Show me/educate me... Citroen AX

Hope it woriks out well for you, I found our 1.5D great as a super-cheap daily (once I'd fixed the various faults)  

Follow the links in the old sales ad for build thread & roadtrips
retrorides.proboards.com/thread/153368/reg-tax-long-sunderland-sold

A lad near me had a 1.1 full GT replica when I was a young teenager in the early 00's. It was red, lowered on white compomotive alloys, centre exit letterbox exhaust and twin morette headlights. Always loved that car, I even asked my dad if I could buy it when he blew the engine and put a for sale sign in it for £250, but only being about 15 he said no.

This was mine, affectionately named Toilet owing to its plate, was the most fun little car ever. Ate 2 gearboxes though and was a 5 speed, quite hard to find at the time. Thenone on the drive I picked up for £25 after finding it on a back road on it's roof and leaving a note, had a mint interior and engine having only done 27k, pushed it onto its wheels and drove it home. Gave it to my brother but the discovery of a lot of hidden rot sealed it's fate. Bought another 1.0 Dimension from the scrappy for £80, had it nearly 2 years but hydrolocked it after driving what I imagined was a puddle that turned out to be nearly 5 foot deep weighed it in for £90. Would love another one day.

I had a red 1.1 Forte, they came with the GT bodykit and for a 1.1 felt pretty nippy.
It had a blacked out windows,K&N filter,nice exhaust and believe a bit of other work. I still have the original wider steels it came with as I fitted AX gt alloys.
The registration was M4 XGT or M4X GT/M AX GT if I was feeling daring.

Seeing pictures with black GTi kits just made me want to see them painted




But I love the original Citroen rear arch on this with the hi-light 'stripe' to show it off






forgot about this roadster showcar

Pretty Much Spot on, my Stepfather has one which he purchased new in Spain in 1991, he still has it now, basically a no frills AX GT (no alloys, basic interior, though same seats, no elec windows, central locking etc). The poor thing has about 240,000km on it now (he used to live in Spain and teach int he UK for 6 months of the year, so it did mega miles) and lives in the barn in their place in France now, he'll never sell it!

I used it for a few months back in the late 90's when my head gasket blew on my Mk2 GTI, quite a fun little car, and suprisingly quick.

I'll wade in here and throw a few bits in the mixing pot. Currently I own 4 Ax's. My GTi turbo, a mk1 GT track car, a mk1 GT5, and a 1.4 Forte. They are super fun as standard and even more so with 4 stud and Saxo running gear.
The axownersclub went to Holland and the Nordschliefe last summer and had a blast. I went round in sub 10 minutes in a vts engined throttle bodied beast, and the vts turbo ax got banned after one lap for registering 140db! That thing flies like you wouldn't believe, 170+mph on the Autobahn with the bodied vts hitting 150ish and mine was lagging behind clocking 135ish.

Sky is the limit with mods, I'm £0000's into mine and around 175bhp when working well, Tb'd vts is 178bhp but so useable and the turbo vts is 250-300bhp and being built to 350-400

I will post some pics when I switch to my laptop in a bit

Another 16V AX on the ring

I smashed 2 1.1 gearboxes with a standard 1.1 engine, I don't think they are too strong