London, nevertheless he swapped it for a simply beautiful (as new) dark green DS21 which he has used daily since in commuting to Bicester Parkway. dhig edit to add link I am not a fan of the 2CV and its ilk but there is something special about the DS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I haven't seen a CX for 20 or more years If you get one we need the piccies It's a pity that the later Series 2 cars didn't keep the original instrumentation - I rather liked the Series 1's rolling "bathroom scale" speedo and rev counter but am not sure if they would work in the Series 2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Referring to Nidge’s Mini photos. Is it just me but I much prefer Minis with the seams still in place...... My Mum had a Countryman in Fiesta Yellow and pale blue interior (I now remember that she had to order it). That Fiesta Yellow Cooper seems to have faded to a more greenish hue. Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Referring to Nidge’s Mini photos. Is it just me but I much prefer Minis with the seams still in place...... But de-seaming loses 40"sq of frontal area and means you can go much much faster Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I am not a fan of the 2CV and its ilk but there is something special about the DS Wife was a social worker at the time - which may justify her driving a yellow 2CV I've always been addicted to them (along with the corrugated iron Citroen van) ever since a Frenchman gave me a hair raising ride in one up and down the steps of a hilltop monastery in N France when I was a spotty youth biking along looking at roadside light railways in 1953. 2CVs were virtually new then and something of a rarity! dhig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now