Citroen DS Safari
Jamie Harvey
Dealing with my mother's estate we've just had to retrieve a
DS23 Safari. It has been in storage for 5 years or so, and
while not looking too bad from a distance is suffering from
corrosion and also the panel fit isn't very good as it had
been 'restored' by a garage that used to be based in Battersea
and they had paid much more attention in spraying it to
make it look shiny than actually doing a quality restoration.
We also have a Citroen DS21 shaped pile of fairly rusty body
work and mechanical parts - also in dry storage for the last
8 years or so.
At some stage we will be looking to dispose of them both. The
DS23 might be MOTable after a fair amount of mostly minor work,
but is really more of a project vehicle. If anyone might be
interested then please get in touch. The cars are in the Watford
area and we could probably deliver them if the distance isn't
too great.
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Jamie Harvey
John Sabine
I'd be interested in knowing more about the Safari in particular:
can you give me a little more detail about the state it is actually in,
and the work you think might be needed to make it legal/driveable?
Also, if you get no takers for the DS21 heap it might be worth
contacting Andrew Brodie Engineering in Willesden (phone
number on website www.brodie.co.uk, ask for Stuart): he will
normally pay a couple of hundred quid for a car for breaking.
Cheers
John
Jamie Harvey
<sabi...@aol.com> writes
>I'd be interested in knowing more about the Safari in particular:
>can you give me a little more detail about the state it is actually in,
>and the work you think might be needed to make it legal/driveable?
Well, firstly, oops, because they are both Safaris. Our old 21 is
a K-reg IIRC (is that 1975?) and the 23 is a little bit younger.
I can't remember why we stopped using it, but I'll see if my brother
can remember more. When we recently came to collect it we couldn't get
it to turn over well but it looks like this could be down to the starter
motor. We might try changing it for the one off the 21 if they're the
same. In the end we had to connect a separate electric motor with
pulley to the accumulator using a belt but the suspension happily
rose to full height. My brother mentioned a possibility of rust
under the passenger foot well, and there may be other MOT failure
points. I'll see what we can do about getting it running and let
you know what we find.
>Also, if you get no takers for the DS21 heap it might be worth
>contacting Andrew Brodie Engineering in Willesden (phone
>number on website www.brodie.co.uk, ask for Stuart): he will
>normally pay a couple of hundred quid for a car for breaking.
Thanks, that could be useful to know.
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Jamie Harvey