THE X RALLY - 15th April 2012.

[Dieselman]

I still haven't washed the car and it's raining now.

What time is kick off tomorrow?

[citroenxm]

dont worry.. will.. neither of our cars.. my xantia and mates 2.1 td exclusive arent washed either.. im sure yurs will be shiny will!!

[Dieselman]

It hasn't had a wash since about September and was covered in wood dust from cutting wood in the garage, last time I took it out it rained, so it's not looking fantastic.

I'll go and chance a wash soon.

[Duke]

What time is kick off tomorrow?

Arrival from 9:30am please Will. Most people seem to be aiming for a 10-10:30am ish arrival...

[Dieselman]

Crickey, that's a bit early. I was hoping to wash and polish the car first.

I'll try..

[Ciaran]

Just make sure you all take plenty of pics

[Dieselman]

Camera batteries on charge, but Duke is the photo-man really.

[robert_e_smart]

Yes pictures and rally reports very much welcome!

[Duke]

Thanks very much to everyone that came along today as we had an excellent turnout of just over 80 cars...

The attendance was mostly BX's however the Xantia's were very close behind!

There was a good amount of XMs too but with a small number of S1s unfortunately. C6s were in plentiful supply and lots of other "Modern C's" including a couple of C4s, Picasso, ZX etc.

The totals according to the sign in list are below:

BX - 26
Xantia - 19
XM - 13
CX - 9
Others - 16

Good to see everyone again and chat Citroen's - won't name names as I will miss people out as there was a lot of people there today!

Prize-wise for Xantia, Jason won Best Xantia with his Series 1 3.0 V6 24v that used to be Roger's old car. I'm sure Roger would be pleased to see it looking like it was today as Jason put a huge effort into it and it certainly did show. 2nd prize for Xantia was Barry's 3.0 V6 Activa (Manual!) - what a car. Third prize was awarded to Mark's amazing 1.9TD SX white Xantia.

For CX, first prize for best CX Was Jon's blue Athena (he was there at 9am polishing it!). Second was Andrew's lovely low mileage Delage Red Safari, and third prize was to the well known Series 1 Prestige (HKY) that belongs to Dave.

XM-wise was a very tight competition however Matthew's beautiful gold Series 1 3.0 V6 XM got the prize for Best XM. Close behind was Darren's very beautifully modified Series 2 3.0 24V in a lovely shade of blue with wheels that really set it off nice. The CX Bonnet vent was a particularly lovely touch... Third prize was to Will's 2.1 SD that really is a nice car...

The only way to stop Tim winning first and second prize for Best BXs was to have him help judge the cars, and thus first prize went to John's (?) 19TGD that is a lovely car, second to Gary with his Meteor (he would have got first if his Meteor sticker wasn't faded!), and third prize to Paul's very clean Silver TGD.

All in all, there was some very nice cars there indeed, of course there has to be a mention for Ian's Mark 1 BX Estate and for that car he won a nice bottle of beer. Apparently he doesn't drink though, but he said his wife does! Dave's CX is worth a mention though, as we could hear Will laughing rather loudly when he was taking it for a spin around the field... Fish and Chips twice please, Dave!

Going to sort of the photos I took now, which should be up soon. I saw the C6 owners copied Jason and I's idea of putting his Xantia infront the the house for some photos and then the C6 boys moved up there!

Thanks again all...

[Dieselman]

Going to sort of the photos I took now, which should be up soon. I saw the C6 owners copied Jason and I's idea of putting his Xantia infront the the house for some photos and then the C6 boys moved up there!

That's what we were laughing about, we were going to do a drive through just when they wanted to take pictures of their C6 lined up.

I'm glad you noticed...

It was great to meet up with people again and a good day in between dodging hail showers and rain, felt a bit chilly when the sun went in.
Special thanks go to Dave for the drive of his CX 2.5Td, it's very different to an XM.

I've only taken a few pictures and they won't be anywhere near as good as Franklins, but I'll get them up shortly.