BOUGHTED: non GTi Poogahoot 205 Euroshite

[Guest]

Mission briefing:

I am moving from urban Smoothville to darkest Stickshire. My wife will need a car in order to avoid cabin fever, but because of certain, ahem, indiscretions in her not so distant motoring past, she can't get insured on any of my asssorted shitheaps without paying a kabunga load of premium. This also means that I have to do all the driving, which is OK mostly, as I think driving is, like, well wicked and stuff, but sometimes I want to be able to drink 97 pints and then get shovelled in a state of incipient treble incontinence into the passenger seat of some yarmouth, just like any normal person.

Also, my spouse will soon have a birthday of some significance. Also also, when she was a young and groovy Soho meeja chick, she bombed around everywhere in a 206 [EDIT - 205] GTi, usually going at Warp 7 in a haze of high octane petrol, Marlboro smoke and Chanel Number 5. The corners of her chickmobile were all dented, owing to Soho parking a la mode Parisienne.

No GTi this time around, owing to them all costing a ton and most having been bumshagged out by Barry the Chav, but I have just missed out on an apparent beauty of a 1993 GTX 1.3, for which some bloke was asking about 900 notes. I would gladly buy another such, or any variant of 205 that is not completely bollocks or expensive, preferably one with 3 doors. Colour not important, posh wheels not important, but a reasonably pleasant interior, a manual gearbox, not too many huge dents, and no epic amounts of rust or general scabbiness are on the wish list.

I might be open to suggestions of other interestingish oldish hatchbacks with smallish engines, preferably 3 door, small, and not hideously minging. Equipment level need not be lavish, but maybe a radio and a heater would be good. An MOT, short or long, is up there too. Nippiness desirable, power and so forth irrelevant, with low being better than high for insurance reasons. 1980s or 90s would be good, before everything became lardy and loaded (also reliable and not rusty, but let's not go there).

I might go up to 900 ish for the right bit of tat, but would like to get away with less if I can.

If anyone has, or knows of, any such chod, please let me know. Red5 has already kindly mentioned that he might know of a 5 door Megane knocking about, but I want to see if I can find something a tad smaller and even prettier for my wife, who is small, and, though I say it myself, pretty.

Thanks for any ideas.

edit: BOUGHTED!

[Guest]

Typo - chickmobile was a 205, not a 206. Those 206s are too modern, heavy and phat tyred, I reckon.

 

This one could be great if it were not for having those annoying doors at the back, but it may be an option. Lerrrrve the steel wheels. Pity the windows aren't handy windy.

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C364690

[garethj]

I certainly wouldn't show her a picture of this, oh no, definitely not.

 

Selling it isn't the problem, it's finding a replacement I'm having problems with! It's a non-turbo diesel with 59 throbbing bhp but it also did 59 throbbing mpg when I filled the tank this evening. I'm really struggling to find something which I know will get me to work and back with this kind of reliability, this has done 400 miles a week for the last year and a bit and I'm getting used to filter changes being all that's required.

[Spiny Norman]

Yup, I've got a bit of a hankering for a 205 or something very similar as well at the minute. It's been a while since I've had a little tiddler (anything under 2 litres) and the idea of a 40/50mpg little hatch that goes on my classic insurance is hugely appealing.

 

That little red one is a real honey.

[catsinthewelder]

Micrashed posted this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 1099591840 on the tat thread earlier, I havn't seen the car but Doc Chevron (who wrote the ad and did all the work on the car) is a thoroughly decent type

 

[Guest]

I have seen that one, thanks, but the pictures are old, and the ad relates that, since they were taken, every panel has been attacked by trainee blacksmiths and/or sat on by elephants, as in that Indian advert.

 

Re: the red smokey one, might you be interested in, er... cash?

[Guest]

Once more Autoshite comes up trumps, and my wife will soon be adding the sweet, wafty odour of diesel to the Chanel. It will be a contest to see which smokes more - her, or the car. Autoshite, I think I love you.

[Guest]

Epic plan de collection foiled by le meteo tres rubbish. Now aiming for Wednesday soir.

[Guest]

Epic plan de collection foiled by le meteo tres rubbish. Now aiming for Wednesday soir.

[garethj]

This evening the Pug has been carefully prepared for it's sale on Wednesday. I walked around the car and kicked all four of the tyres, no scrimping at garethj's auto emporium! I lifted the bonnet and topped up the antifreeze because it's been about a month since I last looked. Of course when I checked this evening it was dark and most of the antifreeze went over the battery and my shoes.

 

It's this kind of care and dedication that allows garethj's auto emporium to offer a 3 year warranty on all our cars*

 

I'll be sad to see it go, and I'm absolutely bricking it for getting Dollywobbler's BX. See you on Wednesday B_72

 

 

*Warranty will not be honoured.

[garethj]

This evening the Pug has been carefully prepared for it's sale on Wednesday. I walked around the car and kicked all four of the tyres, no scrimping at garethj's auto emporium! I lifted the bonnet and topped up the antifreeze because it's been about a month since I last looked. Of course when I checked this evening it was dark and most of the antifreeze went over the battery and my shoes.

 

It's this kind of care and dedication that allows garethj's auto emporium to offer a 3 year warranty on all our cars*

 

I'll be sad to see it go, and I'm absolutely bricking it for getting Dollywobbler's BX. See you on Wednesday B_72

 

 

*Warranty will not be honoured.

[Guest]

That's my kind of PDI! Plainly you are a man of honour and repute, who makes customer service a personal creed. Fuck me, though, those shoes look gash.

[Guest]

That's my kind of PDI! Plainly you are a man of honour and repute, who makes customer service a personal creed. Fuck me, though, those shoes look gash.

[garethj]

Mr B_Van Esq left with the Peugeot this evening, about an hour ago.

 

Option 1: Roaming around Bedfordshire, looking for the M1

 

Option 2: Broken down on the M1, hoping they've remembered to light the overhead signs telling people they shouldn't use the hard shoulder.

 

Option 3: Arrived home and Mrs B_Van has said "you've bought what?"

[garethj]

Mr B_Van Esq left with the Peugeot this evening, about an hour ago.

 

Option 1: Roaming around Bedfordshire, looking for the M1

 

Option 2: Broken down on the M1, hoping they've remembered to light the overhead signs telling people they shouldn't use the hard shoulder.

 

Option 3: Arrived home and Mrs B_Van has said "you've bought what?"

[Guest]

Mrs Breadvan is big up happy clappy, and tonight I might even be getting lucky. The Puglet is a delight, and going down well with the troops.

 

No epic collection tale, I'm afraid. I just tootled off to the M1 and drove the car home, being very pleased with how very delightful it is. Yes, you have to stir the stick a bit on the motorway, and, yes, it feels the side-drafts of big trucks, but it's a little sweetie. Bangin' CHOOONZE on the decent stereo.

 

On the way through Archway,the asembled shiteists of Norf Lahndan came out to form an honour guard - P reg Escort, H reg MR2, N reg Honda something, N reg other Pug (driving without lights), and S reg Fiesta. 90s nutters are go!

 

Thanks Gareth, here is the Pug in that London:-

 

 

[Guest]

Mrs Breadvan is big up happy clappy, and tonight I might even be getting lucky. The Puglet is a delight, and going down well with the troops.

 

No epic collection tale, I'm afraid. I just tootled off to the M1 and drove the car home, being very pleased with how very delightful it is. Yes, you have to stir the stick a bit on the motorway, and, yes, it feels the side-drafts of big trucks, but it's a little sweetie. Bangin' CHOOONZE on the decent stereo.

 

On the way through Archway,the asembled shiteists of Norf Lahndan came out to form an honour guard - P reg Escort, H reg MR2, N reg Honda something, N reg other Pug (driving without lights), and S reg Fiesta. 90s nutters are go!

 

Thanks Gareth, here is the Pug in that London:-

 

 

[garethj]

ORSUM!!1!

 

It's true you can get kickin choons on the ICE, I was thinking the same this morning listening to the Today programme on the wireless

 

I think a simple 205 like this is almost the modern equivalent of a 2CV, can be used for typical tasks of the day (we don't have ploughed fields any more that need a basket of eggs to be carried, but we do have motorways and speedbumps), it's cheap, it's simple and it looks quite charming in its basic kind of way.

 

Autoshite Best Buy recommended

[garethj]

ORSUM!!1!

 

It's true you can get kickin choons on the ICE, I was thinking the same this morning listening to the Today programme on the wireless

 

I think a simple 205 like this is almost the modern equivalent of a 2CV, can be used for typical tasks of the day (we don't have ploughed fields any more that need a basket of eggs to be carried, but we do have motorways and speedbumps), it's cheap, it's simple and it looks quite charming in its basic kind of way.

 

Autoshite Best Buy recommended

[Guest]

The 2CV comparison seems pretty spot on. That wheel at each corner thang is full of WIN. A great car for town or country, and good enough to chug it on the motorway too. Total Tardis on the inside. Joe-Bob says: check it out.

[Guest]

The 2CV comparison seems pretty spot on. That wheel at each corner thang is full of WIN. A great car for town or country, and good enough to chug it on the motorway too. Total Tardis on the inside. Joe-Bob says: check it out.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Arse. The fuel pump on the ChuggaPug is a product of the Prince of Fricken Darkness, and not of some bunch of hyper efficient Mittel Europa dullards, so no Aldi chip fat special offer for me.

[garethj]

This is true, it's the gas-guzzling 55+ mpg for you!

[Guest]

Hey, ain't life a bummer, eh?

 

What news of the mighty BX, Gareth?

[garethj]

Full report soon...

[Guest]

Meanwhile, check this one out. Not for me, as I'm on austerity duty, but maybe for someone with a few notes lying around.

 

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C374095

[Guest]

I briefly considered getting my wife an old Golluf instead of a 205, but the cheaply insurable ones seemed to be either expensive, or rusty, or both. Here is the Peugeot of Extraordinary Redness pretending to be a GTi in order to sit next to some Germanic variant of the 1980s hotbox/rotbox archetype.

 

[Guest]

Here's a thing. Near my new pad, I spotted an N reg Pug 205 in blue. I saw it again the next day, and it turns out to be a 1.8 diesel in Inca spec, same as the red one. How sweet! I will try to get a photog of the two of them badly parked somewhere.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Just an update to say that my wife's Pohget continues to rock on, apart from leaking like a fucker in all this rain.  Yes, it's a bit leaky around the back door area, but then [remainder of post censored by Mrs Breadvan.  Further updates courtesy of the John Radcliffe Hospital Internetz]