Worryingly modern French yarmouth for wifey. NOW collected.

[Guest Breadvan72]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-Peugeot-206cc-cc-Blue-Convertible-Cabriolet-/221371809677?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=oEsmxvadrTf%252BHeHAiIINBSKeKts%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

2001 is daringly modern by my standards, and this one comes complete with over phat tyres, thick pillars, and other modern nonsense  (possibly even including "not breaking down every fifteen minutes").  

 

These cars make MX 5s seem butch, but are actually not as bad as you might think, at least in two litre guise (the 1.6 being too gutless to lug the heavy roof mechanism around).   

 

Handy if you are a kiddy fiddler (and frankly who here isn't?) as a crowd of small children may gather if you operate the foldy roof by the roadside. Take yer pick, but NB you may have to chop them up first as not much room in the boot when the top is down.  

 

Collection from Accrington, Lancs, next Monday.  Car then to be hidden away until April when it will be given to my wife for a prezzer.  If only someone from Lancashire would buy my Alfa 156 - that way the logistics could be GR9. 

 

 

[320touring]

There was me thinking you needed a skip for house renovations...

 

Looks a decent car! When I gave my brother an e30 for Christmas I hid it at the top of the street and just gave him the v5..very funny to see it dawn on him.

 

 

It's now nearly back on the road too.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If you're over 6foot tall be careful when shutting that fancy folding top.

My mum had one a few years ago and of course I had to have a play in it when she came round to show it of,you're right quite a nippy little thing, anyway pulled up and shut the roof,the last little bit comes down with quite a bump - right on the top of my bonce ! Cue mother,wife and kids pissing themselves, I hate Peugeots.

[twosmoke300]

Hmm psa electrical folding hard top. Wcpgw

[Guest Breadvan72]

It's fun giving people old cars as gifts.  My dad had wanted a Sunbeam Rapier Fastback for years and years, and when the bloke who ran my local deli was selling his I agreed a price, and then rocked up at my parents' house with the car and parked it near the door.  Then I said "oh, there's one of those cars you like", and he admired it, and then I said "oh look, I wonder if these keys will fit it", and so on.      He kept the car a few years, loved it, and then gave it to a mate when my dad had become too old to work on his cars.    Those Rapiers are total sheep in wolf's clothing, BTW, at least in non Holbay form.    This one had a giffermatic box as well. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Me: shortarse, me.  Wife: tiny.

 

In 2002, I bought my (now ex) wife a silver 206 CC brand new (grey import, as at that time the waiting list at the dealers was six months long) .  She still has it, and uses it as her summer car, running some intensely dull modern smoker Golf in winter.  The roof on the 206 has never failed.   My current wife may have a slight epi about having the same car as my ex, but Mrs BV Mark 3* does love Pugs, so that may counter it.  I looked hard to find a non silver one.    

 

A Nissan Figaro was also a possibility, but they are rare, expensive, and possibly crap.   In an ideal world she would have a VW Kharmann Ghia, as she did when younger, but they are rare,very expensive, and undoubtedly crap. 

 

 

*Mark 1 was not a success and had a short production run 1985-87.  Mark 2  was on the roads from 1996-2010 and led to a mini version (2004 to date).  Competition from another manufacturer in 2008-9 led to the Mark 2's demise, but the rival model was itself withdrawn from the market in 2009.  Mark 3 (2012 to date) is actually the Prototype, and therefore best of all, as we met at university in 1981. 

[320touring]

My burd has a thing for Figaros, luckily a combination of a mechanic mate having a rotton one in for work(look at the holes in these sills, dear) and me distracting her with a mk1 gti cab, I appear to have survived.

 

If it helps any, I bought her a phase 1 Clio 172 as a daily, buying it sight unseen from a certain site..

 

Did the belts as its a keeper, and have had no issues to date (apart from me jetwashing the engine and causing a missfire due to water in de plug'oles)

 

13yr old French far as a daily?wcpgw!

[beko1987]

Fook me if you're going to Accrington do you mind taking a vacuum cleaner to The_Moog*? I could drop it off to you...

 

Multiplexed 206 I see, hope you don't have any electrical issues with it! Sure your missus will love it though!

 

*The_Moog lives in Accrington, I have no idea how big Accrington is. Could be the size of lahndun in which case fair play if you tell me to FRO!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Beko, my plan is to get the train to Accrington UNLESS SOMEONE OOP NORTH BUYS MY 156 HINT HINT HINT.  The seller will meet me at the station and I will grab the 206 and then head south for a pre booked MoT.   I could have haggled for the seller to do the MoT but I want the car to be looked at by a local garage that I trust. 

 

I would love to help, but am not that keen on lugging a vacuum cleaner about on the train.    As for exploring the wilds of Accrington, Stanley says that so long as I take some brightly coloured beads for barter with the natives I should be OK and won't be killed/eaten.    The 206 pedals have been adapted for clogs, apparently, but my soft southern loafers will fit on them OK.  

 

IF SOMEONE OOP NORTH WILL BUY MY 156 HINT HINT HINT NO PRESSURE I AM TRYING TO BE SUBTLE then Operation Hoovershite is GO.

[stuboy]

girl at work has the 207cc.. never washes it or hoovers it out

[mercrocker]

Gurls karnt kleen karz.... Daughter had a 206CC and kept it parked under fir trees.  Every crevice filled with pine needles which were just  left in there -  yet she never wrecked the roof mechanism.   Some daydreamer in a Fezza killed it broadside in the end.

[Guest Breadvan72]

I do like a dirty girl.

 

The 207 CC ain't as PURDY as the 206 in my eyes, but I have dodgy taste in  cars, women, etc.  Probably even more heavy and modern cacky as well. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

girl at work has the 207cc.. never washes it or hoovers it out

 

 

Pretty standard, especially if she is French or Francophile, but tell us how often she washes the car. 

[theorganist]

I had a 51 plate 206 1.4 automatic. The only really "modern" car I have owned.

 

I liked it, it was well equipped and pretty smooth and quick. It wasn't exactly economical though especially on a longer run and the sports mode just seemed to be there to use more fuel. Also driving down hill a steep hill and whilst not using the brake the whole transmission would jerk terribly as if it was undecided as to what gear it should be in!

[beko1987]

I posted about the Hoover before reading properly and realising that you would have to get the train, so fair play, I wouldnt want to wheel one about on public transport!

 

It's nearly boxed up anyway (just need to wait for stepdad to finish with the mountain of newspapers from the weekend) and I'll courier it over. Want me to box you up as well to save the train ride? Sure Moog would run you over to the 206, which may only be marginally better than a cardboard box and a Shittylink van...

[Pillock]

 

I would love to help, but am not that keen on lugging a vacuum cleaner about on the train. 

 

Sounds like a laugh. Sit it on the seat next to you, put a hat and a moustache on it and occasionally read it a story from the newspaper and offer it a cup of tea from your flask.

[Partridge]

Tell you what, I'll buy the 205 AND the Alfa today for £500!

 

Fuck off you say?

 

That's not very nice!

[dugong]

206CCs are TERRIBLE. Best of luck with it. 

MOTHA_DUGONG's CC was the rustiest 23k garaged car I've ever seen in my life. And the roof got stuck. And the door seals leaked. Also, hers was a 1.6. You could feel the scuttle shake with the roof down and the steering column UJ operating past your feet.

 

Heuliez must have been laughing all the way to the bank. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

My ex wife's 206 CC has done about 40,000 miles since 2002, lived outdoors all its life, and ain't rusty, but is a bit dented owing to some London parking by Braille episodes.

 

The only thing on it that has ever broken is the automatic windscreen wiper thing.  Also it has had a rattly exhaust pretty much forever.      She has also had approx 9 million punctures.  

 

We drove it 5000 miles around Europe once, with no probs, save for my now ex seeing a text message on my phone that led to certain long term consequences.    We had to pack light as the top was down for most of the trip, as rain had not been invented back then.

[Cavcraft]

So you bought your (subsequently) ex-wife one now your current missus? I like your style and am left to wonder if I can persaude my bird to learn to drive, you can get a second hand 206cc quite cheap now I think.

[Lord Sterling]

You could feel the steering column UJ operating past your feet.

 

This. This happens on all 206s, CCs hatchbacks etc... It's the one reason I don't much like driving 206s.

[cort16]

I can't believe you bought that car when this one is on the market.

Maybe you could try to replicate the look by rolling it down an embankment.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.swapz.co.uk/swapz/4364880/206cc_project/

[trigger]

You could feel the scuttle shake with the roof down and the steering column UJ operating past your feet.

Are you sure that it wasn't a Vauxhall Nova?

[Richard]

You feel the steering U/J in a lot of cars.

[beko1987]

I ruined the top of the left foot of my work shoes when I owned my 206 due to the steering UJ. Same when I drove a corsa c for a few months. I have long size 12s though.

[The Moog]

Beko, my plan is to get the train to Accrington UNLESS SOMEONE OOP NORTH BUYS MY 156 HINT HINT HINT.

 

IF SOMEONE OOP NORTH WILL BUY MY 156 HINT HINT HINT NO PRESSURE I AM TRYING TO BE SUBTLE then Operation Hoovershite is GO.

I really fancy your 156 but lack of cash right now (just started my business) and a missus who would disapprove are stumbling blocks

[beko1987]

Buy the 156 and I'll throw the DC04 in for free!

[The Moog]

Sounds like a plan ...

 

I will ask my missus again .. nicely.. I expect a 99% FRO .. but you never know ... I might catch her at a moment of weakness when she has forgotten about Scooters Triumph.

[anonymous user]

Re: transporting the vacuum cleaner on the train

Sounds like a laugh. Sit it on the seat next to you, put a hat and a moustache on it and occasionally read it a story from the newspaper and offer it a cup of tea from your flask.

 

Reading this has cheered me up no end (although my sense of humour is currently alcohol enhanced) so Breadvan if you would do this and publish photographic evidence here I should be delighted to send you a bottle of plonk. I will however take no responsibility if you get chucked off the train and/or sectioned as a result.

[Pillock]

You may find it backfires though and the conductor asks Mr Vacuum for a ticket.