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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omega3000 on 19 May 2013, 12:12:22
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Cant be many of these around with this mileage :o Chevette (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-VAUXHALL-CHEVETTE-L-RED-/251276263612?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a813b80bc)
Always liked these little cars , maybe needs updating with a nice straight 6 dropping in it ::)
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Seriously retro cool! 8)
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Rare sight these days especially in saloon form :y
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Ah! An infamous Vauxhall Shuvitt! ;)
Looks good. :y
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Didn't Vauxhall produce one with a 2.3 litre lump in it?
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Didn't Vauxhall produce one with a 2.3 litre lump in it?
They most certainly did and an animal it was too :y
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Didn't Vauxhall produce one with a 2.3 litre lump in it?
They most certainly did and an animal it was too :y
I believe that old Albs once owned one in his youth. ::) ::) ;)
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Cant be many of these around with this mileage :o Chevette (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-VAUXHALL-CHEVETTE-L-RED-/251276263612?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a813b80bc)
Always liked these little cars , maybe needs updating with a nice straight 6 dropping in it ::)
An I6 in a Chevette? Are you mad? Just getting it in the car would mean cutting a damn great hole, and then it would handle appallingly.
now a 20XE would make for a fun car and isn't too hard to do.
Although thinking back a few years, Hot rod magazine threw a drag car together using a US spec Chevette and a 500ci Cadillac engine that was pretty scary!
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Didn't Vauxhall produce one with a 2.3 litre lump in it?
They most certainly did and an animal it was too :y
I believe that old Albs once owned one in his youth. ::) ::) ;)
Correct.Its the one in my avatar. :y
Wouldnt drop an S6 in a chevette.Get an old slant 4 engine from somewhere and rebuild/tune it for not much money and you would have a very quick little car. ;)
The one in the link is a saloon though.The hatchback shell is the one to have. ;)
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My pride & joy when I was 19. :)
(http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff500/Albs59/ChevetteHS2.jpg) (http://s1238.photobucket.com/user/Albs59/media/ChevetteHS2.jpg.html)
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My 1st car was a hatchback chevette in blue. I was 18 and thought it was the coolest car in the world ;D
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so was mine it was a special??.....what a heap it was lol
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The old Viva engine fitted to the standard Chevettes was severely asthmatic.It was gutless even by 1970,s standards. :y
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so was mine it was a special??.....what a heap it was lol
::) ;D My ex girlfriend had one years ago and when i drove it couldnt seem to get the hang of the gears ::)
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I seem to recall that the Magnum had a 2.3 litre lump, too. :y
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I seem to recall that the Magnum had a 2.3 litre lump, too. :y
Certainly did Mr Opti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWjcNTKr2Q
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Standard ShoveIt was a heap of cack. Gutless, couldn't stop, didn't like corners, and invariably disintegrated like all Vauxhalls from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Wasn't particularly comfortable, or reliable.
You'd have to be a real enthusiast to tolerate one today.
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I seem to recall that the Magnum had a 2.3 litre lump, too. :y
Certainly did Mr Opti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWjcNTKr2Q
Mgnum/Viva body........One and the same?
Or was the Magnum larger?
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My daughters first car, chose it herself, also did most of her own maintenance. Not bad for an 18yr old.
Didn,t have to worry too much, it was totally gutless ;D
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I seem to recall that the Magnum had a 2.3 litre lump, too. :y
Certainly did Mr Opti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUWjcNTKr2Q
Mgnum/Viva body........One and the same?
Or was the Magnum larger?
Viva and Magnum same body but Magnum jazzed up with bigger engines(1.8&2.3) and better interior with multi dial dash and vinyl roof and rostyle type wheels and quad headlamps,smart in its day :y :y
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=685&q=vauxhall+magnum&oq=vauxhall+magnum&gs_l=img.12..0l6j0i24l4.1840.10890.0.12874.15.10.0.5.5.0.83.729.10.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.14.img.1LUeX2LNUZo#imgrc=e7YbB1rDMBwLbM%3A%3BR5Hbj5E9NfM50M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassic-carshow.com%252Fimg%252F450%252FBMC-BL_Rally_Peterborough_2008-20.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassic-carshow.com%252Fcars%252FVauxhall%252FMagnum%252F2300-691%3B450%3B388
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I had an estate. The body had so little rigidity that I could hear the body flex as I turned in to my parking space and one wheel went up the ramp first. Park with one wheel on a kerb and the tailgate wouldn't close. ::)
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Standard ShoveIt was a heap of cack. Gutless, couldn't stop, didn't like corners, and invariably disintegrated like all Vauxhalls from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Wasn't particularly comfortable, or reliable.
You'd have to be a real enthusiast to tolerate one today.
Apart from the word Comfortable, you could attribute all those 'features' to an Omega. ;D
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Standard ShoveIt was a heap of cack. Gutless, couldn't stop, didn't like corners, and invariably disintegrated like all Vauxhalls from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Wasn't particularly comfortable, or reliable.
You'd have to be a real enthusiast to tolerate one today.
Indeed. One of my mates at school had a 1.3 Chevette. Given the number of "moments" he had in that, they must have been a total liability with more power. :o
Fun on a wet roundabout, though. ;D
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The extra 100 or so bhp that mine had was great fun on dry roads. Bilstien shocks,stiffer springs and bushes, wider tyres helped matters a lot.
In the wet however,it was scary as fack.I had a race (in the wet) with a 2.2 Princess one night and hardly seen which way he went. :-[
The driver (owner of our local village garage) was a pretty talented bloke though. Ex British formula Ford champion and Lotus F3 driver,who showed me his race results where he regularily beat Jody Sheckter,Alan Jones and many other drivers who became well known a few years later.
That eased my acute embarrasment a bit. ;D
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Was given a brand new one as a company car moons ago, had to drive to Leeds to pick it up and hand my Escort back, on the way back down the M1 needed petrol, so stopped for about 45 mins trying to work out where the bloody petrol filler cap was. :-[
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Was the Chevette a scaled down Cavalier? Or are they basically the same car :-\
The red saloon in the original link looks just like a Mk1 Cavalier...
Was occasionally taken to school in one in the early eighties, I can still smell the damp and petrol fume mix ;D It was poo brown as well, as if that was it's biggest issue ;D
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There was a strong family resemblance (particularily with the saloon) but I dont think thy had any parts in common at all,apart from possibly minor trim pieces like door handles. :y
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Standard ShoveIt was a heap of cack. Gutless, couldn't stop, didn't like corners, and invariably disintegrated like all Vauxhalls from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Wasn't particularly comfortable, or reliable.
You'd have to be a real enthusiast to tolerate one today.
Apart from the word Comfortable, you could attribute all those 'features' to an Omega. ;D
Oh I don't know, the Omega is pretty rapid and capable in corners and on the brakes for the class of car it is. And is pretty reliable - far more than the Shitvette could ever aspire to.
Corrosion. Yes, well, err, it is a Vauxhall!
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Mine had a rust hole in one of the wings when it was three years old. ;D
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Those were the days ;D
I've owned four Mk2 Granadas all of them had been resprayed at least once where the paint had rusted off ::)
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Was the Chevette a scaled down Cavalier? Or are they basically the same car :-\
The red saloon in the original link looks just like a Mk1 Cavalier...
Was occasionally taken to school in one in the early eighties, I can still smell the damp and petrol fume mix ;D It was poo brown as well, as if that was it's biggest issue ;D
The Cavalier was significantly larger.
It was launched with the 1256 pushrod engine from the Viva/Chevette as an option if you didn't want the 1.6 cam in head engine. I don't know if anyone actually bought one :-\
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Was the Chevette a scaled down Cavalier? Or are they basically the same car :-\
The red saloon in the original link looks just like a Mk1 Cavalier...
Was occasionally taken to school in one in the early eighties, I can still smell the damp and petrol fume mix ;D It was poo brown as well, as if that was it's biggest issue ;D
The Cavalier was significantly larger.
It was launched with the 1256 pushrod engine from the Viva/Chevette as an option if you didn't want the 1.6 cam in head engine. I don't know if anyone actually bought one :-\
I drove one with the shuvvit lump in,God it was slow :-X
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so was mine it was a special??.....what a heap it was lol
::) ;D My ex girlfriend had one years ago and when i drove it couldnt seem to get the hang of the gears ::)
had one . didn't fit in it no room for my long legs :y