My Peugeot 205 1.6 GTi

Ahhh, my youth (or young 20's anyway!). I had a 1.6GTI in my younger days. Spun it a few times playing with lift off oversteer! Great cars but very fragile
 
I had a Golf Gti while a mate had a 1.9 Pug back in..cough cough...the golf was lovely and solid and fast..the pug was just that bit faster and more go-kart like.
An American friend who was in the USAF had a 1.6 maybe 3 yrs ago. He exported it to Texas...where he smallest cars most folk drive are Hummer size, it may be the only registered Pug GTi in the US of A...or at the very most, 1 of a handful
Great little cars.
Ta for sharing the pics. :thumbsup:
 
D6GMB said:
That looks in really good condition for its age.Do you know if it has been restored or is it as it left the factory?.
I had a wee MK2 XR2 as my hobby car but sold it when I bought the Z4MR,i wish I hadn't and still miss it,was on sale last year on Ebay from the guy who I sold to
but resisted putting a bid in.




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Wow! That is one clean looking car. I remember years ago putting my first 205 into a garage to have a new distributor built and the mechanic came and picked me up in a green mk2 xr2i. I remember thinking it was ridiculously fast and later found out that he had put a modified RS Turbo engine in it.

My 205 isn't quite as clean as it looks in the pictures. It's far from ready for the scrap yard but is still in need of some TLC. Having had the time to lift all the carpets and crawl underneath the car now it looks to be all the original paint unless it was painted very well, very early in it's life. No rust under the floor or under the car. little bits here and there and a rotten inner wing but all fixable. The front bumper has been replaced at some point along with the grill but there is no sign of work or damage to the wings so I don't know if it was a parking scrape. There's certainly never been a registered insurance claim.

The last owner of the car was a bit of a plank. After 5 minutes looking over the car I knew more about it than he did. He botched a few jobs and clearly decided a car of this age wasn't for him. He only had it since October last year. The owner before him was an old boy who had kept it more than 10 years after buying it from an elderly neighbour. He did 4k miles a year, had it serviced like clockwork and kept all receipts. The baffling thing is that supposedly this guy only had one hand. How he ever parked the thing using one arm is beyond me... Maybe that explains the bumper?
 
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