Peugeot 205 Blondemobile
Discussion
Breadvan72 said:
I would have preferred a 1.3 petrol GTX, but missed a couple of those, and they seem to go for a bit more money than the old smokers. The diesels are blessed with longevity, good mpg, and the virtues of low tech.
My mate has just yesterday put his very nice 205 GTX up for sale, I think he said £700.Edited by Breadvan72 on Saturday 30th March 21:39
gforceg said:
Is that your Beta hiding under the car cover?
Yup. The Lancia was due out to play today but has popped its clutch pedal linkage, again. The search for a replacement part goes on, via the scrappies and websites of Europe, with some help from PH, via another thread. We decided to throw Planet Earth a bone, and therefore left my Rangeyshed behind and blatted, en famille, in the 205 across London from Highbury to Epsom, to hang out with some friends at a location notionally connected with motoring but mainly inhabited by dull and snooty golfers. We shared a hilarious hoon with them on the M25 on the way back (they were in a very spiffy late 90s TVR with the customary bazillion BHP V8, so Planet Earth got screwed after all; with us in the 59 BHP smoketastic Pug Tug - what a contest!)
AKindSoul, I know a bloke who might be interested in the GTX (not me - I will stick with the oilburner), so please post a linky, and I will point him in its direction.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 31st March 20:58
Breadvan72 said:
We shared a hilarious hoon with them on the M25 on the way back (they were in a very spiffy late 90s TVR with the customary bazillion BHP V8, so Planet Earth got screwed after all; with us in the 59 BHP smoketastic Pug Tug - what a contest!)
Holiday larks all round!Edited by Breadvan72 on Sunday 31st March 20:58
Good luck getting the new bit for the Spyder. Is it simple enough to get one fabricated by a tame mech?
Dr Mike Oxgreen said:
I had a race with BreadVan in this little 205, on a private 4-lane motorway-style road yesterday. My TVR literally* couldn't out-accelerate it.
Sounds like a race on a private track (around a town) I had years ago in an over tyred Polo against a mate's blown XR4i. He couldn't get past either, due to laughing so hard at the Polo's bodyroll causing it to cock a leg in every bend 
Dr Mike, I hoped you noticed me whipping the dashboard of the poor ChuggaPug as we smoked and splurted and shaked and groaned our way past while you sauntered along at idle. It seemed apt, as we had just been at Epsom. Luckily, I know how to say "PUTAIN!" in the right way to add 10 BHP.
Oooh, er, CTi. Top money, but looks pretty spiffy:-
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C374095
There is a cheaper and rattier one going on Autotrader.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C374095
There is a cheaper and rattier one going on Autotrader.
Sorry to revive this thread but I'm off to look at one of these tomorrow, in a similar hue (or at least bits of it are, the boot is slightly more pinky).
It has PAS, which stops working intermittently. The seller claimed that the garage "told him to put some kind of additive in the fluid, and it made the steering work properly again, but then he left it for a week and it went heavy again".
What on earth is he on about? What causes PAS to not work on these other than low fluid/knackered pump/buggered rack?
It has PAS, which stops working intermittently. The seller claimed that the garage "told him to put some kind of additive in the fluid, and it made the steering work properly again, but then he left it for a week and it went heavy again".
What on earth is he on about? What causes PAS to not work on these other than low fluid/knackered pump/buggered rack?
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