Beige BX - Autoshite joint purchase ACHIEVED - funders/fixers/sarcastic commenters SOUGHT

[stillOrange]

http://www.citroenet.org.uk/miscellaneous/unleaded/unleaded.html

 

This would suggest that leaded petrol is a must for this engine.

It's a 14RE but produced in 1984.

[somewhatfoolish]

there's a risk this is a stupid question - but does this run ok on standard unleaded?

Teh Internetz says that it can't but it appears to be for ignition advance reasons as it also says it can run on superZOMG unleaded. Presumably;

a) as the head's alloy it has valve inserts hard enough as standard for unleaded

b)the advanced and super-sophisticated electronic breakerless sparkler system cannot be fooled into retarding itself to allow the use of RON95, but RON98 is fine.

[Skizzer]

I thought there was a 14 with no E, which had less power than the 72 of the 14E and RE, but it's a long time since I read the launch brochure.

I can't believe no one has said LOVES DRIVING HATES GARAGES yet. What a sales slogan that was!

You're right and I was wrong. CAR GBU from January 1985:

 

 

Luxury BX is luxurious.

[Essex V6]

I've found some photos from a few years back when the owner before the last one got it.

Is that a later rear bumper?

[Essex V6]

The car arrived.

I stupidly assumed that the guy with the transporter/recovery truck will have jump cables. He didn't. Huffing and puffing and pushing began.

We managed to get it into the lock up.

The car itself. Damn it's beige, it will be even more once thick layer of dust is removed. It seems to be in relatively good nick. The only rust spots I could see are on doors on drivers side.

I'll try to get back to the garage tomorrow after work just to start it up and have a proper look around.

Few pictures

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Love this photo

[RayMK]

Good luck with the BX of much beigeness.  My son had a BX several years ago.  It is remembered for its heavy clutch, lack of room in the front footwell for his size 14s and puddles of LHM.  It spent many weeks having the leaks fixed, only for another to occur within a few days.  As previous owners of many similarly suspended Citroens, this behaviour was intolerable and destroyed any love that may have been developing. 

[Skizzer]

Is that a later rear bumper?

 

Yes.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Money out now 570.

 

Money in 685.   EDIT, arithmetical error, sorry, 645

 

 Still 570 in, 645 out. 

 

EDIT:  DOH - other way around,  570 out, 645 in.

[stillOrange]

The other way round?

[purplebargeken]

Hmm, do I foresee a trip to pie eating world to see French beige shite? Verdict..... would.

[Skizzer]

Sadly, you're right. I'll never see the view that the shitter a car is, the better it is. P'raps I'm in the wrong place.

 

It's not that shittier cars are better.  It's that the more unloved the car is, the more it falls to us to preserve it, because nobody else will.

 

One of the last surviving examples of a family hatchback, in wheezy-engined base spec and a miserable colour and wearing its history in its seat fabric and bumper scuffs, does not mean a better car; it means a more heroic rescue.  

 

The world is awash with shiny, fashionable old sports cars and handbuilt limousines.  They have huge support through owners' clubs, magazines, auction houses and big businesses.  They have glitzy shows at the NEC and Paris and Geneva and Essen and Pebble Beach.  

 

For stuff like a cooking-grade Citroen BX or Ford Sierra or Renault 16 - interesting (if flawed) pieces of design and a part of European social history and many people's youth - there's just us blokes on a home-made website. There are far, far fewer mk1 BXs left than there are Aston Martin V8s or (God help us) MGBs because nobody else cares.

 

That's the point.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The other way round?

 

Sorry, other way around.

 

PS - DAMN:  attempt to cook books rumbled by alert audit partner.  Must try more stealthy stealage.

[Guest Breadvan72]

You're right and I was wrong. CAR GBU from January 1985:

 

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Luxury BX is luxurious.

 

Also appears to be De Tomaso.  Verdict: EXOTICA.

[Guest Breadvan72]

To aid funding, I am thinking of publishing a short book featuring the exceedingly funny and inventive notes that have accompanied the payments sent thus far.  I really have been ROFLMAOing over many of them.  I may post a selection here in due course.  

 

Witty forum is witty!

 

To those who have sent such notes, many thanks for the top LULZ action, and I am sorry for not replying to each one in character.

 

 

[stillOrange]

Sorry, other way around.

 

PS - DAMN: attempt to cook books rumbled by alert audit partner. Must try more stealthy stealage.

My days at Deloitte are long gone!

[chaseracer]

Sorry, other way around.

 

PS - DAMN:  attempt to cook books rumbled by alert audit partner.  Must try more stealthy stealage.

 

You have my details, should professional* representation be required... 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Did not realise that you were Jim the Crim.  I am Spiv the Civ (maybe Div the Civ), but am doing a pro bono Jim the Crim gig at Southwark in July, because POCA, because fancy-ass STFU ECHR points, because common intention constructive trust.  Heads of Prosecutor, Judge, and SIO on max explode setting.    Perp doing ten for dealcoke and gun.  Launch POCA: girlfriend and daughter face homelessness. Daughter (five) disabled - hence pro bono me.  Have also done some CCA, because Parole Board.  Also one jury, because MHA83 false imprisonment damages beef.  Also some plod-related inquests, because IPCC.

[Dave_Q]

It's not that shittier cars are better.  It's that the more unloved the car is, the more it falls to us to preserve it, because nobody else will.

 

One of the last surviving examples of a family hatchback, in wheezy-engined base spec and a miserable colour and wearing its history in its seat fabric and bumper scuffs, does not mean a better car; it means a more heroic rescue.  

 

The world is awash with shiny, fashionable old sports cars and handbuilt limousines.  They have huge support through owners' clubs, magazines, auction houses and big businesses.  They have glitzy shows at the NEC and Paris and Geneva and Essen and Pebble Beach.  

 

For stuff like a cooking-grade Citroen BX or Ford Sierra or Renault 16 - interesting (if flawed) pieces of design and a part of European social history and many people's youth - there's just us blokes on a home-made website. There are far, far fewer mk1 BXs left than there are Aston Martin V8s or (God help us) MGBs because nobody else cares.

 

That's the point.

 

According to the ever accurate how many left:

 

E-type - 3,700 taxed and 1,200 SORN

 

DB5 - 277 taxed and 78 on SORN

 

BX 14RE - 27 taxed and 30 on SORN

 

 

The last BX14 and BX14E bit the dust in the last few years. 

 

There are 2 BX14E Leaders still taxed and a few on SORN.

 

Please note - all numbers are about as accurate as just making them up yourself.

[beko1987]

I just want to clay and polish it! If 3 of us with da polisher (or 3 with Das and me following on buffing a d glazing) descended on it it would be even fitter!

 

I hope those seat covers have protected her well

[stillOrange]

Just bring a generator... ðŸ‘

[chaseracer]

Did not realise that you were Jim the Crim.  I am Spiv the Civ (maybe Div the Civ), but am doing a pro bono Jim the Crim gig at Southwark in July, because POCA, because fancy-ass STFU ECHR points, because common intention constructive trust.  Heads of Prosecutor, Judge, and SIO on max explode setting.    Perp doing ten for dealcoke and gun.  Launch POCA: girlfriend and daughter face homelessness. Daughter (five) disabled - hence pro bono me.  Have also done some CCA, because Parole Board.  Also one jury, because MHA83 false imprisonment damages beef.  Also some plod-related inquests, because IPCC.

 

Crikey, I almost understood some of that, despite the incontrovertible fact that IANAL, as I keep having to remind certain clients.  Always available, should Unite fail to deliver!  (Which I hope is never tested, as I'm about to join myself.)

 

Anyway, where were we?  Ah yes...

 

 

[holbeck]

Gosh, I'm glad we did this. That does look nice.

[strangeangel]

Please note - all numbers are about as accurate as just making them up yourself.

 

But still more accurate then their figures pertaining to motorcycles!

[somewhatfoolish]

Crikey, I almost understood some of that, despite the incontrovertible fact that IANAL, as I keep having to remind certain clients. Always available, should Unite fail to deliver! (Which I hope is never tested, as I'm about to join myself.)

 

Why, are you coming apart?

 

Apologies to Spike Milligan.

[chaseracer]

Clear construction and punctuation is vital, isn't it? 

[purplebargeken]

That beige and orange combo HAS to be a calendar shot.

[chaseracer]

That beige and orange combo HAS to be a calendar shot.

 

COVER!! 

[bramz7]

On the subject of BX base models, this one might still be around, and it's only 15 odd miles from me:

 

1988 CITROEN BX14 1.4 LEADER HATCHBACK by Sam Osbon, on Flickr

 

 

Off the road since 1997 mind you. Maybe worth a knock? Or a note? I'll be in said town in just over a week...

[Angrydicky]

How about this one? MK1 BX 14E, last on the road 1998. I would love to see it saved!

 

I told Barrett about it but he's all BXed out at the moment.

 

1986 Citroen BX 1.4E by steve wilson, on Flickr

[richardmorris]

Those two above show the difference between the s1 and 2 bumpers.