Flippin' 'eck

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:54 pm

Now here's a nice one. Someone must know this chap!

VERY pricey, but it still represents a relatively good value car in my estimation. Nice to see a red that is, well, red!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1991J-CITROEN-BX1 ... dZViewItem

stuart_hedges · Post by **stuart_hedges** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:15 pm

Twelve hundred quid?!?!?!?!

<reads>

Ahhhh he knows Roger Bradford. That explains the price hysteria.

<reads more>

Yup. Lovely. I'm sure it's as nice as he says - and it's a lesson in how to write an ebay description (except for the font size) but I'm afraid there isn't a BX worth that price.

Six to seven hundred tops, imho.

It's a beautiful car, but the real world hasn't given BXs the prices we think they deserve.

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:19 pm

Its a very tidy car, looks like it came out of the brochure! But he thinks £1200 is 'troubled Xantia' money?? What planet is that on I wonder? Troubled Xantias fetch about £50 nowadays!

It is too expensive, but I disagree with Bodie here.....some BX's are worth the money. I sold one for £1k last year, and I'm sure there will be more for more.

djoptix · Post by **djoptix** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:14 am

WHY OH WHY CAN'T PEOPLE WRITE SMALLER ON EBAY

DON'T THEY KNOW MASSIVE TEXT JUST ANNOYS PEOPLE

UNLESS THEY'RE PLANNING ON SELLING IT TO A THREE YEAR OLD

Post by **docchevron** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:33 am

hhmm, smoked N/S/R light unit, green tint O/S/R light unit, being red, it should have red tint. tish tish, that knocks a grand straight off for me!

tom · Post by **tom** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:54 am

It is a very decent car but not worth more than half that. Roger Bradford has a lot to answer for. Would you buy a used car from one of his mates?

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:12 am

docchevron1472 wrote:hhmm, smoked N/S/R light unit, green tint O/S/R light unit, being red, it should have red tint. tish tish, that knocks a grand straight off for me!

A moment OT, but what different Mk2 Ph2 rear lights were available? I know of the 'grey' smoked and 'green' smoked. Were these mated to particular coloured cars? For instance did a silver car have the grey and a green car have the green for instance? But red? Handy to know as I seem to have a set of green 'spares' and greys on the TGS.

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:38 am

If he can get that then good luck, think its a few hundred quid ott!

Post by **docchevron** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:00 pm

tom wrote:It is a very decent car but not worth more than half that. Roger Bradford has a lot to answer for. Would you buy a used car from one of his mates?

In short.....no!
It's silly to think you can name check Mssr Bradford and suddenly a £2.50 grommet is worth £1000....

Philip, you are correct, smoked or tinted lights were fitted depending on body colour, tints available were, blue, green, red, and of course smoked. All you can get now is smoked. I'm not saying anymore on the subject since I'm starting to sound like Tim on wheeltrims...

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:18 pm

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:55 pm

djoptix wrote:MASSIVE TEXT JUST ANNOYS PEOPLE

AH. BUT IF YOU WRITE THE WHOLE EBAY AD LIKE THIS, INCLUDING ALL THE GOOD POINTS,
And then put the bad points in a really small font like this, in an almost unreadable colour, then maybe people will miss them

ebay makes me weep sometimes.

Ian_Fearn · Post by **Ian_Fearn** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:20 pm

I only paid 5 or 6 hundred quid for mine with full dealer history and 32k on the clock. Got to be at least as good, if not better than this one

stuart_hedges · Post by **stuart_hedges** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:04 am

Ian, you paid the right price. Don't get me wrong - I love BXs and I wish they were worth the big money. But they're not.

G's aren't there yet. And BXs are 20 years behind.

Sorry.

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:06 am

£950 it went for....

Bxaholic · Post by **Bxaholic** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:12 am

Got a sorned TZD est as good as that, £949 anyone?!