Cheap CX on ebay, not too far from here....

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:56 pm

Similarly, the rather interesting MK1 I have was a freebie. The previous owner was going to have it crushed until I made the mad dash up to go and collect it!

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:06 pm

Yes we know where yours came from

Id have bitten his arm off as i was actually trying to buy the car only 6 weeks previous.

stuart_hedges · Post by **stuart_hedges** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:21 pm

Ken:

Tim, you just DON'T wash a CX, in fact you try to keep it as far from water as possible.

Mine leaked something rotten through the rear windscreen - I used to keep it under a flyover, in fact, in an attempt to keep the rain off it! It was rusty, had dreadful electrics, drank like a fish, and was unreliable.

And I loved every second I spent with it. I even liked working on it - except that every time I did, I'd find more rust! That's a car I'd own again, if I had the money.

My BX is a far superior car for the use it's getting, but I just wish it had a C-matic box, and DIRAVI steering...... and those looks. Awesome.

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:28 pm

Stinkwheel wrote:Id have bitten his arm off as i was actually trying to buy the car only 6 weeks previous.

Now that I didn't know.

And I wasn't trying to gloat... it was more the amazement that there was even the question of it being crushed. Aparently it was to "deny the CCC of a source of parts....."

mnde · Post by **mnde** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:29 pm

While I was driving the LHD BX Mk1 back from Swindon, for some un-accountable reason, I kept getting the urge to drive it C-matic style, without using the clutch pedal...

I wonder what a BX C-matic would have been like had they made one...? Surely they would have had to have given it 4 cogs to play with though instead of a measley 3.

Yeah, same as a GS, you don't wash a CX. I went to view a GS that had been outside for some time, and I just imagined what all that accumulated leaf and crap debris under the edges of the bonnet, in the bulkhead drain and collected in every other bloody crevice would do when combined with copious amounts of water from a jetwash! Cos that's the urge isn't it - you buy a mucky car that's been standing and immediately douse it with gallons of soapy water to clean it all off....

Mark.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:12 pm

I guess this is going well off topic (BX Spotting) but (if anybody knows what I'm on about) I wonder, does Paul Johnson still do CXs or is it all XMs and C5s now?

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:20 pm

It is going rather off topic... so far in fact that I've just registered CXclub.co.uk, and as soon as I can work out how to put a PHPbb on my server....

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:48 pm

paul is all XM's now.

And David, excellent move

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:53 pm

If you have planty of money you could try Roger Bradford's CX centre. Nice cars, proper prices. He is a top CX man though if a little eccentric

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:24 pm

There is, or was, a place in Telford that used to have quite a few knocking about. They were on a small industrial estate fairly close to the town centre but last time I visited (with my previous job) they were behind an Esso station on a roundabout near to IronBridge.