http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

You chaps seen that?

Yeah, I would imagine Mr Harris has been reading this thread and disagrees with my comments on the previous page.

I do get his point - from new, I would have always had a 1.9, but now I would buy on condition rather than engine type.

Just spent a good bit of time reading through this thread from start to current update. Definately some time well spent. Just fantastic frankly

Bit more of an update....spent the afternoon yesterday on Pugly's interior...it was a nice day and could rely on the sun to dry out any damp from the cleaning process.

Obviously a modern interior you can use stronger chemicals and wet vacs to do the seats but in a 24 year old 205 you risk damaging the plastics with strong cleaners like G101 and a wet vac will destroy the seat fabrics.

So armed with a solution of Autoglym Clean All (in a fairly week mix I might add) I set about giving everything a good clean up.

All the plastics were cleaned and then wiped over once dry with Auto Glym Silicone Pumpasol...all of the seats were cleaned with the same Clean All solution then once dry the leather parts were fed with Zaino Leather Treatment.

So now you can see that Pugly's interior is nearly as good as her outsides!

Looks great - although I would paint the throttle pedal, and get some new rubbers for the other two...

(desperately struggling to find fault with a perfect car!)

Wow that car is fantastic, and I take my hat off to you sir!!!

Loved these cars when they came out, I was 17/18 ish and I had access to my Dads 1300 Maestro, and it's great to see cars like this restored today absolutely brilliant

Stunning, what is the old lift up reverse like on the older cars.

Makes me want silver wheels again

This really is looking splendid.

Did you have the underbonnet stickers made, or are they still available? They look to be very good quality.

First post but long time lurker living in Jakarta, Indonesia for 5 years now and very settled there but there is always a faint call to return back home. It's threads like this that make me pine for my old white 1.9, F273 PEV if it's still around and slowly I'm building up reasons in my head to repatriate back to the UK. Second car after buying the family SUV I would have to buy a white 1.9 and return it to factory spec and condition as Nick has done here.
Cracking car and please realise that posts like this have major life changing results for some people.

Phil

That's why I have mine. Dad had a 1.6 SR when we lived out in Cairo, and he took me to the Peugeot Talbot garage in Wokingham to pick up an air conditioning kit to take back out to Egypt. While he was faffing with the parts department (who probably didn't understand that they made a 1.6 SR overseas instead of the 1.4 in the UK - I think it was a Simca engine?) I was wandering around, and the dealer let me sit in the brand new Phase 1 1.9 GTI.

I pestered my Dad for years to buy one (we had a Talbot Samba in the UK, so would visit the P-T garage regularly for servicing etc.) but he never did. Eventually when we moved back to the UK he bought a Primera for the now larger family, and I vowed to have one as my first car.

In the end I had a 1.4 GR as my second car, then the GTI was my 4th or 5th car. Had it 7 years now. Will never sell!