I CAN HAZ RATZLUKE CX

[scooters]

Mrs S doesn't yet know it but I am planning the family holiday to the Black Sea coast - seems to fit in with the current austerity!...obviously there are alterior motives to this and I am in current negociations to purchace this baby:

 

 

OMG - RATZ LOOK CX SHITE and a Mk 1 to boot!

 

 

 

 

Check out the dent in the bumper

 

 

 

tis:

 

1983 Mk1 Citroen Cx Pallas, 2.0 105 bhp Fastback, Silver Grey with original herringbone interior, and black leather seat covers, manual 5 speed, sought after series 1 model with chrome bumpers and hub caps, revolving drum style clocks, electric windows, alarm with central locking, power steering (Diravi), radio cassette, winter tyres

 

LPG! with all the paperwork as well

 

Car is currently about 60 miles from Sofia....

 

May or July pick up - may well pressgang Mr Skizzer to help - spoke to Sam G the other day and he may be collecting some horrific communist era pile of shite around the same time so there could be a convoy home

[worldofceri]

That seems like a lot of trouble to go to acquire a ratty CX. I assume it's cheap compared to buying one locally. And will a Romanian LPG install will satisfy a British insurer? Sounds like an exceedingly entertaining road trip anyway; I await the Scooters family holiday snaps with relish!

[pompei]

Are y7ou buying the nice one at the top or the rough one below?

[Woody]

Nice patina, and check out that supershite steering wheel cover - yum

[scooters]

its 500 quid

its a mk1 pallas in good mechanical condition but which is spectacularly tatty. Old citroens should either be spotless or very disreputable.

Ive been watching cx prices closely over the last year since sellng my last one. The cost of flying to sofia and driving back paying import duty mot and registration and respraying it is still lower than buying a mint mk 1. british cars usually have some pretty bad rust. This one has minimal due to ...no salt on on bulgarians roads..yes I could source a french one but mk1 sm are still costly. lpg is fitted professionally and has certification. It will be removed anway as the tank will be taking up a good deal of boot space. CXs are fastback saloons not hatchbacks

 

The mk1 is a very different car. Not just cosmetic ally it has a much softer suspension system very simlar to the DS. The mk2 is much firmer.

 

Anyway this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

# woody....you get the idea who wouldnt wanted a shite seering wheel cover

[cms206]

Is Bulgaria in the EU? Surely no duty payable... ?

 

 

Great idea, though, definately. I tried to drive a 1976 Wartburg back from CZ and managed about 80km before exploding in a cloud of fiery death so I'm definately looking forward to reading this epic about something with magic suspension and a dashboard clearly made from dark matter.

[scooters]

The top pick is what it looked like before being imported into bulgaria and spending 15 years being towed by a donkey and having most of the laquer peel off

[trigger]

You sure?, In the top picture it has a vinyl roof, side repeaters in different places and no door mirror.

[R9UKE]

Has this been on Car and Classic forever?? I remember salivating over it thinking it was in the UK.

[Cavcraft]

This promises a whole new level of EPIC. You must be fucking totally radio to be buying that and I can't wait for the full road trip report. Kudos are way overdue if you bring it back.

[dollywobbler]

You sure?, In the top picture it has a vinyl roof, side repeaters in different places and no door mirror.

 

Good spots. Are you sure the first one isn't just a picture of how it SHOULD look? The Italian specs seemed to require the side indicators to be further forward for some reason, as per the first shot. Is possible it's had front wings at some point, but the vinyl roof is an interesting one...

[scooters]

You sure?, In the top picture it has a vinyl roof, side repeaters in different places and no door mirror.

 

wings replaced from a mk2 hence repeater locations

 

Vinyl roof ana option on french market pallas bit was dropped gairly soon...being a citroen vinyl roof it lasted about 20 years before the sun did for it and it startsm to peel off. cars exported to hot countries didnt have it because of this. It was standard on french market prestiges

 

Door mirror added

 

27 year old car that has been kept on the road using whatever to hand

[scooters]

Anyway Ime not buying it for what it did/should look like but what it looks like now which is fatastically chod

[Pete-M]

I've got a few Bulgarian mates. That LPG install should work as bizarrely LPG is something they're not that shit at. Unusual for Bulgarians to be 'not shit' at something that doesn't involve being artsy or pissed.

[Craig the Princess]

Is Bulgaria in the EU? Surely no duty payable... ?

 

/\ This.

 

From HMRC ( http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPort ... #P28_61650 )

 

All new cars are liable to VAT on entry to the UK but duty will only apply if imported from outside the EU. The rate of duty liable will depend if the car purchased is new, second hand or classified as a car of historic interest.

 

But I think VAT is due.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Why would VAT be due? VAT is only payable once, when the car registered for the first time or when you first import it into the EU.

[Craig the Princess]

Why would VAT be due? VAT is only payable once, when the car registered for the first time or when you first import it into the EU.

 

Actually I think I mis-read it, it talked about VAT then moved onto duty. Duty is payable on second hand stuff but not within the EU.

 

Oops

[worldofceri]

...this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

I hope you didn't feel you had to justify yourself to me. I think it's an ace way to spend one's money and time.

[Craig the Princess]

...this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

I hope you didn't feel you had to justify yourself to me. I think it's an ace way to spend one's money and time.

 

/\ This, it's a fantastic idea.

[DSdriver]

Great stuff, if you are determined to achieve your shite doctorate you will of course convert it to Cmatic.

[scooters]

...this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

I hope you didn't feel you had to justify yourself to me. I think it's an ace way to spend one's money and time.

 

 

[The Moog]

Whats the Alternator like?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

BTW, I have a good friend in Plovdiv. Let me know if you get stuck with anything bureaucratic etc, and I will see if she can help out.

[HBR]

A reverse banger rally, travel to far flung european town, buy an old banger & drive it home to keep.

 

FANTASTIC!!!

[HillmanImp]

A reverse banger rally, travel to far flung european town, buy an old banger & drive it home to keep.

 

FANTASTIC!!!

 

This is a much better idea that the crap lets destroy a Carlton/Jag and leave it in Italy crap you normally get. I am WELL up for one of these. Where are we going then chaps? Is there anywhere in Europe which is RHD? Although I suppose I could repatriate some UK chod that has been left over there.......

[KruJoe]

Rich, if you can pull off this stunt, we expect an EPIC write-up to follow!

[scooters]

This is pretty tame compared with what Sam Glover gets up to. In the last year alone he's collected an Dacia Coupe abandoned on a grim Bucharest housing project and he's just recently returned from Kaliningrad (Koenigsburg) which is a total shit hole ever since the red army flattened it in 1945 having rescued some soviet era uberchod...both driven back under their oren sm steam. He has heaps of experience at this sort of thing and is going to be out that way again around the same time.

[Autoplas]

its 500 quid

its a mk1 pallas in good mechanical condition but which is spectacularly tatty. Old citroens should either be spotless or very disreputable.

Ive been watching cx prices closely over the last year since sellng my last one. The cost of flying to sofia and driving back paying import duty mot and registration and respraying it is still lower than buying a mint mk 1. british cars usually have some pretty bad rust. This one has minimal due to ...no salt on on bulgarians roads..yes I could source a french one but mk1 sm are still costly. lpg is fitted professionally and has certification. It will be removed anway as the tank will be taking up a good deal of boot space. CXs are fastback saloons not hatchbacks

 

The mk1 is a very different car. Not just cosmetic ally it has a much softer suspension system very simlar to the DS. The mk2 is much firmer.

 

Anyway this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

# woody....you get the idea who wouldnt wanted a shite seering wheel cover

 

Which no doubt has both taken a beaten over the last 15 years but come in very handy as the roads in Bulgy are bloody horrendous (with a few exceptions on new autoroutes)

 

Fair play to you, it is not something I would do for that car but I am looking forward to the story of the ride home. If it isn't rusty and the interior is OK under those covers then a decent lick of paint, a few cosmetics and you have a nice old motor !

[dollywobbler]

Curse this thread. I am now searching Leboncoin.fr for an Ami 6 to bring here...

[scooters]

its 500 quid

its a mk1 pallas in good mechanical condition but which is spectacularly tatty. Old citroens should either be spotless or very disreputable.

Ive been watching cx prices closely over the last year since sellng my last one. The cost of flying to sofia and driving back paying import duty mot and registration and respraying it is still lower than buying a mint mk 1. british cars usually have some pretty bad rust. This one has minimal due to ...no salt on on bulgarians roads..yes I could source a french one but mk1 sm are still costly. lpg is fitted professionally and has certification. It will be removed anway as the tank will be taking up a good deal of boot space. CXs are fastback saloons not hatchbacks

 

The mk1 is a very different car. Not just cosmetic ally it has a much softer suspension system very simlar to the DS. The mk2 is much firmer.

 

Anyway this is Autoshite and I shouldn't have to jstify the foolish and rash buying of rough unloved chod and pouring money and time into recovering it, fixing it and running it .....this isnt flipping Honest John you know! Have a word with yourself!

 

# woody....you get the idea who wouldnt wanted a shite seering wheel cover

 

Which no doubt has both taken a beaten over the last 15 years but come in very handy as the roads in Bulgy are bloody horrendous (with a few exceptions on new autoroutes)

 

Fair play to you, it is not something I would do for that car but I am looking forward to the story of the ride home. If it isn't rusty and the interior is OK under those covers then a decent lick of paint, a few cosmetics and you have a nice old motor !

 

 

TBH the roads in Bulgaria are about the same standard as those in Lothian...since our city elders decided to spunk a billion quid on a tram system no one wants they have sidelined road budget into the trams for the last 5 years and we have had some very hard winters since...I added up the damage to my cars over the last few years -

 

XJ40 - front suspension

E34 - front suspension

850 - £300 quid bill front suspension

Legacy - rear suspension

sherpa - leaf spring fixed - £80 for the part

 

all from flippin potholes

 

hence the BX!