1978 Citroen GS 1220 Club For Sale - £700 \ 900 - Bootle

[Guest watanabe]

Full set of pictures here at http://imgur.com/a/EDU9R​

 

UPO 802T. £700 as is \ £900 with NOS panels. 

 

1978 Citroen GS 1220 Club in Cornflower Blue. It's always been out of the elements when I've owned it, either in Birkenhead or in Bootle where the car lives now. Reading 73,369 miles on the clock.

It needs a lot of work - a minimum of inner and outer sills, front valance, the front floor pans and the rear inner panels and the rear 3/4 panels and spats. The OSR is particularly bad. I was given a pair of slightly earlier NOS 3/4 panels when I bought the car. These can be had by separate negotiation at the second price listed. I also have a good used front valance. This will go with the car regardless. 

Mechanically it's pretty good. There's a small leak from the NSF front sphere, but it rises and falls as it should. The accumulator looks new and I fitted a new Lucas coil. Most of the heat exchangers are in the boot and the spare wheel's off the car for the moment to allow for some better access to the engine bay. 

It runs but I think a minimum of new plugs and leads would be required and the points re setting. I drove it round private land in Birkenhead frequently. Starter occasionally graunches, and the exhaust is very rotten. Tyres are a mixture of old Michelins and Firestone F-560s. 

V5 in my name. 

No MOT and tax, obviously. The car will need to be trailered away by your arrangement. It can't be A-framed for obvious reasons. 

Viewing very much encouraged. If you're interested [and by that I don't mean 'What's your best price?'] message me on here and we can set something up. 

[nigel bickle]

Aaah. Sad.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

EVERYONE LOVES A CLUB

[beko1987]

Got anymore pics? Happy with it's great great grandson atm, but would like a perv!

 

Glwts etc as usual!

[beko1987]

I'm a spazmo, just seen the pics link...

[Junkman]

ACCPT 150 CSH 2NITE M8? CAN I DRV IT 2 STKPRT?

[warren t claim]

Although I have no idea what a GS is worth I'm pretty sure it can only be priced at market value, you can't really pass storage and transport costs onto a new buyer.

 

GLWTS. 

 

Go to night school and learn to weld and put it on the road yourself! I've driven it and mechanically it isn't too bad at all.

[Junkman]

Wotz the milige m8?

[Junkman]

No, the OMGMPG. Must use it for my 300 yard commute to work daily and only ave £1.27 a week to spend on OMGPetrol, m8.

Will it work in OMGSNOKAOS?

[Partridge]

Too much work for me (says the man who wants an XM).

Do you want me to AROnline it? Mr Adams liks Citroens.

[Cavcraft]

Opens page, sees no Corsas, leaves page.

 

GLWTS etc.

[Junkman]

P*ssed off with watchers now I need to sell just bid like !!!

P*ss takers will be reported!

 

Ta.

[Partridge]

By all means. 

Done.

[Partridge]

Yup-I've said if anyone is interested to contact me.

[Partridge]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/aronline/

 

You can haz link.

[dollywobbler]

Problem is, there are not masses of G buyers. That shambolic GS estate seemed to struggle with an asking price of a grand, and that had an MOT. 

 

Ridiculous really as these are stunning cars that work exceptionally well. I will still own one, but the timing is wrong for me. Oh, and skintness doesn't help. The Golf money seems to have turned into a Sirion, some trousers and a chicken.

[Partridge]

Give it time.

To be brutally honest, my reaction was "CURSE WORD ME, £700?" when I saw how much work it needed.

But I know Jack Shit about GSs.

[dollywobbler]

Well, to be honest, it's pretty hard to judge as projects don't seem to come up for sale that often - folk seem more interested in buying than restoring. I've seen some CCC folk ask silly money for projects, and they just act like they're not bothered that it hasn't sold yet as if someone someday will come along with the money. That's possible but I don't think yours is going to sell in a weekend. French cars outside the 'scenes' can be an arse to sell. As someone who once owned a 604 and lives not a million miles away from you can no doubt confirm.

[warren t claim]

I thought the garage in Bootle was buttons to rent? Keep it in case you get a change in fortune.

[Partridge]

Maybe try putting it on Citroen forums?

[Partridge]

Or on the Citroenet Facebook group. Julien Marsh is also the one you want to talk to about Citroens to.

[Junkman]

The problem with marque and type specific forums is that whoever wants a GS there already has four.

I'd say Mongbay is the best chance, but I don't envy you at all for whom you are going to have to deal with.

Then again, a GS is probably less a tard magnet than an old Benz or Yank.

[Partridge]

I've asked to join Citroenet's FB group...I'll ask around and see what happens...

[Bren]

Ebay is a sign of desperation.

 

RR - nobody has any folding - only offers of crap swaps.

 

If you can keep it then do so - otherwise it may end up going for next to nothing.

[Junkman]

This is not in accordance with what I observe in the Ebay tat thread. Everything seems to go for shitloads of £££s nowadays.

OK, that's relative, I admit. Often I feel like I'm the last man in Britain who considers 3 bags a sizeable chunk of rhino.

[warren t claim]

It's not that expensive, but it's not the 'much cheaper than Manchester' storage solution everyone told me it was. 

 

I have too many toys and nowhere near enough money. It's early days, we'll have to see - but eBay might be the way to shift it relatively quickly. 

I am beginning to feel like I got bummed over the purchase price, unless it's one of those convenient 'you're selling it so it's automatically worthless' occasions. 

What's the score with the Pizza? Are you still paying storage on that?

[Junkman]

Even Pizzas are 8 quid in England nowadays. Insane.

[Junkman]

If you could see what I see every day.

The shit people load up their shopping trolleys with at Morrisons across the street every day, you will never believe me.

They arrive with their leased people carrier, that costs them 900 quid a month without even driving it a metre. This is also why they are so concerned with OMGMPG, but that's yet another story. Or the same. Or whatever. I don't give a fuck.

 

Right, preliminary explanation: A Pizza is 65% fat, 10% carbohydrates and 25% carcinogenic substances. There is not a trace of fibers or vitamins on them, because they are A-fucking-merican and not Italian at all, so much for that.

Italian girls (bella ragazzas, lemme tellya, oh lala, rah, like) eat their first Pizza in their 50s and you can clearly see what this instantly transforms them into.

 

English people drive to Morrisons in a fucking leased people carrier, the one device worldwide, that signals to the rest of the world, that they have given up in life (but English people seem to cherish that idea) and not one £8.00 Pizza is put into the shopping trolley (entirely btw, aside from a Pint, these are the only things that are bigger in England than in America), but a fucking STACK of them. The rest is then filled with more fat, carcinogenic stuff, gallons and more gallons of drinks containing Aspertame, oversalted ready-made curry, and zero vitamins whatsoever. Avoid vitamins at all cost. Sell even milk in translucent bottles, because the WORLD knows that light is killing vitamins in milk.

 

The sum at the checkout is usally something around £167 for this pure, unadultered shit, which is paid for with some sort of plastic card without blinking an eyelid. The PIN of said plastic card is duly recorded in some fucking government database, but we don't care about that. Why should we?

The unfit for human consumption rubbish aquired under such inhumane conditions is then subsequently administered to children, with the result that English girls look like 50-odd year old Italian rotundas at age 10, and English boys become football fans for life and expose their arms in public.

 

So, spending 900 quid a Month on the lease of a fucking people carrier and 167 quid a week on certain death at Morrisons, umpthousands on a mortgage the size of Canada for one of those stupid Neo-Georgian sheds with fake columns around the front door, another 200 quid a month on a 55" flatscreen telly to watch Sky Sports, God knows how much on the 3500 quid credit for the last holiday in a godforsaken shithole like Cyprus, with interest, whatever little is left over is given to some fucking cancer research charity (a billion dollar business, so why the fuck would they come up with something?) which would be made completely redundant if people wouldn't stuff themselves with the shit they do and if they'd drive cool cars, because in the end that's what it is all about in life. I want to meet the man, who tells me, that ferrying his clan around in a Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon isn't cooler, than leasing a Kia Sedona. I sit here, and I want to meet this man. Honestly, I do.

 

That's why nobody will buy that GS. That and nothing else.

[warren t claim]

Wow, response to this has been, er..............

In all fairness this isn't going to be a quick sale unless you're planning on giving it away.

 

What's it worth broken for spares? I thought the engines on these were worth £££s to light aircraft fans?

[Partridge]

If you could see what I see every day.

The shit people load up their shopping trolleys with at Morrisons across the street every day, you will never believe me.

They arrive with their leased people carrier, that costs them 900 quid a month without even driving it a metre. This is also why they are so concerned with OMGMPG, but that's yet another story. Or the same. Or whatever. I don't give a fuck.

 

Right, preliminary explanation: A Pizza is 65% fat, 10% carbohydrates and 25% carcinogenic substances. There is not a trace of fibers or vitamins on them, because they are A-fucking-merican and not Italian at all, so much for that.

Italian girls (bella ragazzas, lemme tellya, oh lala, rah, like) eat their first Pizza in their 50s and you can clearly see what this instantly transforms them into.

 

English people drive to Morrisons in a fucking leased people carrier, the one device worldwide, that signals to the rest of the world, that they have given up in life (but English people seem to cherish that idea) and not one £8.00 Pizza is put into the shopping trolley (entirely btw, aside from a Pint, these are the only things that are bigger in England than in America), but a fucking STACK of them. The rest is then filled with more fat, carcinogenic stuff, gallons and more gallons of drinks containing Aspertame, oversalted ready-made curry, and zero vitamins whatsoever. Avoid vitamins at all cost. Sell even milk in translucent bottles, because the WORLD knows that light is killing vitamins in milk.

 

The sum at the checkout is usally something around £167 for this pure, unadultered shit, which is paid for with some sort of plastic card without blinking an eyelid. The PIN of said plastic card is duly recorded in some fucking government database, but we don't care about that. Why should we?

The unfit for human consumption rubbish aquired under such inhumane conditions is then subsequently administered to children, with the result that English girls look like 50-odd year old Italian rotundas at age 10, and English boys becoming football fans for life and expose their arms in public.

 

So, spending 900 quid a Month on the lease of a fucking people carrier and 167 quid a week on certain death at Morrisons, umpthousands on a mortgage the size of Canada for one of those stupid Neo-Georgian sheds with fake columns around the front door, another 200 quid a month on a 55" flatscreen telly to watch Sky Sports, God knows how much on the 3500 quid credit for the last holiday in a godforsaken shithole like Cyprus, with interest, whatever little is left over is given to some fucking cancer research charity (a billion dollar business, so why the fuck would they come up with something?) which would be made completely redundant if people wouldn't stuff themselves with the shit they do and if they'd drive cool cars, because in the end that's what it is all about in life. I want to meet the man, who tells me, that ferrying his clan around in a Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon isn't cooler, than leasing a Kia Sedona. I sit here, and I want to meet this man. Honestly, I do.

 

That's why nobody will buy that GS. That and nothing else.

Thank god my Mum showed me how to cook is all I can say.

I was going to write a great long sermon in responce to that, but didn't.

 

All I'll say is: well said.