For those who’re a automobile fanatic who frequents YouTube, then in the present day’s Good Value or No Cube DS may already be acquainted to you because it was as soon as owned by our good friend Tyler Hoover and is being offered by its current proprietor, Dave the Automobile Wizard. Let’s see what wizardly marvel its value may maintain.
No magic wand was wanted to understand final Friday’s 2013 Porsche Cayenne GTS. Properly offered and seemingly in turnkey situation, that performance-oriented crossover earned a formidable 78 p.c Good Value win at its $16,900 asking value regardless of being a decade-old Deutschlander.
For those who’re something like me (and why wouldn’t you be?), then you definitely probably comply with the vlogging exploits of our good good friend, Tyler Hoover, the purveyor of Hoovie’s Storage, which he hyperbolically describes because the “dumbest automotive channel in all of YouTube.” I watch a variety of automobile YouTube, so I query that.
This isn’t a pissing contest, nevertheless, and to be trustworthy, Hoovie does often make some enjoyably questionable car-buying selections. He typically finds out how questionable they’re after having an inspection by his mechanic good friend and restore guru, David Lengthy, aka the proprietor of Newton, Kansas’s Omega Auto Clinic, aka the Automobile Wizard.
Hoovie picked up this 1969 Citroën DS19 as a wild hair buy. After seeing all of the work its sophisticated hydraulics required and questioning the acquisition as a complete, he traded it to the Automobile Wizard for retailer credit score towards the quite a few different of his automobiles cluttering up Dave’s store.
The Automobile Wizard has repaired many of the Citroën’s points and made a number of movies on the automobile alongside the approach. The humorous factor concerning the Automobile Wizard’s movies is that, in contrast to devoted automotive YouTubers corresponding to Legit Road Vehicles’ Alex Palmeri, David has a enterprise to run separate from his video work and, therefore, hardly ever ever reveals stuff really getting finished. Regardless, it’s enjoyable to look at him drive round his store within the DS19 on three wheels since that’s one thing they will do.
In response to one of many Automobile Wizard’s first movies on the automobile, the Citroën’s paint is a six out of ten. There’s some popping within the floor, particularly throughout the white coat on the roof. As I recall, the roof is manufactured from fiberglass, which could clarify why it’s reacting in another way from the metal panels. It’s all very livable, and the underlying bodywork is straight, rust-free, and simply as futuristic-looking because the day it was made.
A damaged armrest and a few lacking trim mar the cabin, however that’s unlikely to decrease the expertise of marveling at Citroën’s trademark one-spoke steering wheel and splendidly bizarre switchgear and gauges. General, it seems to be completely appropriate to be used as a funds traditional.
After all, to be fulfilling, it must run and cease and do all of the anticipated issues a automobile ought to do, and this Citroën appears succesful on all these accounts.
Powering the automobile is a 1911cc OHV inline-four, that makes 75 horsepower and sits behind the four-speed guide gearbox. The spare tire lounges above the radiator air consumption in entrance of that.
In response to the advert—and the Automobile Wizard’s movies—the leaky hydropneumatic spheres have been changed, and the automobile now raises and lowers, goes and stops because it ought to.
The one subject famous is a few carburetor tuning, which appears unusual coming from a restore store identified for not shying away from older automobiles. There are 26,722 on the clock, and the automobile maintains a clear title and a YouTube legacy. The Automobile Wizard is asking $26,000 for the sale.
What’s your tackle this DS19 and that $26,000 asking? Is {that a} honest value for a reasonably well-sorted traditional Citroën that’s been across the YouTube block? Or has the Automobile Wizard didn’t work his magic this time round?
You resolve!
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