Hi Kieran,
Yes, there's a bit of confusion around the ownership which I will clear up for you;
The car was originally in Carlisle in England, and was brought over here by a guy from Derry, I can't remember his name but Robert probably will.
Robert then acquired it from that fella, which you see in the beginnings of this thread. Some 6, 8 months later, I bought it from Robert in the summer of 2010.
While working in Belfast one night in late January 2011, the car developed the dreaded hydraulic leak over the rear subframe. I had neither the time nor the tools to sort it so I had the AA deliver it to Willie Johnston in Cavan (you've probably heard of him
).
Anyway, due to work and personal circumstances I was unable to go and get it and the car lay down there for several months (along with my other S1 XM but that's another story).
Finally, Robert and I spoke and he said that he was interested in re-acquiring DEG, so we did a deal where in exchange for another car, I traded DEG and my other diesel S2 to him (for spares), Robert then put it back on the road and sold it to Alan, which is where you then come in
So the registration documents would have still been in my name as it never really passed back in to Robert's ownership as it was going straight to Alan.
Speaking of which, I recently found some documents and paperwork for it which I'd been searching for for a couple of years, if you PM me your address I'll throw them down to you, or perhaps at one of the meets / events?
I really loved that car and I was gutted I had to let it go, just circumstances. It was honestly the nicest, softest riding suspension of any XM I've ever driven, beautiful colour, and has the fantastic S1 looks with such a sweet 2.1 manual, ahaaaa good times.
You better bloody look after it or I'll be down there!
Not many pics of it in my ownership that I can find, but a couple from here:
Spotted by Luke Parked in the snow while I was working:
At 2am on a Monday morning outside the Grand Canal theatre in Dublin - Long story that one, I was just bored one night about 11:30 so decided I'd take a drive from Belfast to Dublin for the craic, had a great night driving round random places that you can't go during the day, pity about the crap phone shots
Some videos of driving around that night too but can't find them, will have another look.
Yes, I'm the new XMinations columnist, I await the hate mail
Ciarán