Anyone Know This 205?

[Mr Teflon 1 1 Cars]

I'm toying with buying another 205 to keep alongside the 405. Want as early as possible and saw this on PH

1985

 

Had a chat with the vendor this evening and it's had 14 owners. Anyone know it?

 

Cheers

Darren

[welshpug 1,657]

don't know it, but it looks a decent example of a fairly early car, proper phase 1.

 

missing its tailgate spoiler, aka droopy tash as a mate calls them though I think these were just bonded not screwed like the P1.5 on spoilers.

 

 

with 14 owners over 26 years and 135k miles, that's not too bad really, about 9k miles each and 18 months or so !

[SurGie 54]

My D reg GT has its rear spoier screwed in, but the outer casing was clipped in iirc.

 

Im quite interested in this one if i had the dosh for it, any one want a black 306 gti 6 in top nick

 

 

All depends on the condition of the body though

Edited March 7, 2011 by SurGie

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Alarm bells, Wrong wings as B reg's didn;t have side repeaters, Wrong seats, Wrong instruments, Wrong switch gear and thats from the Pictures

[Baz 421]

I was eyeing that up spotting the things Miles says above last night!

 

Steering wheel, clocks, etc... aside from it being far from original it doesn't look & sound too bad.

[SurGie 54]

Looking at the pics in the larger spec there's more thats not right than what Miles spotted and for the looks its a bit cheap

[Mr Teflon 1 1 Cars]

Cheers fellas.

 

Got more pictures sent through last night, you never can tell without seeing them in the flesh but it looks straight enough. Hadn't noticed the dials though.

 

At this age and especially price I'm expecting to a) renew all running gear and some restoration of original features anyway (ask me what I haven't changed on the 405) but it's only a £500 starting point at the end of the day.

 

It looks like the car was imported from Ireland early in it's life as the V5 states '88 as first year of registration so I need to have sight of the chassis number to confirm year of manufacture. In light of comments above I'd like to dig a little deeper.

 

Anyone know of any other '84/'85 cars for sale? I really like the silver '88 1.6 with 39k on it for sale at the mo - but I'm not up for paying anywhere near £4k

[Anthony 1,003]

Alarm bells, Wrong wings as B reg's didn;t have side repeaters, Wrong seats, Wrong instruments, Wrong switch gear and thats from the Pictures

This. Whilst you'd perhaps expect some parts to have been replaced on a car of this age, there does seem to be an awful lot all over the car that doesn't tie up and you really need to look into why.

 

There could be a perfectly innocent explanation, or it could be a ringer from a later car. Buyer beware!

 

Reminds me of someone I knew that bought a K-reg 205 and was pleased as punch with it. Until I pointed out that it had an grey Phase 1.5 dash, earlier electrics, earlier seats, earlier wings, a BE1 gearbox, and that, on reflection, it did seem quite unlikely that it was the car that it claimed to be and that it perhaps wasn't the bargain that he originally thought...

[u47sb2 27 2 Cars]

The switch gear/interior certainly seems a mismatch. Door cards and sliding heater controls appear correct and the gear stick has the collar for lift up reverse but dials and seats are not right. It's silver which might be confusing my eyes but the door and wheelarch trim appear too black for an early car (normally a faded grey). I'd be very suspicious of the later wings as if the car is a genuine '86 someone has gone to the bother of wiring in the indicators. Still, it's about as cheap as they come now and is currently MOT'd - complete project cars without MOT seem to be attracting at least that now!!

[Mr Teflon 1 1 Cars]

Thanks for the advice everyone - I'll give this one a miss.

 

If anyone knows of any other early (84/85) cars for sale I'd be grateful for a heads up.

 

Thanks

Darren