keithmac
Guru
I'm building a spare gearbox for it this afternoon in the shed (diff bolt kit etc), fitted a supercharger kit to it (16vG60) it was one of 7 in the UK a while back.
I will never drive a Vauxhall
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I'm building a spare gearbox for it this afternoon in the shed (diff bolt kit etc), fitted a supercharger kit to it (16vG60) it was one of 7 in the UK a while back.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
My first car was a Chevette
I'd like to have a Chevette HSR even now!!!
Or, with a bottomless wallet, for fuel, a Monaro, or VXR-8, which could be even more of a 'sleeper' as the Wagon (estate) derivative
(we had a Jaguar XKR, so I'm reasonably used to a powerful supercharged car)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UN6FxoQEPM
I'd like to have a Chevette HSR even now!!!
Or, with a bottomless wallet, for fuel, a Monaro, or VXR-8, which could be even more of a 'sleeper' as the Wagon (estate) derivative
(we had a Jaguar XKR, so I'm reasonably used to a powerful supercharged car)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UN6FxoQEPM
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
Used to have a Firenza in metalic yellow gold
Personal opinion of course, but I thought a good looking car, as did Mrs B when we met. My main recollection of the car itself was a faulty fuel gauge and rot around the base of the windscreen pillars.
Eventually tin worm and engine wear made the car no longer viable and was replaced by a red Golf Mk 1.
Personal opinion of course, but I thought a good looking car, as did Mrs B when we met. My main recollection of the car itself was a faulty fuel gauge and rot around the base of the windscreen pillars.
Eventually tin worm and engine wear made the car no longer viable and was replaced by a red Golf Mk 1.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
There's something about shoot old cars that we all like. We remember them and associate them with our youth or our younger days. For example my brother bought a 1969 Vauxhall Viva from the old bloke who played the piano Les Dawson style down what was then our local pub. It was a mint green one and was so underpowered (1200 CC i think) that going uphill was so embarrassing as queues of cars formed behind it. I bought it off my brother (about 1983) and suffered with it for a year or two. It also had those seat belts that weren't inertia ones,meaning if you wanted to pick something up off the floor or reach for something on the dashboard you had to unfasted the belt. Yes i remember that car looking through rose tinted glasses,but in reality it was a right old bag of shoot!
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Levo-Lon
Guru
Levo-Lon
Guru
It was par for the course,a rattle tin and some filler gap and filler!!
I started my working life in a body shop,all cars were bad iirc
LeMans green Escort Mexico was a trouser tightening car i got to work on in my first week as a spotty oik
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
There's something about shoot old cars that we all like. We remember them and associate them with our youth or our younger days. For example my brother bought a 1969 Vauxhall Viva from the old bloke who played the piano Les Dawson style down what was then our local pub. It was a mint green one and was so underpowered (1200 CC i think) that going uphill was so embarrassing as queues of cars formed behind it. I bought it off my brother (about 1983) and suffered with it for a year or two. It also had those seat belts that weren't inertia ones,meaning if you wanted to pick something up off the floor or reach for something on the dashboard you had to unfasted the belt. Yes i remember that car looking through rose tinted glasses,but in reality it was a right old bag of shoot!
Best read in an Alan Bennett voice
kevin_cambs_uk
Guru
- Location
- Near Cambridge
Let’s not panic!
Soltydog
Legendary Member
- Location
- near Hornsea
I’ve always avoided Vauxhall’s as I find them to be generally bland and ugly.
However, I did hire a newish Astra to get me and the bike home from Inverness after LEJOG.
I was totally amazed at how nice it was to drive.
Graham
I've never really been a Vauxhall fan either, but last time I changed cars I looked at the Insignia estate & actually quite like it. I normally get bored of cars quite quickly & change them far too often, but I've still got the Insignia after 2.5 years & not looking to change at the moment. Great sized car, back seats down & complete bike goes straight in, even my 60cm frame bikes
Andrew_P
In between here and there
Opel Mantas, Vauxhall Astra GTE Mk 1 & 2, Cavalier GSI 4x4 Ending up with a Motorsports Devopments V6 Vectra GSi the latter was my one and only brand new car.
I had a ride in a Opel Lotus Omega in 91 on a Autobahn that was one scary ride bad passenger at best of times!
I had a ride in a Opel Lotus Omega in 91 on a Autobahn that was one scary ride bad passenger at best of times!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Why are you all talking about CARS, this a thread about a pedal-powered vehicle! 
I think they all just read the title.Why are you all talking about CARS, this a thread about a pedal-powered vehicle!
Levo-Lon
Guru
Hard to spend more than a penny on a corsa even if it was di2 12 speed dura ace
