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:cheesy: Well if you're offering a 55 Chevy I'll definitely be back! Seriously? I was very happy with my 406 (as is the new owner, and rightly so) but for physical reasons it wasn't suitable for regular use as our main (indeed only) car. With the purchase of a big 4x4 for wife-carrying duties I coul...

Well, thank you all for the welcomes. And now it's all over. At the beginning of May I picked up the replacement, a 1999 Chevy Blazer 4x4 (got one in your SUV collection, Alberto? :wink: ) which is much easier for my wife to get in and out of. On the same day (Bank Holiday Sunday) I picked up a 1986...

Hi Alberto... On the model front then: all my life really, I've collected model cars, starting with the assortment of Corgi/Dinky/Matchbox that my parents bought for their little fella. They really started something. I think I have something like 1500 or so now. :shock: Not all are diecasts, althoug...

Nice to see an early Metro next door too. Kelv. Well spotted sir! That was mine, I bought the 406 so I could retire the Metro from daily use. It wasn't accustomed to such activity, and was suffering. It had covered a gentle 16,500 miles in the 29 years between being exported new to Cyprus and me bu...

Doggy :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: In round figures? The roundest figure of the lot, zero. Two bedrooms, only one of which has a bed in it. The other is my office/model workshop, so is filled with desks, books and model cars. The rest of the house is something of a jumble as we only moved in six mo...

...And I'm delighted. I didn't imagine the 406 was either old enough or exciting enough to have a whole forum of its own, but it seems I was wrong. I look forward to enjoying my time here. My name's Eddy, I live in the Lake District (well on the edge of it, at least) and I own a 406. I bought it by ...