General Uno Mk2 Project

[Gav F]

lol
1. Too far up north
2. Its green
3. Its too good condition i want something to work on bodywork as well as engine and i dont want interior just carpet and two bucket seats lol
4. Too Expensive
5. Reserve Not Met
i need more space, i have 2 MT5s now lol and getting my chevette soon!

 

[Chas Uno]

lol
1. Too far up north
2. Its green
3. Its too good condition i want something to work on bodywork as well as engine and i dont want interior just carpet and two bucket seats lol
4. Too Expensive
5. Reserve Not Met
i need more space, i have 2 MT5s now lol and getting my chevette soon!

Can't please some people

Found this site that might be of use to you:

http://www.m-99.co.uk/Car_Bodykits/Vauxhall_Chevette/vauxhall_chevette.html

If you like the Chevette then you should like the Firenza Droop Snoot as well. Personally I prefer the Firenza as it's a real old school coupe. Same engine as the Chevette HS by the way! I love what this guy had to say about his:

"I used to own this car (79/83). My wife was terrified of it, forcing me to sell the car."

He should've ditched the wife and kept the car

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/visitors_firenza.htm

 

[Gav F]

yeh i dont like Droop snoots, my fav. is chevette my dad had one at 17 lol i have an issue of Car and Car Conversions from about 11 years ago with Chevettes and Droop Snoots somewhere
and i have that website bookmarked

 

[Chas Uno]

yeh i dont like Droop snoots, my fav. is chevette my dad had one at 17 lol i have an issue of Car and Car Conversions from about 11 years ago with Chevettes and Droop Snoots somewhere
and i have that website bookmarked

You don't like Droop Snoots? Sacriledge! :shakehead

Go and look up Baby Bertha as driven by the late Gerry Marshall and then tell me you don't like them. While you're at it look up Big Bertha also driven by Gerry and that's the car I would love to have. Big Bertha was about as subtle as a fist in the face!

RWD Vauxhalls are so cool

Edit: My first car was a RWD Vauxhall! A Cavalier Mk1 1.3L

 

[Gav F]

lol ok ok the big bertha looks meannn but the DTV Chevette *drools* :yum:

 

[Gav F]

the second pic i found on the net but its a pic from my issue of CCC

 

[Chas Uno]

Big Bertha - awesome monster of a car :worship:

Plus you get loads of girls all over you when you drive Big Bertha!

 

[Gav F]

i wonder how old they are now?
on zimmer frames haha

 

[faster4_tec]

ah cars and car conversions, possibly THE best car mag ever printed. it died in 2003/4 just a few months after I'd discovered it. I'm still mourning


and chevettes, possibly the last great age of vauxhalls, those and manta's A's and B's (when was the last time you saw a manta B, and have you EVER seen a manta A on the road in the UK? (nearly bought two!, but were both the undesirable hatchbacks, WANTED A saloon/classic).

last chevette I saw got wrapped round a tree on a rally in 2006 (malcom wilson) was first SS on the first of two days of rallying :bang: so far as I know, it hasn't been repaired/back onto the UK circuit, so I assume the worst

 

[Gav F]

i know a bloke with two who i work with both road legal, and i see a manta b around locally but hes had it for years my dad said as he once had one, i think im going to scan his pics
of his chevette, viva and modified manta!

I have aload of CCC mags! my uncle gave me them along with Revs, Redline, Max power and fastcar from the 90s

 

[faster4_tec]

my parents first car they bought together was an imported (german) LHD opel kadett GT (? right abreviation? twas the top one) coupe, a 2dr saloon job look'd a bit like the saloon kadett/manta b type.
was black with quad headlights, gorgous. but then it was written off, by a tractor
they bought a brand new (mk3? the last good astra ran from 86-93) astra GTE 16v in two tone, black/anthracite with the ins payout. and a few years later that got nicked, so we went back to saabs

 

[Gav F]

mmmm GTEs, i have GTE recaros in my uno

 

[Chas Uno]

i wonder how old they are now?
on zimmer frames haha

They're probably MILFS now :yum:

 

[faster4_tec]

I read an article in CCC about the last remaining (known of, there was 4 inc prototypes, only1 full build for rallying) astra 4s (mk3) looked an absolute monster! wiht some fancy 4x4 hyrdroelectric system, and a heavily modifed manta 2000 engine (2.2varient I think), etc etc. I'll scan the article when I find it.
anyways I fantasicsed about that for months and months, until eventually I found a minty WHITE opel (ireland) ascona 500, bought it went to collect (from norther ireland) with a borrowed van and rented trailer, and found the 500 had been nicked (or so he said), so there was me over £250 out of pocket (fuel, trailer hire, van/beer money to pay a mate, ferry crossing for HGV sized vehicle).
hence why I now never buy a car that far away that can't drive itself. too much cost if it goes wrong and I end up empty handed

into fiats now for the last few years! just bought an unoT, partly because I wanted one, but partly because it costs about three times as much for an equivlent aged daihatsu charade turbo (gtti) with equal acre'ages of rust :devil:

 

[Gav F]

ooo thats ok then :devil:
next time im round my dad's i will take pics of his pics of his cars from the past

 

[willieboy]

done anymore gav?
personally i think the badboy bonnet suits it
to the sunstrip though
how fars your boot come along, worrrrk on your car boy!!

 

[Gav F]

haha cheers willie
maybe i wont get sunstrip, i might get a bad boy bonnet if you do lol
and im still waiting for RM to deliver my bike parts so i can stop spending money and time and get cracking on the uno :yum:

 

[willieboy]

lol well let me find out how much it costs then ill have to see

 

[Gav F]

i finally got around to painting my passenger door on sunday and the grille but the grille isnt great needs abit more fine sanding and some moree paint lol

 

[Gav F]

right, i got a few hundred £££ to spend on my uno, im feeling some new tyres, a clifford alarm system and my turbo dials and arches!