Brand new Citroen for £4k

[Peter C]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/6447918/brand-new-1976-citroen-hatchback-not-driven-for-42-years-to-sell-for-just-4000-and-comes-with-its-original-tax-disc/

 

Stunning looking motor although I expect it’s going to need a fair amount of recommissioning to make it roadworthy.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

It's not a hatchback either, but The Sun isn't exactly noted for its general knowledge....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can someone post some pics or the story as the link is full of shit (advert I assume) on my phone so I can't see it.

[mk2_craig]

Ha, history tells us the better "investment" would have been a two year old Escort of some description.

[sierraman]

That will go for more than £4,000. When you say recommissioned, it's unlikely to be necessary, its a museum piece, doing any sort of mileage in it I'd unlikely.

[Fabergé Greggs]

“Bloody foreign cars, coming over here and hiding for 40 years in order to steal £4000 of our money”

 

No fucking way will £4000 buy you that. Further proof, as if it were needed, of the journalistic standards of those shit peddlers.

[Sigmund Fraud]

"The owner bought the car as an investment and left it locked away"

 

I suspect the owner of that GS has previously worked as the financial advisor for those two :

 

[Tamworthbay]

I am presently dribbling on my iPad, what is it’s about old Citroen’s that makes them so bloody gorgeous?

[mercrocker]

42 years of lock up storage is a damn sight more than 4k, too!    That colour scheme, though - fantastic.

[richardmorris]

I expect £10to £12,000 is more realistic a price.

[johngarty]

Can someone post some pics or the story as the link is full of shit (advert I assume) on my phone so I can't see it.

 

That whole rag is full of shit

[doubleyeller]

It's a regular thing this.....

Grandad bought his wife a brand new Renault 5, she drove it twice and didn't get on with it so it was stored away till now and being sold for x amount.

 

It's just a regular story when there's nothing newsworthy to fill the newspapers with.

 

End of the day why would anybody think it's worth paying new car money for a Volvo 340 with a couple of hundred miles on the clock?

[rovamota]

Were the 'family' who knew nothing about the car swirling like vultures to see what he had once he'd snuffed it. They probably didn't even know him.

[sierraman]

Hang on who would actually do this? If you had a 2010 Citroen in the garage with 42 miles on the clock, you would sell it. What's the purpose of having it there if you've no plans to ever use it.

[SierraMikeHotel]

Bollocks. Nobody ever bought a perfectly ordinary family car with the intention of stashing it away for 40 years and then claiming their pension - because that would clearly be idiotic.

 

Only worth doing with really, really top end cars - and that was the same in 1972.

 

Lovely car though.

[Lacquer Peel]

Hang on who would actually do this? If you had a 2010 Citroen in the garage with 42 miles on the clock, you would sell it. What's the purpose of having it there if you've no plans to ever use it.

Life gets in the way sometimes doesn't it?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Were the 'family' who knew nothing about the car swirling like vultures to see what he had once he'd snuffed it. They probably didn't even know him.

Wouldn't surprise me. Sometimes they don't even wait for death.....

[Captain Furious]

Bollocks. Nobody ever bought a perfectly ordinary family car with the intention of stashing it away for 40 years and then claiming their pension - because that would clearly be idiotic.

Only worth doing with really, really top end cars - and that was the same in 1972.

Lovely car though.

A lot of people are bandwagon jumping already though, especially in the OSF scene but I dare say other marques too. They’ve seen the way Cosworths, RS500's, RS1600's etc have rocketed to 6 figure valuations and now think anything with a remotely sporty ford badge is headed for the same. A few of the cars going through the NEC classoc car auction were just run of the mill focus ST's 'OMGTimeWARP CLASSIC' and selling for more than their original list price

 

Madness. Eventually they'll flood the market and all end up out of pocket, or such is my hope. This turning classic cars into 'investment opportunities' takes them out of reach of the people who actually want to drive them and show them off.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Currently sitting at £3200

[Zelandeth]

Curious to take a look, but my antivirus software went nuts the moment I clicked that link...so looking for another source.

 

Anyone got a link to somewhere without virus ridden ads?

[JJ0063]

KGF will be all over that.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

KGF will be all over that.

Or 4-Star Classics?

[stuboy]

Or 4-Star Classics?

suppose landbests wouldnt wanna know

[sierraman]

Life gets in the way sometimes doesn't it?

What for 42 years!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

What for 42 years!

You'd be amazed how long things can be put aside for...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

It was knocked down for £8300 in the end.

[carlo]

Expect to see that on ebay for £15k shortly.  Didn't think 8k was too bad in the end, it's unique.  Although you wouldn't want to drive it much.

[Felly Magic]

It does belong in a museum, every rubber component in that car will be gubbed, likely the engine is seized, it would need a lot more than a service to get it on the road, the sad thing is, this wouldn't need an MOT to be legal, a very scary prospect, especially being a Citroen from the 1970s, with a lot of bits bound to be grade 1 UNOBTANIUM, and yes if this had been a Ford Escort 1100L, guaranteed £15k straight off minimum, and fuck knows how much at the white room of Peterbro

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Wonder how much Chevronics would charge to get it back on the road.