The Most Incredible Citroen Graveyard Ever Discovered! Rare Cars Inc The DS BX CX AX 2CV & SM!

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  • This is by far the most incredible Citroen graveyard i have ever discovered in the UK! I have never found so many rare citroens in one place! Incredibly rare cars such as the legendary Citroen BS, DS, BX, CX 2CV, AX and i even found x2 Citroen SM!! The SM was one if the most luxurious cars ever produced by the company, wile Citroen were designing the SM they approached Maserati to use one of there engines in the SM… Maserati rejected there proposal so Citroen brought Maserati…. The car ended up with a V6 power plant from the legendary company which made the SM a Very Special Car indeed! This location have never been explored in such depth and the reason i found so many rare cars, inc the AX GTI.. again another Incrediblely rare car! Hope you enjoy this weeks video guys 🙂
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  • @sullivanrachael
    @sullivanrachael 8 місяців тому +6

    It is heartbreaking to see this Citroen heaven go to hell

  • @Andronk
    @Andronk 8 місяців тому +4

    21:22 That's not an AX, that's a Visa GTI! Possibly the rarest of the lot. If howmanyleft is to be believed, there are 18 SORN and only 1 currently licensed in the UK.

  • @martinevans1256
    @martinevans1256 8 місяців тому +6

    Visa gti 😮

  • @patrickezra7159
    @patrickezra7159 8 місяців тому +3

    Il te manque le drone pour la vue globale du site ! Car là vues trop rapprochées ! "Le van" en France s’appelle le Type H Citroën dit le TUB , ça vaut chère chez nous car transformé en food truck !😊😊😊

  • @SM-mk2wh
    @SM-mk2wh 8 місяців тому +5

    Great vid, the GS is a flat four boxer engine 👍🏼 the rotary is super rare, white one is a Visa GTi. Great find 😎👍🏼

  • @fredericlegall690
    @fredericlegall690 8 місяців тому +4

    A 21:30 Visa GTI devenue très rare . Il a existé en version sport: Visa Chrono , Visa chalenger , Visa Trophée , Visa GT , Visa Mille Pistes (4x4) j'adore vos vidéos .

    • @KnutKeilbach-k9t
      @KnutKeilbach-k9t 6 місяців тому +1

      Da blutet mein Herz. My heart is bleeding. Until now I had no imagine about how many cars by Citroen were built for the Britsh market. Left handdrive. It' s a big shame that there' s nobody to save this konvolut. It is worth every penny.
      Knut vom Andre Citroen Club

  • @Zocky73166
    @Zocky73166 8 місяців тому +2

    20:57, 22:59 - first series DS/ID...really something that I would like to posess

  • @bluebritten
    @bluebritten 8 місяців тому +3

    Hi Colin, amazing cars, thanks for sharing, greetings from New Zealand.

  • @EnglishTurbines
    @EnglishTurbines 8 місяців тому +1

    That "Rotary" Citroen isnt a rotary....its a normal flat four piston engine.....Please be factual...😳🙄🇬🇧

  • @Road2Rust
    @Road2Rust 8 місяців тому +2

    I don’t know if there’s anything else that will top this one for me. And yes, sorry about the misinformation - I said it was a rotary when it wasn’t. You never stop learning!

  • @richkent7938
    @richkent7938 8 місяців тому +2

    Always look forward to your Weekly Uploads, Colin, and another brilliant one, Today. What a find. Some Iconic Models on show: such a shame that they've been left to rot.

  • @nakedcampers512
    @nakedcampers512 8 місяців тому +4

    Visa GTI the most fun car I have ever owned would love another amazing collection thanks for showing

  • @richardhayward4643
    @richardhayward4643 8 місяців тому +1

    you explorers must ruin more trainers on your quest to bring us this footage. always the wrong foot wear. put some boots or wellies on

  • @hoggmotorsport
    @hoggmotorsport 8 місяців тому +6

    Shame to burst ya bubble guys but that's not a rotary motor in the GSA, they were a flat four motor, similar in design to an Impreza motor, you can see the cambelts on the GS... Obviously rotary motors don't have cambelts..or cams 👍

    • @Road2Rust
      @Road2Rust 8 місяців тому +3

      @@jerryexplores7587as long as you don’t make a habit of handing it out eh.

    • @hoggmotorsport
      @hoggmotorsport 8 місяців тому +1

      @@jerryexplores7587 I watched your vid mate, cool find!! And it's your location.. Up to you who ya share it with 👍

    • @TheBeardedExplorer
      @TheBeardedExplorer  8 місяців тому +3

      @@jerryexplores7587I said I havant seen anyone els go that far before? Everyone already knows other people have already been?

    • @Road2Rust
      @Road2Rust 8 місяців тому +2

      @@hoggmotorsport no it isn’t, it’s the owners location, and although we document them we owe it to the people who own them to show care and consideration to the cars, and to use discretion about who knows where something is. Loose lips sinks ships.

    • @hoggmotorsport
      @hoggmotorsport 8 місяців тому

      @@Road2Rust you were happy enough to accept the location, ya don't need to lecture me about the secrecy of locations! I've found and know of plenty that'll not be passed on 👍
      Edit... We've all witnessed the events of this week where idiots have blatantly given locations away... We all know how it ends!

  • @thughes52
    @thughes52 8 місяців тому +2

    Some cool finds and rare Citroen cars Colin there blimey I should think quite a lot of money too 👍

  • @kaolla1000
    @kaolla1000 8 місяців тому +1

    there is a better citroen graveyard inside a old church, sadly no access allowed

  • @joshhall7753
    @joshhall7753 8 місяців тому +2

    Like i have commented before im so glad we have a person like you on UA-cam that has the time and the respect to share these beautiful cars with everybody around the world even if they are taken back by nature or they will be able to hopefully be saved

  • @spikeyplants438
    @spikeyplants438 8 місяців тому +2

    Hi Colin and James I think both of you need survival medals for that video,it was almost jungle warfare!!!! Great selection of classic cars,really is a crying shame seeing them rotting away.I owed 2 Citreon amis back when I was first driving and the ride in them was excellent a little squishy if too fast in corners lol! And my Dad owed a Bx and the ride in that was superb as you said. Any way another great video from you two explorers,great commentary as usual Colin.Really looking forward to next weeks after that one. Take care both of you.😃

  • @dnf1903
    @dnf1903 8 місяців тому +4

    Brilliant video Colin. Used to be a taxi driver-one firm I worked at had a newish BX estate and all the drivers wanted to drive it. It was so smooth to drive. Keep well.

  • @simes205
    @simes205 8 місяців тому +1

    The CX mirrors are also used on the McLaren F1 as well as quite a few other cars including Lotus Esprit and Excel, TVR Griff and Chimera.

  • @mgloger
    @mgloger 8 місяців тому

    Incredible place!! But the GS is no birotor. It is just a usual GS equipped with twin webers. Just a normal 4 cylinder boxer motor.

  • @basingstoke63
    @basingstoke63 8 місяців тому

    Nice one ,Guys , but such a shame . A fiend of mine in the RAF had an SM . He used to call it his ,Thunderbirds car .(This was back in 1982 ) . It would have made the video complete if ,Tarzan had coming crashing through the undergrowth . lol . Stay safe ,Guys .

  • @jeremywentworth1833
    @jeremywentworth1833 8 місяців тому

    I know someone who had both a BX GTi and Bx Gti 16 v 4 x 4. I briefly had a Zantia less than a week easiest £450 ive ever made, only problem it leaked oil. Citroen haven't improved as my 2013 DS3 Dsport Thp also constantly has a slight oil leak.

  • @djphilmanns
    @djphilmanns 8 місяців тому

    I own a GS Birotor myself, and that isn’t one. Nonetheless, great video, what a find!

  • @grahamx8623
    @grahamx8623 8 місяців тому

    I've been driving past this place for years, there were always interesting old Citroens parked outside the front, Tractions Avant's, Gs's and CX's etc but I had no idea this lot was locked away there. It'd be a great source of rare spares, Citroen nerds must know about it?

  • @shawnheppenstall3258
    @shawnheppenstall3258 8 місяців тому +3

    My wife said your killing her with the car finds lol she likes the abandoned house video better 🤣

  • @uhn100
    @uhn100 8 місяців тому

    Citroen owned Maserati for a few years and used their engines in quite a lot of models shame there all scrap cars
    when I lived in the UK their was a man in Ripley who had a few hundred Citroens I owned all the Citroens but never a DS could not find a good one I could afford I think you should take better footwear with you and a pair of cutter's good video thanks. I forgot to mention rust was always a problem the Maserati engines they used were really unreliable I was buying CX and SMs for under a thousand pounds back in the early 80s

  • @luisbatista5
    @luisbatista5 8 місяців тому +1

    Hi Colin, list of the cars I recognize:
    8:03 Citroen XM Break on blue paint; 8:21 most likely a Mercedes 190 (W201); 12:57 most likely a Mercedes W124; 10:10 Citroen C15 Romahome Hylo (motorhome based on Citroen C15 chassis); 13:27 that Citroen CX mirror also used on Lotus Esprit X180 (1988-1994); 19:32 Citroen GS Birotor engine made by Citroen and since it was a complete disaster in many ways in France they, Citroen, tried to buy thyem back from the customers to destroy them, but luckly some owners refused to sell the car and still keep it to this day; 25:32 Citroen 2 CV Fourgonnette; 23:12 it looks like to me a 1936 Citroën Rosalie 7UA MI.

  • @jsmythe6307
    @jsmythe6307 8 місяців тому

    Amazing neighbour had a BX GTI when I was growing up. Cool cars.

  • @davidh328
    @davidh328 8 місяців тому +1

    Hi Colin, any update on your Mercedes motorhome?

  • @derrickcuff9817
    @derrickcuff9817 8 місяців тому +2

    Excellent video 📸

  • @thomastomato2702
    @thomastomato2702 8 місяців тому

    Cela me fait plaisir de voir nos amis Anglais aimer les vieilles Citroën. Aujourd'hui, les marques automobiles perdent leur identité, car elles intègrent des groupes multimarques avec les mêmes moteurs, les mêmes plateformes. C'est juste un badge Opel ou Peugeot (Stellantis), mais techniquement, ce sont les mêmes autos !

  • @daviddrake1875
    @daviddrake1875 8 місяців тому

    This shows how nature will take every thing back no matter how much we humans value anything. Cool cars though.

  • @martinsmith1870
    @martinsmith1870 8 місяців тому

    Well I never.. I didn’t know they were actually abandoned!!

  • @terryroberts4589
    @terryroberts4589 8 місяців тому

    About 1977 I was 14 and my dad had a Citroen CX the one that had a curved back window that was a cool 😎 car

  • @moneywaiter4857
    @moneywaiter4857 8 місяців тому

    Hi, will you be doing Redditch Police Station before it gets demolished ??? loads of ways in at the minute ?

  • @josephboesten963
    @josephboesten963 8 місяців тому

    let them rest in peace most of the cars are not worth restauring i restaured a DS21 ie for more than 60 k euro 15 years ago it would cost now more than 100k the SM probably double that amount but some one could do that because of the masratie motor

  • @terrys1595
    @terrys1595 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm sure someone has already done this place, if not there's two places with loads of Citroen in.
    Plus most people with half a clue about cars and engines can tell that's not a rotary engine

    • @jerryexplores7587
      @jerryexplores7587 8 місяців тому +3

      Yes mate I did this place last year and I gave the location to Colin and Stokze.

    • @terrys1595
      @terrys1595 8 місяців тому +2

      @@jerryexplores7587 I think it was Stokze's one that I've seen 👍

  • @johnathanrowley2707
    @johnathanrowley2707 8 місяців тому

    Would love to buy a strimmer and cut down all the brambles to free these cars

  • @fransschilderman166
    @fransschilderman166 8 місяців тому

    ongelooflijk daar moet toch iets mee gedaan worden.

  • @paulwootton5378
    @paulwootton5378 8 місяців тому

    Since you started at the road...why did you not just start on the other side of the river?

  • @ianstahl4220
    @ianstahl4220 8 місяців тому

    Sorry a rotary dont have cambelt or camshafts..

  • @cpyart
    @cpyart 8 місяців тому +1

    One of your best, just WOW !!!

  • @alasdairvincent6248
    @alasdairvincent6248 8 місяців тому +1

    I’d call that a classic Citroen lovers paradise.

  • @skinnylew
    @skinnylew 8 місяців тому +1

    Visa Gti is a rare, rare thing indeed, rarer than an SM.

    • @ghiajunkie
      @ghiajunkie 8 місяців тому

      ...and a lot of fun to drive.

    • @fredericlegall690
      @fredericlegall690 6 місяців тому

      Elle possède le train avant de la 205 GTI , mais pas le train arrière .@@ghiajunkie

    • @ghiajunkie
      @ghiajunkie 6 місяців тому

      @@fredericlegall690 yes,that's right. I am a lucky owner of a Visa GTI.

  • @colinashby3775
    @colinashby3775 8 місяців тому

    The windows are all that can be saved

  • @kristianholm403
    @kristianholm403 8 місяців тому

    What about your other channel?

  • @nigelbryant5932
    @nigelbryant5932 8 місяців тому

    Why don’t you ever wear sensible footwear? Love the content….

    • @Road2Rust
      @Road2Rust 8 місяців тому

      Where’s the fun in that?

  • @PeterCox-k1w
    @PeterCox-k1w 8 місяців тому

    That's no rotary engine

  • @ellysjewelleryhouse
    @ellysjewelleryhouse 8 місяців тому

    Brilliant upload. Always such great uploads. Thanks for sharing 😊

  • @RetroRatz
    @RetroRatz 8 місяців тому

    Such a shame to sit and rot, but great video! Totally sad to see a pre-war tangled in vine. 🚗♥️

  • @clairefunnell8481
    @clairefunnell8481 8 місяців тому

    Give it up boys. Too funny. Such a shame and a very big waste of so many nice cars. Welly boots on explores Colin. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @FRFRANKIE
    @FRFRANKIE 8 місяців тому

    Hi Colin & James.
    Hope your doing good.
    That was such a cool video.
    So sad seeing all those Citroen's just rotting away like that. I loved the video.
    Stay safe and take care.

  • @powerglory4022
    @powerglory4022 8 місяців тому

    My father owns an SM, owned since 1997. We’d love a spare set of headlight glass. My brother has a a 73 DS. Tragic to see such classics being reclaimed by nature. Thanks for the video.

  • @cruizzer77
    @cruizzer77 8 місяців тому

    I grew up with Citroens, my parents had a GSA, BX, Xantia and now C5, always Breaks (= estates). I learnt to drive on the BX, it was so nice to drive because it had an incredible suspension system and was quite light for the size but quite powerful with the 2 litre injection engine. I wish I still had it as well as the GSA, they have become so rare now. Still I never had a Citroen of my own, once almost had an AX GTi and another time almost had a Mehari, but I was young then and didn't have the money and space.

  • @lindseykaine-walley6339
    @lindseykaine-walley6339 8 місяців тому

    It really makes you wonder how many old abandoned vehicles are around the world! I think you must have found many of them too. Have you save anymore lately yourself Colin? A great explore you have given us. 👍

  • @valerycarpentier852
    @valerycarpentier852 8 місяців тому

    It breaks my heart to see the SMs and the DSs abandoned (and also the CXs). Beautiful cars, still should be on the road.

  • @AnnasBurningCuriosity
    @AnnasBurningCuriosity 8 місяців тому

    This was an awesome explore , very happy to have Joined you on this one

  • @nicktasker4287
    @nicktasker4287 8 місяців тому

    Ok the BX were great cars but the suspension n braking pipes were a grand to replace after 8 years, so it’s a mot fail for relatively good cars

  • @p24hrsmith
    @p24hrsmith 8 місяців тому

    A good restored SM is worth around £40k so the 2 there despite the state they're in are still financially viable to restore

  • @john0597
    @john0597 8 місяців тому

    Great video guys I watch this on Saturday the 20th of January 24

  • @TheWoodDoodler
    @TheWoodDoodler 8 місяців тому

    Superb 🌟👌🏼

  • @FRFRANKIE
    @FRFRANKIE 8 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @J-D..
    @J-D.. 8 місяців тому

    Hi Colin absolutely brilliant love the old Citroen such a great video thank you

  • @psychogobetween
    @psychogobetween 8 місяців тому

  • @TheMG4hubcap
    @TheMG4hubcap 8 місяців тому +1

    Knew James would come

    • @Road2Rust
      @Road2Rust 8 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂 I didn’t shut up about it for weeks

    • @TheMG4hubcap
      @TheMG4hubcap 8 місяців тому

      @@Road2Rust 😂

  • @Roachie1982uk
    @Roachie1982uk 8 місяців тому

    That silver van is a rare ripple bonnet 2cv van 😎

  • @Lottatherotta
    @Lottatherotta 8 місяців тому

    So how did u get across the river?

  • @manubzr1294
    @manubzr1294 8 місяців тому

    À 1:28 , c'est quoi les roues ?

  • @_david_024
    @_david_024 8 місяців тому

    23:10 traction avant?

  • @amandabeech8472
    @amandabeech8472 8 місяців тому

    Another car graveyard. Lovely video Colin.

  • @mini4x
    @mini4x 8 місяців тому

    Th Birotor was a Citroen built engine based on an NSU (Ro 80) design. Fun little internet rabbit hole, never knew the French had Wankel engines too.