My Other Vauxhall Project.

Waiting on a red top transplant. Soon to be very quick indeed....

Very nice

It'll be quicker than the HSR with the red top in it. U gonna run the turbo on it aswell then.

My first car was one of these with a 2.0l ford pinto in it with 40s & cav back end, it was painted in vauxhall rally colours..
It was built with the help of my dad who was a rally driver at the time..
Ohhh them wer the good old days when young lads got there hands dirty with there cars & just not polish them!!!!

My first car was a bright red one of those with a black vinyl top, loved that ole thing, I can even remember the reg the only car Ive ever remembered :lol:

RAS228S

not for 25 years ago.

Had one too, only managed to get a ford xflow 1600 in mine though. There were problems with the exhaust on the ohc pinto engines and as I had the exhaust off a mk2 escort we used parts off that. My reg was ynt989t, blue in colour and when I think back it makes me cringe. We thought we were the dogs in our cars at the time. Spent many a night driving around lichfield. The chavs of the eighties/early ninetys!

Nice looking lotus sunbeam in the background, my mate had the tii. I thought they had a reputation of rotting faster than they could be fixed!

180 bhp thats about what my hsr had back in the 80;s. hope your used to rear wheel drive

My Bro-in-law used to race the shuvit so if you need any pointers or ghelp, give me a shout and i'kll give you his email addy

part of my job was to run the hs twin cam and the single cam untill they blowup at Millbrook , flat out reading a newspaper for hours

I absolutely love the Chevette, I had Five of them in my first 2 years of driving.

This was my first, a 1256 with the wheels on back to front as I could not afford wide wheels then.

And this was what I finaly built, took ages, it had 1.8 manta engine and box with standard rear axle. Black magic body kit and HSR bonnet. I SO miss this car, if I found it again I would buy it back straight away.

Very glad to see a Chevette, so rare now. Best of luck with the project and keep us all posted on how it goes.

Regards Luke.

Cheers Luke, I will keep you's posted. I love the wheels on back to front :well done:

Your second one looks great. A great job done. We are rear wheel drive nuts, my brother has the Lotus Sunbeam, Avenger Tiger, 5 Other avengers, a Ford Anglia (Ron Harris's) and 2 manta a's oh a manta b too. Its just driving at its best! Chevettes are getting thin on the ground your right. BUt good ones can still be got.

Yeah, he has been collecting since he was 17 or so, petrol head extream. Nice to see money being spent on good cars saved from rot n rust rather than being pee'd down the preverbial wall. Only wish I had of clicked a bit younger myself. The value of these things go up by the day, its hard to believe that a car my mother once owned, the fiat 500 (3 buried in our back garden) are nearly as expensive as the new ones.