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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: albitz on 19 September 2009, 00:17:15

Title: I,m tempted.....
Post by: albitz on 19 September 2009, 00:17:15: Havent had a project to play about with for a while,just seen this,its only 20 miles from me.Would be a real trip down memory lane.The wife would kill me though,she hated that car. ::) ;D ;D
Anyone got a nice chevette hatchback shell sitting around ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1978-VAUXHALL-CHEVETTE-2300-HS-SILVER-16-VALVE-TWIN-CAM_W0QQitemZ110434310108QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item19b665d7dc&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Title: Re: I,m tempted.....
Post by: Vamps on 19 September 2009, 00:34:39: Quote
Havent had a project to play about with for a while,just seen this,its only 20 miles from me.Would be a real trip down memory lane.The wife would kill me though,she hated that car. ::) ;D ;D
Anyone got a nice chevette hatchback shell sitting around ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1978-VAUXHALL-CHEVETTE-2300-HS-SILVER-16-VALVE-TWIN-CAM_W0QQitemZ110434310108QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item19b665d7dc&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

I understand where you are coming from, though not an early Vauxhall fan, would rather have an early Ford ::) that does look a little beyond saving, unless you can find a shell :) Nut we do like to play and our swmbo's don't understand ;) ;)
Title: Re: I,m tempted.....
Post by: albitz on 19 September 2009, 00:41:19: It would need a shell to do a proper job on it. :y
I actually found my old one sitting in a garden less than 10 miles from where I live about 5 years ago.It was in a terrible state,brambles growing through the floor etc.About a year later I noticed it was gone and then a couple of months after that I saw someone with what looked like a new HSR shell on a trailer behind their car.It was only a couple of miles from where my old one had been sat so I think it was a fair bet that someone was rebuilding it into a new shell.I hope so anyway. :)
Title: Re: I,m tempted.....
Post by: Vamps on 19 September 2009, 00:48:53: Not seen it for a while but near to us I have seen a mint Chevette several times, a basic model R reg :-/ driven by an elderly chap, so body's are around, bit like Mini's and Escorts, lots of fiddles going on, I have seen log books and chassis plates for sale :o ~~nick~~ find a car and change the identity, a doddle on older cars :-X
Title: Re: I,m tempted.....
Post by: Weds on 19 September 2009, 20:45:36: Always fancied a Chevette HS, I did have the 2300 VX490 which had the same gearbox with dogleg 1st (left and back)