RE: SOTW: Citroen BX GTI 8v
Discussion
zcacogp said:
tinkertaylor said:
love it, my fav SOTW i think!
I agree. Top bit of tin. How complex was the suspension? Was it genuinely a problem to maintain, or was that just a myth that was assisted by Citroen main dealers? How feasible is DIY-maintenance?
Oli.
Great little cars. Very comfortable and nicely different.
Brilliant shed!
Strawman said:
I'd like a mint 16v version please, didn't LJK Setright love these?
I'm not sure. But the BX was a regular CAR Magazine Top 10 winner, in various forms. One year it was the BX19TRS that featured the suspension of the old BX 19GT that had been replaced by the this, the BX 19GTi and they opined that the GTi ride was more harsh and the GT setting used on the BX19TRS suited them and the comfortable, ground covering personality of the BX more.LJKS.
There you go stuck for ideas CAR Magazine, doing the 50 years of CAR stuff, how about bringing back the annual Top 10?
carinaman said:
Fantastic! 10 out of 10 from me.
Here's the advert from when the previous owner Dom in Glos. was selling it:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C301350
And here's the eBay listing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...
So with what it went for a few weeks ago, and what the current owner has spent on it that's about £1300?
I only know all that as I've been quite attracted to it for a while. Shame about that slight damage on the front NS wing.
Wasn't there a big Citroen rally recently? If taken there it may have found many likely buyers?
Top info that man!Here's the advert from when the previous owner Dom in Glos. was selling it:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C301350
And here's the eBay listing:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...
So with what it went for a few weeks ago, and what the current owner has spent on it that's about £1300?
I only know all that as I've been quite attracted to it for a while. Shame about that slight damage on the front NS wing.
Wasn't there a big Citroen rally recently? If taken there it may have found many likely buyers?
Escy said:
I've spotted a sub 1k car i'm going to see in about an hours time. I won't post what it is yet but if it all checks out it'll be one of the best shed bargains ever and you'll wish you'd gone with it instead of a shonky old BX. Watch this space....
...i've seen that car already, its rubbish...I had a BX turbo diesel estate in slate grey!!! It was a company car and specc'd up to the eyeballs, amazingly quick but didn't go around corners, I recall having a few tussles with the local XR3i owners and putting them to shame.
Also did the San Remo rally one year in it, 3000 miles in 2 weeks could go anywhere with that suspension, although when I got home it needed one hell of a service (into the 1000's)
Happy days
Also did the San Remo rally one year in it, 3000 miles in 2 weeks could go anywhere with that suspension, although when I got home it needed one hell of a service (into the 1000's)
Happy days
The BX brings back fond, fond memories of childhood. By Dad had a B-reg ('85?) from new. 1.6 as I recall, in metallic gold. Wow. It must've been pre-facelift if that article is to be believed, with the astonishingly French speedo.
Yeah, I remember my mum more than once shouting at him for the speed he took sleeping policemen at...whump-whump.
I never realised, but he told me only the other day that he loved it so much he kept it until it had done 190k miles. He did all work on it himself, too.
Yeah, I remember my mum more than once shouting at him for the speed he took sleeping policemen at...whump-whump.
I never realised, but he told me only the other day that he loved it so much he kept it until it had done 190k miles. He did all work on it himself, too.
spookalilly said:
The BX brings back fond, fond memories of childhood. By Dad had a B-reg ('85?) from new. 1.6 as I recall, in metallic gold. Wow. It must've been pre-facelift if that article is to be believed, with the astonishingly French speedo.
Yeah, I remember my mum more than once shouting at him for the speed he took sleeping policemen at...whump-whump.
I never realised, but he told me only the other day that he loved it so much he kept it until it had done 190k miles. He did all work on it himself, too.
Yes, my first BX (a 14RE) had the cylinder speedo. Later BXes from about 85/86 onwards didn't have it.Yeah, I remember my mum more than once shouting at him for the speed he took sleeping policemen at...whump-whump.
I never realised, but he told me only the other day that he loved it so much he kept it until it had done 190k miles. He did all work on it himself, too.
It's exactly the same one that was found in the GS/GSA that preceded it
In the early 90's a work mate had one of these and each night we'd finish work and hit the A1 North home.
I had a Manta GTE at the time and we'd both hit the ton going up the road. Now unfortunately he'd lost an arm in a motorbike accident a few years earlier and was a smoker. So to my amazement one night I'm following him up the A1 and he's smoking with his arm through the sunroof, flicking out the ash at 100, just proved how stable the BX was as there certainly wasn't a hand on the wheel!
I had a Manta GTE at the time and we'd both hit the ton going up the road. Now unfortunately he'd lost an arm in a motorbike accident a few years earlier and was a smoker. So to my amazement one night I'm following him up the A1 and he's smoking with his arm through the sunroof, flicking out the ash at 100, just proved how stable the BX was as there certainly wasn't a hand on the wheel!
Domf said:
In the early 90's a work mate had one of these and each night we'd finish work and hit the A1 North home.
I had a Manta GTE at the time and we'd both hit the ton going up the road. Now unfortunately he'd lost an arm in a motorbike accident a few years earlier and was a smoker. So to my amazement one night I'm following him up the A1 and he's smoking with his arm through the sunroof, flicking out the ash at 100, just proved how stable the BX was as there certainly wasn't a hand on the wheel!
...2 words can explain this, trouser snakeI had a Manta GTE at the time and we'd both hit the ton going up the road. Now unfortunately he'd lost an arm in a motorbike accident a few years earlier and was a smoker. So to my amazement one night I'm following him up the A1 and he's smoking with his arm through the sunroof, flicking out the ash at 100, just proved how stable the BX was as there certainly wasn't a hand on the wheel!
Great shed ! I had a white 16v one of these back in the mid '90s . It was fast , comfy, very well equipped for the time and something "different". I loved it - though I loved it rather less when the suspension sprang a leak and left me stranded a couple of hundred miles from home and loved it even less when it burst into flames on the M40 one Monday morning in the rush hour....
T1berious said:
^this^
We recently did 10K on two sofas and that was with a decent discount...
http://www.arflex.it/en/prodotti/divani/455/navigl...
We recently did 10K on two sofas and that was with a decent discount...
http://www.arflex.it/en/prodotti/divani/455/navigl...
Always wanted one of these, my dad had a 1.4 preview (IIRC) in red with a chevron style seat pattern and a single spoke steering wheel.
Why is it that twice in a row, shed has posted the car I've been thinking about I've just sold a car so I was looking for something 80s to fill the void!
Why is it that twice in a row, shed has posted the car I've been thinking about
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