Sport - £542, Tours, France

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:44 pm

This is the sort of thing I will be thinking of getting if the GTi Auto at the National isn't for me... When you haven't got a budget at all, it's academic, but €650... seems OK to me.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/CITROEN-BX-SPORT-AM8 ... dZViewItem

Apologies for not making it easy for others to read the link, hopefully it'll wrap around for most.

Way2go · Post by **Way2go** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:20 pm

Is that a broken Dash top?

Looks as if it's covered over with wide duct tape.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:42 pm

Being from Central France the wear and tear to the car will include sun damage - the description refers to paint issues and the dash top will also have suffered it seems. But it still wouldn't necessarily put me off...

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:08 pm

Phil, hitch a trailer up to that Ulysses of yours and go and get it! My dash has gone the same way unfortunately, though I'm starting to get replacement bits in , though all in various different shades!

I've never seen a BX Sport in the metal..

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:31 pm

Much as I'd like to Toddy boy!....

Can't.

BTW congrats about the news

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:35 am

Compared to the price a roadworthy BX goes for in France, this is low. I suspect this is because there's no mention in the ad of CT (equivalent of MOT) or sign of a tax or insurance sticker on the screen. Hence it's being sold as a spares or fixer's car. With CT it'd be going for 1500 Euros or more, the going rate for anything legal with 4 wheels. Ebay expectations may be different (like it is in the UK).

Gazoline magazine (which knocks any classic car mag in the UK into a cocked hat as most owners do their work themselves & are doing it for love not money) has a few BXs in its classifieds every month. Found it has an online sets of ads the other day.

This Sport has anthracite wheels (unlike the one pictured & road-tested in a BX Sport article I have from Autocar in 1985). It also has the two-tone chevron-pattern seats as later fitted to early GTis and DTRs: one of my favourite BX seat patterns, and more comfortable than later Z/GTi seats.

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:41 am

Being from Central France the wear and tear to the car will include sun damage

As it's Tours, towards the Atlantic end of the Loire Valley, that's nowhere near as central or as hot as it gets further South and East.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:53 am

Fair do's. But it is 23 yrs old and the sun is a little hotter there than here (usually! - I lived near there for a short time)... either way, it's a rare beast and interesting to see the price isn't sky-high (for France)...

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:58 am

I noticed the wheels, but for a set of silver GTi or Ph.1 16v alloys and it's be back to that 'original' look. Unless I'm being dumb, the ad mentions CT: Date du Contrôle Technique: Sep 2007 Date expiration (although the seller uses the one about warranty) would be Sep 2009 . It isn't legal AFAIK to sell a car as having a legit CT if there's only 6 months left on it (they last 2 yrs, as you know). So this still has a current CT.

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:31 am

My apologies - was expecting to see that info in the right-hand column on the data section, though quite why I'm not sure. As you say, CT lasts 2 years so it's definitely still road-legal.

As for the temperature, well I know it gets hot enough even just south of Normandy for that delicious feeling in the evening after a sunny day: you put your hand up to a stone wall and feel it radiating heat back at you. But it certainly ain't as hot as it gets further south - the sort of area where CXs and GSs remain rot-free (and where some get snapped up for sale/export at fancy prices).

jonathan_dyane · Post by **jonathan_dyane** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:40 am

God, that is gorgeous! But surely at that price it must have some fundamental flaw...

stuart_hedges · Post by **stuart_hedges** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:02 pm

Philip Chidlow wrote:Apologies for not making it easy for others to read the link, hopefully it'll wrap around for most. [/size]

Wouldn't it have been easier to just wrap the link than type all that?

teh ad wrote:JE M'EN SEPARE CAR MA FEMME NE PEUT PAS LA CONDUIRE.

That's strangely bathetic!

As others have said the price is very low... cars generally hold their value much better over there.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:09 pm

stuart_hedges wrote:
Philip Chidlow wrote:Apologies for not making it easy for others to read the link, hopefully it'll wrap around for most.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just wrap the link than type all that?

Yes, but that wasn't the point. I had an attack of disobedience... I apologise for any suffering I may have caused.

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:18 pm

Looked at BX bids on ebay.fr yesterday. There were 62 BX entries, less than 10% of which had ANY bids. Most are even lower than 650 euros. Looks like it's the last resort when it comes to selling a BX. There is one 1993 BX Cottage break for which a garage is asking 5,500 Euros: a lot of money to pay for a chintz interior!

stuart_hedges · Post by **stuart_hedges** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 3:26 pm

Philip Chidlow wrote:
stuart_hedges wrote:
Philip Chidlow wrote:Apologies for not making it easy for others to read the link, hopefully it'll wrap around for most.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just wrap the link than type all that?
Yes, but that wasn't the point. I had an attack of disobedience... I apologise for any suffering I may have caused.

Firefox 3.0 wraps links around so I don't care any more, nyer nyer nyer nyer nyer!It still looks messy though

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