Thanks mate, cheque's in the post!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

We agreed on the C6!

@joshonthetube

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage Have you heard, he also has an SM?

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

@@joshonthetube really?!

Also, that number on the A-pillar - 4938 - is the RP (replacement parts) code. It's basically the build date (17 May 1990) so if there are any changeovers in parts, they're normally listed by RP number, or the date of it.

@UPnDOWN

Жыл бұрын

Or 17 May 1990 if it's 4958...it's hard to see!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Aha! that could be very good to know! thanks!

@citromec

Жыл бұрын

6 June 1990 😉

@UPnDOWN

Жыл бұрын

@@citromec trust me to copy and paste 😆

@citromec

Жыл бұрын

@@UPnDOWN 😆 its gotta be a 5, the orga calculator i used said 6/6 1990. But now I have to check again 🤯

This is soooooo cool! Never knew these existed! I still remember seeing BX’s (not AWD though) everywhere, and now you never see them anymore. It will make a great service “Van” for Seaside garage!

I've owned a BX 4wd in the past. They are so cool! The engine is a DDZ 1.9 109 bhp monopoint.

Nice to see it survive into a safe pair of hands.👍👍

As they say in French: bon courage ! It will be an epic effort but it will be worth it, as this is an unique and rare 4WD BX.

That's an awesome car man, you got the skills and what an awesome daily classic it'll make!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

It would tick a lot of boxes for sure!

Fantastic!!!!!!! I will be able to watch both UPnDown and Seaside........eventually😁 to get my green blood fix.

You’re not mad. That’s a very interesting example of the 4wd revolution that came around that time.

A love watching you videos,you have so many projects we don’t see in the US. Keep up the good work!

Wow! What a rare car. Looking forward to its progress with you.

Fantastic, looking forward to the next episode :)

Great to see this one being taken care of! 👍 I'm gonna start the restoration of mine after my DS is done. We might start almost simultaneously with our BX restos 😅

I’m glad you are mad 🤪 Nice project! Looking forward to it and all your ongoing projects! 🎉

You've just out-BX'ed the Tomato. What a cool thing.

That's a cool find especially being the Break/ Estate as well!! hopefully you can get the rear subframe/ axle back on for now and get the BX running again 🙂

The radio cover works by pushing it back, then it springs down ;)

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Doh! I even had 4 cars with that function! and still I forgot!

What a great car. Some of those switches and controls look just like the ones in a Peugeot 305. We had a couple of those back in the 80s. I learned to drive in one of them, the GTX.

Good luck, you’ll need it, seriously, thank you

The BX may be designed by Gandini but the BX Break was built by Heuliez. they also make custom car bodies like ambulances and hearses.

@VirtuaDesign

Жыл бұрын

Even cooler is the fact that Gandini designed it to be a Volvo! It was called the Volvo Tundra, and basically he just replaced the pop up headlights for fixed ones and the offset Volvo grille by the Citröen chevrons. Design recycling at it's best! 😅

great find never knew they did one!! We had 4 x 4 bx 5 dr hatches over here in the UK in the 80's/90's but not estates. Similar to my Skoda Octavia Scout now in many ways! Hope you can get it going will look forward to the next video

Love the car and I really like your channel - it’s my favourite channel for modern classics. Good luck with the project. As long as there’s not too much corrosion In important areas, it will be fine. It might just take a while sourcing parts, but that can be quite fun in itself!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

How great to hear ! :D

Bx 4x4! very rare beautiful car.

I'm subscribed. I'm with you all the way on this one. Good luck hope you're lucky with how good it actually is and you can save it.

Fin video, har aldrig set en 4wd før , bliver spændende at følge 😊

Hi, the best of luck, you are going to need it. Many thanks.

Fantastic! i wouldn't write that off ,I have put back together worse! Just give it a clean and have a good look what's missing and what you have in the spares. Before you even look at doing anything more with it. The car i put back together, i had to scavenge many scrap cars, for the daft odds and sods, and even had to take notes on how things went back together! Off topic, i know a peugeot 405 4x4 exists but i never knew they did a BX version let a lone a an AX 4x4! I will be watching how you get on with this, as i do like this, and i do own a peugeot 306!

Do love a BX.

Now that is a car I would love to own!

I owned this ;-) I just got an email from the guy who gave it to you. He bought it from me in 2014 here in northern Denmark. At that time it was still running. I didn't have time to fix it for MOT. He wanted to use it for parts. I made a couple of steel plates for the rubber mounts under the rear end ( dunno what their called ) ;-) As you say they are impossible to find, so I made my own with some industrial rubber shock absorbers. Obviously they're not up for the task 🤣 Fantastic winter vehicle...miss it ! I have some documentation on the 4wd ...write me if you want it. Cheers

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

How cool is that! Så er du jo nok dansk! :) Jeg vil meget gerne have lidt mere historie på bilen, så hvis du har lyst til at skrive en mail med hvad du ved om den til Seppowashuus@gmail.com ville det være fedt!

@AllanKorup

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage Yep... Indeed... I'm Danish and will email you 🤙🎯

very cool car! my brother had a bx19 some years ago. just front wheel drive tho. but it reved 8000 rpm without problems 🤣

Supercool Seppo 👍

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Tak!

Brave man! I look forward to following the progress on it though. Should be an interesting revival. Best of luck. I notice a page in the newspaper in the footwell that said something like Bog People, made me laugh.

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hehe Yea!.. its the bog people estate!

There was a single 4x4-one for sale here in Germany (I think even a red one, too), which was listed for AGES. And then it suddenly sold. I really REALLY hope it didn't get bought as a parts donor.

Great cars. I had a GTi and a 16trs

Learn something new everyday I never new they made 4x4 citreon bx

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

check out the 4tc!

12:30 If you find a talented upholstery-shop they may be able to "plug" that (if not replace that piece of fabric) and make it look all good without replacing everything.

The BX 4WD estate is a great car amd project, looking forward to more on this and the other cars. Would be great to see you and Mr Kitch (of UpnDown) doing one or two cross-over videos. Nice one fella :)

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Could be fun! Maybe Kitch could swing by and fix the few mechanical issues this car might have.... then I can vacuum it and drive it! :P

Hvor heldig kan man være, og så endda i Danmark 🤯

never knew they made a BX 4x4

Push the radio cover in to unlatch it. Should close then.

grats man, wait till you hear about the 2cv safari :P

I never knew they did a 4x4 a very cool car .

I saw you today in Chester, you were driving a blue van, I was in a silver Vauxhall estate

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

hmm... I doubt it.. ;) I live in Denmark

Well this is the second one of these i've ever seen, the other one was parked outside Matalan at Lakeside retail park, I almost, nearly hung about waiting for the owner to try and buy it off them. however SWMBO prevailed... ;-)

In terms of how far gone it is rustwise, it makes me more sad knowing my BX wasn't quite this far (though the front door hinges were hanging on by luck, the amount of rust (and air-gaps!) around the hinge plates was pretty bad!), but overall was in pretty solid-ish condition, bar the broken tailgate lock & window and a few other points, like, say, the timing belt! I wish I could go back in time and rescue the thing from myself... :(

The 4x4 was rare! I didn't even know they did an Estate version. Although at the same time the Estate is basically a hatch floorpan with another section of hatch floorpan welded on at the end! 🤣 Shame really never offered with the 16v engine, although IIRC it was a bit fragile even with the lower powered engine.

This is going to be fun! Best of luck with it. Held og lykke...lol 😝🤪 Yes, you are mad!!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Mad about mad cars!

@doktoruzo

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage ..lol, helt sikkert

'Patroens' is spelled 'Patreons'. 🙈 A BX 4x4. Wow! Great barn find that is. Nice project ahead. Better do a nice job on it. Not just to make it road worthy. Otherwise it may end up on the scrapyard sooner than you think. So clean and treat all the rust, conserve it on in- and outside. Afterwards repaint the parts. And you are good to go.

Hope the coolness of this car makes up for all the nightmares it hides 🤣

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Cant see how I cant do that! its coolness overload!

holly molly... this is an hero one

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

as in... it takes a hero ? or it IS a hero? ;)

@matta6554

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage you are definitely a hero, and it's a unicorn : )

Oh yes! I prefer the wagon better than the Sedan version!

Def worth saving, - there can't be that many 4wd left, - must have been a rare bird even from new ! Due to the drilled inserted rubber caps, - this car must have had some rust protection in the past, - so it may not be that bad to rescue !

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Its pretty common praxis to give cars rust protection in Denmark many did it every 3 years or so...

I think it's epic.

what a great car I love it and yes of course youre mad thats why we watch

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

:D

You should get a steam cleaner, would come in handy for future carpets and seats

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

id love one!

My brother has a Citroen Xantia and with the sphere suspension you can barely feel turns

Now that is a cool car! 😍Here in Finland I've never seen one that wasn't "a tax evasion van" with a huge extension on the roof to fool the government. 😂

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Haha so they build it into a van?

@villejussila1599

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they added a plastic box on the roof as soon as the car was shipped here and that somehow made the car classify as a van. I'm not sure if there was even any storage space in that box. 😂

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

@@villejussila1599 haha! Very random!

Den er åndsvagt cool! Det er skægt som man kan blive decideret opstemt af træk på alle hjul! 😛

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Det er ret mærkeligt! men det kan altså bare noget!!

I love it. But yes, you are mad. 😃 As others have said, I did not know there was such a thing. It must be extremely rare. So……with your skills and knowledge it has a chance.

Fascinating id love to see underneath this car

Hopefully all the parts in the back aren't the old ones from the other car that were replaced by parts from this one! Are the rear subframe mounts the same as on the FWD cars? I suspect not as the frame would have mounts for the diff and drive shaft uprights.

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Oh yea... haha Did´t even think of that! lets hope not.. ;)

Gandini design the 16 Soupaps. Bertone designed the BX berline. Heuliez designed the Break

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Ah! :D

Woow:)

Those rear subframe bushings look like old landrover engine mounts, aka the cheapest possible rubber mounts. I would be useful to learn more about the nature of the 4x4 system, is it Citroen's own engineering or a conversation by an outside company like dangel?, in much the same way as heuliez making the rear bodywork for the estates.

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Still looking into it... Its seems to be a rather special setup

5:11 Why not get some large poly bushes to replace those with?

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Or make my own! I had hoped to find the original mount and the rerubber it... but its not here!

@theotherchannel2279

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage Whatever you do that car is a keeper, it may take a lot of work but the end of it will be worth it. Most of that rust is surface anyway, apart from the big hole but you are more than capable of sorting that out. Looking forward to seeing this going again.

Push the radio cover then it returns.

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Bingo! thanks!

Could this replace the Niva...? Tough choice even if you ask me! Would I though.. I think I would I prefer the BX but the Niva suits you more...?

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

I am considering it right now!

It's not an ABS one, you'd see the ABS hydraulic control unit just behind the airbox if it was.

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Yea, so no torson diff... but less stuff to go wrong!

@fastdruid

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage I mean it's a BX 4x4, there is *plenty* to go wrong... 🤣 Still want one though!

AWD! That's too cool. That poor car has seen it's share of road salt :( Poor car!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Its a hard hard life here.... for cars

Den er alt for sej Seppo….kunne dog havde været list fedt hvis det var en TRD med den lækre 1.9 turbo dieselmotor….så en break for nylig til salg tæt på hvor jeg bor men den havde sat sig i kuglerne så den var ikke lige til at flytte…❤️

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Jeg fortrækker faktisk benzin i den slags biler! :) Den her er heller ikke helt nem at flytte rundt med! haha

@filipnielsen4042

Жыл бұрын

Ja det kan jeg også godt forstå…min fars fætter driver Autosmeden i Roskilde og han er specialist i Citroën og ihvertfald også BX så mangler du noget kunne man altid få fat i ham…🙈

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

@@filipnielsen4042 fedt!! :D

So much nicer than your lada

One of the last interesting cars Citreon did

There off road capability is ridiculous! I saw one miles up a farm track that would have stopped a lot of the better dedicated 4x4s!

Ready for crushing.......cars in Europe have a tough time with rust.....looks like it has been in a river for years

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

They are all like this from that era unless they where only driven in the summer

Cool car, but it feels like you have a bit too many. Can you really store them all in a way where your restoration progress will be faster than nature's attempts to reclaim them?

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Hah yea its a bit much! But they are all stored dry and nice inside.. so no worries there!

very rare car i do agree, dont let the romance of something rare run away with you, well get it up on the ramp first, i also watch up and down and the tomato is kicking his butt at every turn, please lets see a couple cars finished am struggling to keep up with what you are working on,,

Monstrosity. 😄 ..Sorry, but it is!

@SeasideGarage

Жыл бұрын

Its like fine wine

@DetroitMicroSound

Жыл бұрын

@@SeasideGarage More like a parts car. Sorry bud, but I just think the previous owner was right in just using it as a parts car. They look amazing, as a widebody 4TC Group B though! 😉