RE: Shed of the Week: Citroen AX 106 GTI
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Having seen the owner post I think this is a tremendous little shed.
A weekend mopping the paint to bring it back to a shiny red (neglected reds usually come up a treat) few quids worth of rattle cans to sort the bonnet. Remove comedy exhaust.
Strip interior, chuck £500 at it for suspension/general mechanical improvements where needed and this will be ALOT of fun on track for beer money.
A weekend mopping the paint to bring it back to a shiny red (neglected reds usually come up a treat) few quids worth of rattle cans to sort the bonnet. Remove comedy exhaust.
Strip interior, chuck £500 at it for suspension/general mechanical improvements where needed and this will be ALOT of fun on track for beer money.
I only have happy AX memories bought a 1995 debut model for £110 to smash holes in the bonnet and practice fibreglass repair skills. The result was worse looking than this shed. I drove that car for 2.5 years before it was converted to a camper van for a more ambitious trip and it exploded impressively ;-)
Just saying I'm an engineer doesn't necessarily mean one can build modified cars to any level of quality and reliability. An engineer can be someone who changes a light bulb in reality or (more likely) spends all day on a computer. But good on you for having a go just for the fun of it - would you include it on your CV?
Get rid of the stack, and I suspect you could have hours of fun with this, surprising people at both traffic lights and on track. 118 bhp in what, all of 700 kg? Almost identical to a S1 Elise, and up there with the likes of a Focus ST or Golf GTI in terms of power-to-weight. And the superficially tatty exterior would be a plus (ridiculous stack exhaust aside)
I love it. I'd buy this right now if I didn't already have one more vehicle than I have space for...
I love it. I'd buy this right now if I didn't already have one more vehicle than I have space for...
Edited by Limpet on Friday 29th June 11:52
PoopahScoopah said:
The advert should actually say
"Bad points - the entire f
king thing!"
I like AXs. I like small French hatches. I also like sleepers and can appreciate certain tatty charm and odd styles. But this one here............................well it's just gash, isn't it?!
We need to see past he gashness, as I said earlier, set to over a weekend and you could transform it so you dont look such a willy, that exhaust, and I get its sport of aping the Bōsōzoku thing from Japan, but it makes it look like a childs trike with a handle for parents to steer it. couple of litres of paint, a cheap compressor and crack on, even rattle cans, Nato green perhaps ? or just white, at the moment it just detracts from what is probably a great fun little car."Bad points - the entire f
king thing!"I like AXs. I like small French hatches. I also like sleepers and can appreciate certain tatty charm and odd styles. But this one here............................well it's just gash, isn't it?!
OK. Maybe my earlier post was a bit of a knee jerk reaction to it. But my comments were based on the car is it is rather than any potential, to be fair.
So whilst my criticism was of the car in it's For Sale condition, I can agree that underneath there is a fun little sleeper lurking. I'd have to take off the exhaust, the black tape, have matching steelies, and possibly polish the paintwork (not to try and tart it up but just to remove the polished flag effect and Scotland motif, and maybe do something about the bonnet.
vw_stu said:
so for everyone's info (I'm the owner):
- if you don't "get" this car you obviously have a sense of humour failure
I wouldn't say I've a sense of humour failure, and I'm usually very open minded to all sorts of stuff in the big wide car world. I guess my taste in silly/sleeper type stuff is just a little less overt than this. - if you don't "get" this car you obviously have a sense of humour failure
So whilst my criticism was of the car in it's For Sale condition, I can agree that underneath there is a fun little sleeper lurking. I'd have to take off the exhaust, the black tape, have matching steelies, and possibly polish the paintwork (not to try and tart it up but just to remove the polished flag effect and Scotland motif, and maybe do something about the bonnet.
I like it!
It's clearly been put together with a) a degree of skill and b) a large dose of humour and given it's done a stag event, kinda makes sense as that seems to be the done thing these days... so on that basis, fair play!
As for purchasing, granted it doesn't appeal in its current guise... my OCD couldn't cope but as some sensible people have said, it wouldn't take much to return it to nigh on standard, granny spec in appearance with wheel trims so you could spend your days in a tiny, cheap commuter whilst having a laugh in the process or indeed, few more tweaks and it'd probably a bit of a force to be reckoned with on the track.
I think people are thinking too far in to this... old Charlie boy there getting all hot and bothered because he wouldn't chose it over the new A5 he's got on order.
It's a laugh, something some people appear to be missing from life.
It's clearly been put together with a) a degree of skill and b) a large dose of humour and given it's done a stag event, kinda makes sense as that seems to be the done thing these days... so on that basis, fair play!
As for purchasing, granted it doesn't appeal in its current guise... my OCD couldn't cope but as some sensible people have said, it wouldn't take much to return it to nigh on standard, granny spec in appearance with wheel trims so you could spend your days in a tiny, cheap commuter whilst having a laugh in the process or indeed, few more tweaks and it'd probably a bit of a force to be reckoned with on the track.
I think people are thinking too far in to this... old Charlie boy there getting all hot and bothered because he wouldn't chose it over the new A5 he's got on order.
It's a laugh, something some people appear to be missing from life.
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