1987 BX 17RD "Bleriot"

[vulgalour]

I'm back!



Collecting this weekend.

[sparksie]

Very pretty.
Never see those any more, even on my trips to the city.
Given how most of them dissolved in the rain over here, I'm amazed there are any BXs left in salt laden UK.
Somebody must have looked after it well.
Here's hoping you reap the reward for their vigilance

[white exec]

Now that looks nice. Look after it - and a good underside/cavity waxing!
Look forward to a full report when you get hands on it.

[Hell Razor5543]

That is a beautiful looking car. Have fun with her.

[RichardW]

Welcome back!

Looks nice. Some corrosion in the MOT history, but not too bad.

How many left reports just 311 taxed BXs in the UK, with a further 1100 on SORN.... compared to 180,000 licensed at end of production in 1994!

[white exec]

That's a large number on SORN - so lots of folk who can't bear to be parted from them.
Would jump at another one in a trice if the price were right.

[vulgalour]

The two that were local - one red, one white, both hatchbacks - have disappeared recently. I fear the worst.

There's few things that look better than a white BX and this one has the lovely grey cloth interior too. It needs the usual BX stuff, nothing too horrendous, and it's been with the right sort of owner recently, I know what I'm getting myself into at least. It will need a bit of work to the inner wings in the usual place, and a bit on the rear door sill-to-arch bit. It will also need a couple of suspension pipes and just a general going over.

The car itself is appealing for being a basey model. No sunroof, no turbo, no power steering and the lesser seen 1.7 diesel engine. Really the only things that could have made it more right for me would be a petrol engine and a Mk1 nose. That said, this is a really right looking car as it stands, so I'm plan to keep it exactly as Citroen intended.

Should look well alongside the Princess.

[Pug_XUD_KeenAmateur]

Good to see you back Vulgalour and welcome to the realms of na Diesel owners. I too had a look at its History, looks promising.

Very much my sort of a car that, enjoy it and share your stories

NB: I dunno how the na XUD compares to the Turbo, having never driven one; but performance is to me within acceptable boundaries.... unlike a Perkins 1.6 Orion I once owned

[vulgalour]

This one was non-turbo and I found it more than adequate. I expect this hatchback will be similar since the estate carries a little more weight which was offset by the slightly bigger 1.9 engine. It's all the fault of that estate that I ended up trying to get myself back into a white BX.

[myglaren]

I had a 'pink' 1.9 RD estate. Wonderful thing, pretty quick and quiet, supremely comfortable and relaxed to drive and it clocked up a lot of miles in the short time I had it.
Swallowed absolutely tons of work gear, washing machines etc.

Had to let it go for a cracked head I couldn't afford to fix. Regret that bitterly.

[moizeau]

Nice, good luck with it, check the angle of the rear wheels though.
I had a pink E reg hatch 1.9RD, superb car, scrapped it with over 400k miles due to the back end pretty much falling off. Never had to change anything engine wise apart from glow plugs, alt brushes and a recon of the inj pump at 200k. About a year before I weighed it in it became 1/2 pink. My brother borrowed it and decided to T Cut the RHS!

[white exec]

1.9RD was decently powerful, and very civilised to travel in. Our G-reg mk.2 returned 44mpg average daily commuting. Some of the best seats, driving position, interior space and headlights to be had!

Yes - check out those rear wheels for verticality. It's the trailing arm bearings that go; easily fixed.

[vulgalour]

I'll be checking through everything when I get it back. I haven't bought this with my head so I've not taken a particularly rational approach to purchase.

I know it's had welding and that it needs welding. It's a BX, this is to be expected. I'm also collecting it on a flatbed instead of driving it home now because it decided that to spite us all it was going to burst a front-to-back pipe, so I'll be replacing those first. It's a BX, this is to be expected.

This will be my third white LHM Citroen. The first was the aforementioned BX. The second was a Xantia 1.9 turbo diesel estate, itself a very good car but with a seating position I found incredibly painful and which I couldn't resolve, even with softer seats from a Peugeot. A shame, it was a nice car to own, except for constantly wishing it the BX estate I had before it. That's how I ended up with the Rover, a stop-gap car that stuck with me for over three years and which I've enjoyed owning and improving immensely. The problem was when I got the Princess sorted out I pretty much stopped using the Rover and because I both don't want it sitting idle and can't afford to keep three cars on the road, I was just waiting for the right shove to move it on. So here we are, white Citroen number three. I'm exchanging a completely sorted, reliable, frugal, comfortable car that's been a loyal servant for several years for a car that's already broken and needs a bit of love while relying on a car that had a poor reputation for reliability when new and almost no aftermarket parts support today.

You don't have to be daft to own a Citroen, but it certainly helps.

[sparksie]

My kinda guy!
Good luck and don't forget to keep us posted

[white exec]

Where are you based, by the way?