Super, beautiful car Jack.
Still a great looking car, way ahead of its time, when you see some of similar looking box's out now, where are the designers?
Super, beautiful car Jack.
Still a great looking car, way ahead of its time, when you see some of similar looking box's out now, where are the designers?
A friend of mine he's dad had one and when they were going out all the kid's on the road would gather round and watch the car lift up on the suspension we were fascinated great memories
Yeah, it certainly is. One has to start the car and wait for it to rise before they can drive off. Maybe there’s a lesson in that for us in this day and age?
I had a Citroën in the 80s. Dont remember the model but it has a flat back. It was the smoothest car over rough roads. The brakes and suspension were linked somehow and when one went so did the other. The single spoke steering wheel was a bit weird. Jack probably knows the one I'm talking about
jacktherev
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Gender: Location: Co Antrim Age: 76 Posts: 6955 Registered: 01 / 2012 My Motorhome: Adria Vision Base Vehicle: Renault
Citroen had a few in the 80s. It could possible be a BX or if it was an executive car a CX. The BX was a very popular car. Another one was the GS Pallas.
sprinter
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Yeah, it certainly is. One has to start the car and wait for it to rise before they can drive off. Maybe there’s a lesson in that for us in this day and age?
We had a customer who had absolutely no patience, and our forman, gave him a hacksaw, and told him to either cut off the gate stop, or set his feckin alarm clock earlier, because we were never fixing the exhaust on his, you quested it his DS.
He never did come back or returned the saw.
TommyS
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The Citreon BX suspension spheres were a direct fit for some Bentley & rolls Royce. A rolls Royce silver shadow uses the same brake master cylinders as a Ford tractor and is fitted with 2 brake callipers/pads on each wheel that were used on a ford escort mk2. I’ve had the misfortune of briefly owing one !
Briefly owing one....was that a typo or a Freudian slip?
What I was thinking was which one, had he the misfortune to own, was it the Bentley, Rolls, Tractor,or MK2, escort, because he surly didn't mean the BX?
I bought a Bentley turbo R in a moment of madness.
Paddy (me) goes to UK as he normally did to buy stock….. stock in short supply….
Bentley turbo R goes through block, Paddy raises hand, Paddy owns Bentley turbo R.
Drove up M6 and found suspension =NIL
Brakes like treading in treacle….. teeth rattled out of my head when I reached Stranraer for the ferry.
Sorted it out with BX spheres, brakes overhaul (hence my experience) and kept it a year….. biggest ball of s***e I ever had, sold it to a film production company in Dublin where it was the Bentley in the TV series called rough diamond.
Lesson learned.
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