1986 Citroen BX GT on ebay [being stripped :(]

Dollywobbler · Post by **Dollywobbler** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:41 am

Thanks to Mr Fenwick, I'm on the case. If I can save it, I will!

Dollywobbler · Post by **Dollywobbler** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:46 am

Ok. This is starting to take the piss now. Guess what! A chap called Richard has left a deposit for it. Not happy.

Post by **Tim Leech** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:55 am

Dollywobbler wrote:Ok. This is starting to take the piss now. Guess what! A chap called Richard has left a deposit for it. Not happy.

FFS!

Richard we all know your reading this, isnt about time you let someone else a turn? I would have thought being such a BX enthusiast and this being THE club for such people you wouldnt try and piss everyone off!

PhilGreaves · Post by **PhilGreaves** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:00 am

I hate to ask a stupid question but am i missing something? In my absense has something happened? (refering to the antiRichard stuff)

Post by **Tim Leech** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:05 am

PhilGreaves wrote:I hate to ask a stupid question but am i missing something? In my absense has something happened? (refering to the antiRichard stuff)

If you look round the forum you will find plenty of stuff about it, Richard is a chap/car dealer from Yorkshire, who collects BX's, and theres nothing wrong with that. BUT if a BX comes on the forum/ebay for sale etc he snaps it up before anyone else get ths opportunity and has "jumped the que" a few times too.

The cars in question then normally get tarted up, and sold on again for a higher price soon after on ebay without being offered to the forum. I doubt he makes any money but even so its the way its done which is a but underhand!. Also there is some questions about the authenticity of bidders on ebay after the cars reappeare very soon afterwards!.

Not really fair when a genuine enthusiast who hasnt got a BX is after one and he already has about 10 in variou states of repair. best to just stick on one and get that sorted.

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:13 am

It's not specifically anti anyone it's just disbelief about caddish behaviour. We are a losely organised group but there has always been a sort of honour,and a transparancy to aquiring/buying/selling BXs here.

Lurk in the shadows here , hide your face and pick up the for sale ads then act in a covert manner like a low budget Murdoch. I don't believe it's the behaviour of an 'enthusiast' of anything apart from perhaps mental health problems

Kitch · Post by **Kitch** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:17 pm

Roverman wrote:
PhilGreaves wrote:I hate to ask a stupid question but am i missing something? In my absense has something happened? (refering to the antiRichard stuff)
If you look round the forum you will find plenty of stuff about it, Richard is a chap/car dealer from Yorkshire, who collects BX's, and theres nothing wrong with that. BUT if a BX comes on the forum/ebay for sale etc he snaps it up before anyone else get ths opportunity and has "jumped the que" a few times too.

The cars in question then normally get tarted up, and sold on again for a higher price soon after on ebay without being offered to the forum. I doubt he makes any money but even so its the way its done which is a but underhand!. Also there is some questions about the authenticity of bidders on ebay after the cars reappeare very soon afterwards!.

Not really fair when a genuine enthusiast who hasnt got a BX is after one and he already has about 10 in variou states of repair. best to just stick on one and get that sorted.

I fear this will be the fate of the Digit. I did try to contact David.R to see if I could take it on as a resto, he just ignored me

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:21 pm

I actually visited that yard about 2 weeks ago, and I drive right past it on my way home from work, and had I got there first, I probably would have bought it. But... only to sell on. To stop it from being destroyed. I have enough cars as it is, as I'm sure many of us do.

Post by **Tim Leech** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:26 pm

Matt H wrote:I actually visited that yard about 2 weeks ago, and I drive right past it on my way home from work, and had I got there first, I probably would have bought it. But... only to sell on. To stop it from being destroyed. I have enough cars as it is, as I'm sure many of us do.

Buying to save from the crusher is a noble, but I fear this car wont be offered for sale on here when the time comes for it to "move on". But to the highest bidder.

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:42 pm

So be it... I'd rather that, than what happened to the last car I wanted to buy from there. An Opel Kadette 1.3s. It had a few valuable and extremely rare parts taken off, and it was stacked on top of another car. Turned a viable project into something that was destined for the crusher - At least this GT will be spared that fate.

Who else was actually going to go there and put down cold hard cash for it. £500 to be exact. Some people on here resent paying £200 for one that has tax and test. As it stands it isn't realistically worth that. Who would actually pay that? If you offered that car on here for £500 you'd be laughed at. It would be another "scrap value only" BX.

toddao · Post by **toddao** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:05 pm

/\ how much does he pay you to do his press?

This GT - from first impressions - is not a 200 quid nail it does actually seem to be worth the 500 asking price.

The issue here is whether someone has got a spine or not and not really how much tin they've accumulated.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:11 pm

I dunno - if it's just a case of tarting it up a bit and the engine is good and the mileage is genuine I reckon it could be worth a grand easy. The point is there's not many about and there is a huge kudos to having the earlier model and what's a few hundred quid here and there if it fulfils someone's dream?

Richard is just fulfilling the liberal economic dream I guess. It can get to be a bit of an obsession, 'desire' and makes people do some funny things. I can't believe he's not making money out of it. I seem to remember he gazzumped me on one but I double-gazzumped him by persuading the seller to sell it to someone else

I guess the feeling is one of terror that you might be missing out on something. Either that or mental.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:19 pm

mat_fenwick wrote:
scarecrow wrote:to my mind a phase I should have little indicators... I think Todd has a phase I that looks like a phase II with the bigger indicators.
Mark 1s all had little orange indicators, Mark 2s all had the clear larger ones. For the 16v (always a Mk2) there was a Phase 1 (silver wheels, black splitter on front bumper) and a Phase 2 (dark grey wheels, one piece moulded front bumper with splitter). Personally I prefer the looks of the Mk2, both inside and out but I am in a minority I think. Although I will admit the Mk1 dashboard is cool!

Hi Matt -I see. I thought someone said Tod's red Berline was a Mk1 but I may have got crossed with a conversation about the yellow Break. Phew.

Little indicators are better and somehow the mk 1s look pointier

Matt H · Post by **Matt H** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:25 pm

toddao wrote:/\ how much does he pay you to do his press?

This GT - from first impressions - is not a 200 quid nail it does actually seem to be worth the 500 asking price.

The issue here is whether someone has got a spine or not and not really how much tin they've accumulated.

I'm not going to comment on this so called 'Richard'... I have never met him, and I don't spend enough time here to even understand when, why or who he has upset.

I just love BXs and cars in general. Can't be doing with any forum/car club bullshit. People will disagree, dislike each other and fight over anything in life. It's in our nature... It's really quite funny what people get upset about.

You'll be sending him death threats next...

(I'm not kidding, I've heard some horrifying stories about Vauxhall owners clubs in the past)

Dollywobbler · Post by **Dollywobbler** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:03 pm

I'm just frustrated that someone appears to be running around buying every car I express an interest in. I know first come, first served, but it really is going a bit far. How many does one person need? I don't have one BX at the moment.