Techzle reader Alvin Dirksen came across this red Citroën GSA Break in Maastricht, did not hesitate and took pictures. This allows us to take a short time travel back to 1984. Alvin: thank you!
Members of the GS, or GSA family, have been reviewed several times in this nostalgic column over the past few years. Take this white GS Break from 1978 or this also red GSA from 1983. With these fresh plates from Maastricht on the mat, it is a good time to dust off the Citroëns again. For 1970 draftsman Opron was given a new assignment: design a new model that can operate between the 2CV and the much more luxurious DS. The result is the GS. Not much later the Break followed. The GS eventually drove around for ten years, until Citroën brought the car back up to date with a thorough polish. To make it extra clear that the Frenchman was renewed, ‘GSA’ was used as the type designation since 1979.
Compared to the previously mentioned GS Break, this red one does not have chrome but plastic bumpers. The shiny door handles and window frames of yesteryear will also be overhauled and make way for black ones. The 920 kg heavy GSA Break of the photos is executed as a ‘Special’: the bareest version that Citroën had in the range.
The current owner has now been driving the Citroën for 391 days. Four others have preceded him since the beginning of 1984. According to Alvin, GSA is apparently well taken care of because he thought it looked strikingly beautiful.
In total 1,896,742 GS’s and 576,757 GSAs were produced. Citroën pulled the plug from the GSA in 1986. Not entirely without merit, because the popular BX took over the baton, although that car had been available for several years then.