Following up a link on aussiefrogs I came across this ranwhenparked.net article which led me on to Dutch Citroen Club Forum

The original item that had caught my eye was about a Citroen enthusiast in England disposing of most of his collection. Foremost among these were his CXs. So it seemed a strange co-incidence when I also came across the Dutch Clubs plans.
For those who don't know, 2014 marks the 40th Anniversary of the launch of Citroens CX. This was the replacement for the twenty year old Dees and was a significant departure from it in appearance. To present the car to the motoring world Citroen shipped 28 pre-production CXs to the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. Here, over three weeks, they entertained 400 motoring journalists from around the world. They got to drive the different models over the Lapland countryside.
At the end of the three weeks Citroen chose 25 journalists to drive CXs back to Paris. A real test drive if ever there was one.
Members of the Dutch Citroen Club decided this year was a fitting one to plan a re-enactment. The only requirement was that to participate you needed a CX. We were already booked to visit Eire and were flying out of Dublin on the 25th August. Mentioning the event to my wife aroused her interest and on the Monday morning we visited our travel agent to see how difficult it would be to delay our return for around a fortnight.
With alteration of our bookings possible discussion then centred on a car. Shipping one of my CXs to Europe and back would cost at least $4000 so my wife agreed that buying a CX there for the Raid would be the best thing. So we are now back to where this started - an auction in King's Lynn that featured cars belonging to Patrick Rugg. Among these was a 1981 CX Super "Familiale" that had a lot of money spent on it around the turn of the millenium. It was described as being in near show state. More importantly it was within our price range - just!
So contact was made with the auctioneers and also Patrick to try to obtain more information on the car. Patrick was kind enough to reply to my emails and eventually ACA sent me some additional images of the car. It would have been helpful to have some of the underside of the car but that request fell on deaf ears. The auction consisted of some 160 lots and drew a crowd of 1700. On the day 80% of the lots sold and returned around 750,000 pounds - around $AU 1.5 mil.
Anglia Car Auctions Classic Auction 5th April 2014
Franklin Rugg posted a number of images, on various Citroen fora, taken at the auction.



On the next page are some of the images of the car I bid on! next page