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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 9:09:23 GMT
I heard it inside a pale blue E Class many times.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 15, 2020 9:25:38 GMT
Far more likely....
And even more likely inside and outside a bashed black fiat punto that lives at our house....
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Post by Avant on May 15, 2020 12:57:45 GMT
My favourite was OGO 2L (London, 1973).
Genuinely issued and not suppressed by whatever the DVLA equivalent was in those days. I think it was on an Aston Martin, but Car Check says it isn'lt a valid number now.
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Post by EspadaIII on May 15, 2020 13:09:45 GMT
In Bury, Lancashire the local suffix was EN. The plate was issued PEN 1S. I believe it was withdrawn when someone tried to swap it onto another car.
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Post by WDB on May 15, 2020 13:22:19 GMT
I'm sure I saw OBO 110X once. On a black Range Rover Sport when it passed me on the M40 some years ago. |
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 13:36:59 GMT
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Post by WDB on May 19, 2020 13:48:55 GMT
22,000 miles in 43 years?
But anyway, yes, I love the CX. The first one I saw, in 1976, was a kind of orangy-bronze and it looked like something from the future. This when its British competitor was a Rover 2000, which looked like something from Dixon of Dock Green.
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Post by Humph on May 19, 2020 15:36:31 GMT
Nearly 40 years ago, though it doesn't feel like that long, I was living and working in Italy. The office was in Florence and my boss, well, technically, my boss's boss, was a part Italian, part New York American Jewish guy who was oddly like Inspector Clouseau in his appearance and demeanour.
He had one of those Citroens, and one night we had all been out entertaining, or being entertained, or something like that anyway, at a posh restaurant somewhere in the Tuscan hills.
He drove us there and back, but the return journey was made the more interesting by the effects of the considerable quantity of wine he'd consumed during the course of the evening.
At one corner he completely missed the turn and the car shot across a recently ploughed field until he found an exit and got it back on the road. All the while never faltering from his verbal dissemination of the evenings conversation.
Have to say, from the back seat anyway, that Citroen suspension coped very well with a ploughed field at approximately 50mph.
The following morning, no one dared to mention the mud all over his car.
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Post by WDB on May 19, 2020 17:21:37 GMT
Not the bodily fluid I’d have been most concerned about in those circumstances. 😅 |
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Post by tyrednexited on May 19, 2020 18:43:09 GMT
Not the bodily fluid I’d have been most concerned about in those circumstances. 😅 ...I think I'd be very concerned about it under almost any circumstance, especially from my boss.....  |
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Post by Humph on May 19, 2020 20:10:24 GMT
One day, the same boss, ( the bloke with the Citroen ) called me in to his office to tell me to go and do something or other. He had a habit of of rolling a biro pen between his hands, almost in a position of prayer. He was a fearsome character, ex Iraeli army something important apparently, and no one would ever question him ( it was 40 years ago )
Anyway, so this day he's telling me to go and sort something out at one of the factories, rolling this pen back and forth between his hands. I'm sitting opposite him across his desk and I can see that the pen is leaking ink all over his hands.
I'm too in awe to mention it, but eventually he takes his hands and rubs them over his face and grey hair, distributing copious quantities of ink as he goes.
So, I'm trying so hard not to laugh, but fear wins out and I leave.
I'm holding on to the wall outside his office trying to get myself back together when I'm spotted by my immediate boss, who asks why I'm looking a bit odd.
I managed to signal him to look through the glass partition...
That day ended trickily...
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Post by EspadaIII on May 19, 2020 20:12:48 GMT
>>> Have to say, from the back seat anyway, that Citroen suspension coped very well with a ploughed field at approximately 50mph.
precisely what M. Andre Citroen required...
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Post by dixinormus on May 19, 2020 21:48:51 GMT
Wasn’t that the brief for the 2CV Esp?!
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Post by WDB on May 20, 2020 10:20:19 GMT
...and that was in 1948 (or whenever) so they had pretty well nailed it by the time Humph climbed aboard that seminal CX.
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Post by Humph on May 20, 2020 10:30:04 GMT
Must have been around '82 ish
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