eeb43 Posted January 6, 2021 Report Posted January 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, colr6 said: Opel/ Opel/ Opel .....the sister company to VAUXHALL......you going soft in your old age mark or coming over to the dark side...lol noooooooooooo long before vauxhall was related! and if vauxhall stopped making heads from swiss cheese they may have lasted a bit longer!
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 7, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 7, 2021 13 hours ago, eeb43 said: golf- matra no idea 914/916 cpbra wont rust lambo or copy 928 opel gt jag/daimler granny dont know but its got elan rear lights Not bad, a few blanks there though. Will also need some specifics on a few of those, not just a Jag or a Lambo and definitely more info for anything OSF! LOL
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 7, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 7, 2021 12 hours ago, accord83 said: I'll try to fill in the gaps. 1, Lancia Beta Monte Carlo series 2 2, Mazda 110s Cosmo sport 10, Iso Grifo. You certainly know all the obscure ones that are meant to catch every body out. How did you possibly know about the Iso Grifo? I had to look it up! LOL What is the significance of the Mazda's number 2?
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 7, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 7, 2021 13 hours ago, eeb43 said: if that opel is going spare can i have it????? 12 hours ago, colr6 said: Opel/ Opel/ Opel .....the sister company to VAUXHALL......you going soft in your old age mark or coming over to the dark side...lol Ahhhhh so its not a GM vs Ford thing its really and directly a Vauxhall vendetta? You must have been left in the rain and snow late at night on the motorway at some point when you were younger by a Vauxhall then? We had re-badged Astra's and Calibra's at one point but I think thats as close as we got to Vauxhall's. They rebranded some of our Holden's as well so it would be hard to tar all Vauxhall's with the same brush. I used to love VX220s but we never got them here.
eeb43 Posted January 7, 2021 Report Posted January 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said: Ahhhhh so its not a GM vs Ford thing its really and directly a Vauxhall vendetta? You must have been left in the rain and snow late at night on the motorway at some point when you were younger by a Vauxhall then? We had re-badged Astra's and Calibra's at one point but I think thats as close as we got to Vauxhall's. They rebranded some of our Holden's as well so it would be hard to tar all Vauxhall's with the same brush. I used to love VX220s but we never got them here. vauxhall made a few decent engines in the 50s but! the viva onwards they are crap unreliable turds!
accord83 Posted January 7, 2021 Report Posted January 7, 2021 11 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said: You certainly know all the obscure ones that are meant to catch every body out. How did you possibly know about the Iso Grifo? I had to look it up! LOL What is the significance of the Mazda's number 2? Triangular pistons? 😂😂 The Grifo was a car I lusted for after I once saw one at the roadside in about 1976ish with a cardboard sign in the window for £950, a shame, as I was coppering up to get enough to buy some fish and chips at the time! 1
accord83 Posted January 7, 2021 Report Posted January 7, 2021 9 hours ago, eeb43 said: vauxhall made a few decent engines in the 50s but! the viva onwards they are crap unreliable turds! Best Police cars I drove were the first Cavalier Sri's for rural Traffic Patrol, and Senators for the big tarmac. They didn't break. (Except for ripping off the rear bumper body kit every time we reversed the Sri 130's off the road onto a verge, solved with cable ties!) 1
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 8, 2021 7 hours ago, accord83 said: Triangular pistons? 😂😂 The Grifo was a car I lusted for after I once saw one at the roadside in about 1976ish with a cardboard sign in the window for £950, a shame, as I was coppering up to get enough to buy some fish and chips at the time! Yes it was the start of their rotary production, mores the pity (not a fan LOL) Oh wow I could go without fish and chips for one for whole a year if needs be! Still you seem to know your classic cars extremely well.
accord83 Posted January 8, 2021 Report Posted January 8, 2021 9 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said: Yes it was the start of their rotary production, mores the pity (not a fan LOL) Oh wow I could go without fish and chips for one for whole a year if needs be! Still you seem to know your classic cars extremely well. Try and talk to me about anything built in the last 25yrs, I'll glaze over as if you were telling me about a fridge.😂 1
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 8, 2021 1 hour ago, accord83 said: Try and talk to me about anything built in the last 25yrs, I'll glaze over as if you were telling me about a fridge.😂 I'm the same. All the lower end family stuff now from Honda, Toyota or whoever all look the same so I can't tell one from the other if asked. Add to that that black and silver are the only colours chosen it makes identification even worse. Its even been put to me "You're into cars why don't you know what that its?!" LOL I just tell them I suffer from plastic blindness. 1
Moderator Rally Pack 2000 Posted January 12, 2021 Author Moderator Report Posted January 12, 2021 Just for @eeb43 Park 'em and leave 'em.
colr6 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 Oooooowww a magnum and a sports hatch.......want them 2
eeb43 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, colr6 said: Oooooowww a magnum and a sports hatch.......want them you would need some ford engines to make them driveable! 2
eeb43 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 9 minutes ago, colr6 said: Oooooowww a magnum and a sports hatch.......want them ive got a magnum for sale 1
colr6 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, eeb43 said: you would need some ford engines to make them driveable! Nah 1800 in one and 2.3 in the other, go well enough
colr6 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 4 minutes ago, eeb43 said: ive got a magnum for sale Just sent a pic of that to my lad
DT36 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 5 minutes ago, colr6 said: Oooooowww a magnum and a sports hatch.......want them Haha, these bring back memories of my miss-spent youth 😁 My best friends birthday was a bit in front of mine and his Dad had a nail of a Viva. When he hit 17 and I was 16, I would sit beside him as a competent driver on my older brothers driving licence. 😇 If we managed to entice any girls into the car for a quiet drive, we used to sing a line from the Macc Lads. 🎶 Vauxhall Viva's covered in rust, but you can't f#*k your bird on a 29 bus 🎶 I then hit 17 and when I was home on leave every 6 weeks from Apprentice College he would sit beside me in my Mam's Chevette for us to get trapping. Either that or we were ripping about the village on 2 strokes making a right noise nuisance. Vauxhalls bring back so many memories, even though we were a pair of urchins. 1
Johnny Boy Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 I had a 2.3 Firenza SL sport, back in the day, when all my mates had Escorts. I had souped it up, with a Vulcan big valve head, piper 285 cam, and twin 48 Delortos. Janspeed exhaust manifold I never had it on the dyno, but I guess it made around 200bhp, too much for the Vauxhall gearboxes, I had to convert it to a Ford single rail 2000e box. Like most of my cars, I build them , and then someone else wants them more than me, and I sell them and move on to the next project.🙄 1
DT36 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 9 minutes ago, colr6 said: Just sent a pic of that to my lad Noooo, is that a Puch? Love it 👍
Johnny Boy Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 Those Vauxhall slant 4's were half a GM V8 design
eeb43 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 19 minutes ago, Johnny Boy said: Those Vauxhall slant 4's were half a GM V8 design not the best half though!
eeb43 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 22 minutes ago, dt36 said: Noooo, is that a Puch? Love it 👍 yes a puch magnum x i bought it christmas time
DT36 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 1 minute ago, eeb43 said: yes a puch magnum x i bought it christmas time How much you flogging in for? I ain't got a lot mind, as I'm saving up without Betty finding out 😂
eeb43 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 9 minutes ago, dt36 said: How much you flogging in for? I ain't got a lot mind, as I'm saving up without Betty finding out 😂 want £300 for it
colr6 Posted January 12, 2021 Report Posted January 12, 2021 I had the 2.3 sport SL also, went very well. Metallic green with light green stripe. Ate gearboxes and back tyres....so much fun. The days when you didn’t worry about the price of fuel, foot to boards everywhere 😍😍😍😍😍 1
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