Here are some pictures of my first A series in five years or so. Those of you who remember me from the early 90s won't be at all surprised by how scruffy this is ...







This is the reason I was asking about fitting a new windscreen surround.


Could do with some new doors too.


And a new boot floor.


Still, at least the back seat is good.


It's mechanically sound - I've rebuilt the engine with new piston rings since I bought it, and it's had new tyres and shock absorbers all round. The chassis is good too, it's just the cab that lets it down. Anyway, it's nice to be back in an A series again and at least I should be a better welder by the time I've done it all!

Here's a shot of my previous interesting Citroens. The Dyane went for scrap, but the H van is still around somewhere abroad.

Wow! That's some resto. job there, Gold Star for saving it

This one?

Wow! Where did you find that? That's the very one, and it doesn't look very different from when I sold it.

It had been living with a friend in Norfolk over last summer. I *think* it's been sold again? Max and I helped paint certain bits of it one day in June last year. I didn't realise it had once belonged to you.

Dave Burdett accidentally bought it off ebay, as one does. My cousin was getting married in Greece and when I saw the van in Dave's garden I thought it would be great to buy it, convert it to a camper and drive it off to Greece full of friends and relations. If only it hadn't been used as a chicken shed for three thousand years after the engine had died it might actually have happened. As it was, Dave and I put in a lot of work to get it through an MOT and get a UK reg on it: lots of welding (including fabricating new box sections for the bit under the seats), an engine rebuild with new sleeves and pistons (someone had replaced the piston rings with 2CV ones cut in half which had worn big grooves into the cylinder liners), new brake pipe and other stuff. We also insulated it and lined it out, then I drove it back home and it all faltered a bit. I lost my parking space and didn't have the time to work on it any more, so it had to go.
Nice to see it again, though. Where did it end up?