Classic for under £10K

[MattBLancs]

Aye, well other than that can we chalk that one as an improvement over the Caddy?


P.s.
Agree with you on the colour, white cars never appeal to me either. Does nothing for the shape somehow, flattens it.
And it'd look perpetually dirty.

We could soon hoik the badge off with a screwdriver and a bit of violence (but I'm taking you too literally there, aren't I!)

[mickthemaverick]

Hoiking the badge, though a great idea, wouldn't make the seats more comfortable or the indicators work so no good to me!! I've had my share of white cars so made my contribution to tth car wash industry 10 fold.
I have to say that black is almost as bad but with everything else being brilliant I am living with it for my 3rd time, the previous two being my first car the Moggy and my BX19 16V !!

[MattBLancs]

Never owned a white car but dad had white work vans (Bedford rascal, Citroen C15D, the little Renault van (name escapes me!)) and they always looked just ready for a wash

Black C5 - yep agree not good at hiding the muck either.


Seats and indicators= yep fair enough they'd need separately sorting. I was being tongue in cheek about levering the badge to fix that issue.

[mickthemaverick]

You reminded me there Matt, I had a white C15 van too and it always looked grubby. Not sure if that was the colour or the style!

[MattBLancs]

You reminded me there Matt, I had a white C15 van too and it always looked grubby. Not sure if that was the colour or the style!

Definitely the right vehicle to get away with being both white and grubby!

[mickthemaverick]

This is the only picture I have of that van, taken near my old workshop!!

The day I collected it from Blackbushe auction

[MattBLancs]

This is the only picture I have of that van, taken near my old workshop!!

Didn't they wash it for you!?

[MattBLancs]

Sorry for dragging the thread off topic,

Here's one for sale, trip to France to pick it up though:
1994 Citroen C15 White Manual, 5 speed Left Hand Drive in Rochefort-du-Gard, France - For Sale | Car & Classic https://share.google/3HUAHIyUZpTeXd472

And better yet it's suitably grubby too!

Sellers image from listing

[mickthemaverick]

Here's a tempter for the early 205 GTi 1.6 fans:

[CitroJim]

Ohh, that rather lovely and the right colour too

[Gibbo2286]

You reminded me there Matt, I had a white C15 van too and it always looked grubby. Not sure if that was the colour or the style!

I had a white Austin Westminster, if I got into traffic they all for some reason obeyed the speed limit.

[CitroJim]

This is a great way of spending just under 10K

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1856599

Quite amazing... Trouble is, I would be far too scared to ever drive it...

[MattBLancs]

This is a great way of spending just under 10K

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1856599

Quite amazing... Trouble is, I would be far too scared to ever drive it...

That's the sort of classic / future classic that does not appeal to me! Not the car, which is a lovely colour and obvious looks well, but sub-900 miles (and priced accordingly!) it's in that annoying "a shame to use it" status. I'm very much more that cars are to be driven. Sorry I am out!

[moizeau]

Got to agree with Jim and Matt. Ok if you want to put in in a display, that's it. There was a 1984 GPz1100 for sale over here a while back with 200ish km on the clock for 10k euros. Same thing, put it in a glass cabinet. The biggest problem if you wanted to use is that you'd have to throw so much time and money into it to get it recommissioned including, probably, an engine rebuild due to age of all those rubber seals etc. and you haven't started on the rest yet.

[mickthemaverick]

Here's a rare car, anyone driven the electric clutch?

BFTW

Details here