Cheap CX on ebay, not too far from here....

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:45 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Citroen-CX-2-2-TR ... dZViewItem

Not my cup of tea (no disrespect intended) but I think there`s a few fans on here?

ken newbold · Post by **ken newbold** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:49 pm

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:37 pm

I`m not sure what you`re saying there Ken but is it fair to say you don`t like them? I`ve just spotted the `minor rust` in the inner rear arch btw

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tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:39 pm

It hasnt been loved has it! have u seen the size of that hole! Still cant belive people dont wash and hoover cars before they take pictures!

ken newbold · Post by **ken newbold** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:44 pm

Tim, you just DON'T wash a CX, in fact you try to keep it as far from water as possible.

It's not that I dont like them, I really think the CX is one of the most beautifull cars ever designed, absolute classic. Much nicer looking than the DS.

There I've said it now, I'll probably get shot with 5h1t by the purists for saying it.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:59 pm

I agree Ken, I think the CX is one of the most beautiful looking cars ever created. The DS is funky and wierd, but difficult to call pretty.

If I could afford to pay £3-5000 on a restoration project - a CX would be my choice. Absolutely lovely.

This one could be made to look good but it's probably too far gone to be worth it.

BTW does anybody remember a French film 'Betty Blue' (as it was called for the UK release). Apart from being a stunning film, there's a DS getting vandalised (not nice) and a CX turbo in a lovely red (nice) that's a real head-turner. Watch the film and don't worry - there's not much sex in it (

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mnde · Post by **mnde** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:03 pm

I also LOVE the look of the CX, especially a Mk1.

A DS doesn't really move me in the same way it does other Citroenists. I'm more of a potential CX owner than I am a D owner.

But bloody hell, don't they rust...

Mark.

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:05 pm

I adore CX's, I've owned about 12 at the last count. Probably the best car citroen ever made (IMHO and close cos the A-series are pretty damn good too)

This one is a shed, if he cant be bothered to clean it out to try and sell it he desreves not too and i cant believe that he is still driving it around with dodgy rear arm bearings and holes that big in the car.

I made a mistake early in my CX owning career (about 1998-2000) and owned a totally lovely 1985 Series2 Gti Turbo 1 car, its spoilt me silly and virtually nothing has ever lived up to it.

Drive one once before you die, and whats more drive it hard, you will be converted.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:07 pm

Stinkwheel, help me source one later this year, yes?

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:55 pm

I agree the CX is alovely car, but its not a home mechanics ideal choice!,

I remember MANY years ago at a caravan park in Derby there was a CX left abandoned, I think it was a T reg and a 2400 Pallas but I may be wrong it, was a dark red and had wolfrace chrome mag wheels. I played in for hours, pretending to drive, sadly so did other kids and they wrecked it!

It was towed away to a house about 15 miles away where the engine was removed, I rememvbr seeing it with no bonnet etc on the way to the caravan park which we visited regularly, our little 4 berth being towed easily by my dads 1984 19RD! Oh happy days!

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:10 am

tim leech wrote:I agree the CX is a lovely car, but its not a home mechanics ideal choice!

Why not? The Hydraulics are no more complex than a BX with PAS, and the engines are actually rather nice to work on (pushrods rather than OHC for the majority of them).

The only real problem with them is the galloping rot. I'm still welding my MK1 TRD turbo like an idiot, and as soon as it's structurally sound, it's going to get the sills and floor zinc-sprayed and waxoyled to within an inch of it's life!

Spectacular car to drive though.

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:25 am

Phillip, anything you need to know just ask, if i cant help i know people who can

CX saloons are the prettiest car ever made.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:38 am

Thanks, Stinkwheel. Just need a couple of grand now... but I will get a CX one day...

mnde · Post by **mnde** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:48 am

I went to the CCC CX Rally in Little Horwood last year, so I have lots of gorgeous pics on my computer at home.

I once took my friend's CX Mk1 GTi to an indicated 110 MPH on the motorway. A cracking drive... and you've just got to love that gorgeous instrument panel... Sadly that car was crushed IN-TOTO by its new owner, who'd agreed to buy it off my mate at a rally, after looking over it and driving it around, for £100ish to do up as a wedding car, then later complained it needed too much doing to it, and that we'd sold him a lemon, and accused me of twonking it down the motorway when we passed him on the way back from the rally. When actually I was following my mate at the time who was driving a GSA C-matic, so we can't have been doing more than 70-80.

And consider the fact that we'd later driven the car down to him near the South East coast. And consider that my mate had only had in mind a price of £50, but this guy, after looking over it, actually offered more for it.

Arsehole

We would have had it back off him if we'd realised it had sat abandoned, almost mint interior and all, and that he'd had enough of it and wanted rid. Never forgiven him for that. I mean, it had a slipping clutch and had rusty longerons and maybe a tiny bit frilly round the edges. But bloody hell, he didn't even phone to ask if we wanted it back. And we would have bloody gone and collected it and all, after having delivered it to him on a plate...

Grr.

Mark.

Stinkwheel · Post by **Stinkwheel** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:39 pm

CX's suffered that 'cheap banger' tag that people give to cars when they are old and not yet 'classic' many were killed off this way and its now that good ones are scarce that prices have gone silly for really good ones. Cheap good ones can still be had but you will find that making it excellent will be what costs.

I sold a Series 1 Prestige a few months back for 250 quid and it was really very solid and tidy, just needed a few silly jobs doing but without test it was next to worthless.