My Other Vauxhall Project.

[irishopel]

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

[dandan]

Very nice

[Frontycustoms]

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

[greenjeep]

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!!!!

[andysd1]

[Drift]

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 RAS228S not for 25 years ago.

[james'll fix it]

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!

[irishopel]

[dazza]

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

[bobbinsjob]

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

[dbb123]

[irishopel]

[Adam]

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

[Luke]

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.

[irishopel]

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

[Luke]

[irishopel]

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.