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dadie11 |
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Joined: Jul 29 2016
Member No: #2724
Location: Castleford, West Yorkshire |
Good afternoon, I am David Crawford. I recently moved here to Castleford, West Yorkshire from Bournemouth, in November, 2016. Curiously, there are some violins playing on Classic FM in t'background...(there are (is?) (an)other similar stations available, I believe…) to lend a suitably sombre tone... My father, whom I met but on a handful of occasions - but that, as they say, is another story - was a highly esteemed Engineer in the R.A.F., working on the 'V' bombers; so I think, with all due modesty, that I have inherited some of his engineering genes. He was a SAAB man, and from an engineering standpoint, would try extoll their virtues; but it all fell on deaf ears, they were for the middle-aged...or even elderly! Being short of funds in the late seventies, a Riley RMF and then an MGB, was all I could manage at the time. I always hankered after a DS, having seen one when I were a lad in the sixties on the farm in Devon. I would like to think that he would have thoroughly enjoyed my remarkable C6...une ’Grise’, en effet, which is now gracing the road outside. Externally, virtually blemish-free - just a tanner-sized chip on the bonnet, which will be attended to shortly. As will the interior, which, whilst not tired, just lacks a little TLC - the front seat-belts, in particular. She’s just cracked the 100km point, which was marked with a new drive belt from B&L in Welwyn. 500 and summat-odd quid. The A/con was rebuilt, (not by B&L)...£1100. Gulp! She is my second '6'; the first being an '07, 2.7 'Exclusive' in Iron Grey with a cream interior, which I bought from David Nolan in Hamble from the proceeds of the sale of my flat in Bournemouth in July, 2016, following the death of my sorely missed wife of thirty-one years, earlier in the year. I had a couple of Xantias in the early ‘noughties’ which introduced me to the chevron marque; they continued the Gallic theme from a number of thoroughly enjoyable little Renaults. I have a lovely little MB C200 from 1998, which is ‘sorned’ at the moment and is a great little runaround...trouble is...‘La Grise’ is a hard act to follow. Que faire? |
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Hattershaun |
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Joined: Dec 19 2010
Member No: #320
Location: Bedfordshire, UK |
Welcome David, may your C6 give you much pleasure. I've had a few C6 over the years (and many other Citroens) and love them to bits. |
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Trainman |
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Member No: #86
Location: Penwortham |
David, it good to know you're finally sorted, just as a point of interest, given your father's experience, There's a Victor tanker on display at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington and, of course, there's the Vulcan at Doncaster. |
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