Rusty Monza shite

12,926 · March 10

I love these threads, thanks for sharing so many pics, it’s fascinating to see how these are put together (and how they fall apart).

These are awesome cars, am following with interest.

3,290 · March 10

Top work. Glad to see the fresh steel going back in.

As motorpunk said. It's interesting seeing the inner panels. They didn't change much in pressing style between the different models.

37,024 · March 10

Driving the Monza 18 months ago when you kindly loaned it to me, it never felt it had that amount of rust in it. It was a very enjoyable experience.

I am going to start a campaign to compel you to replace the Alloy wheels with standard GSE wheels!

1,421 · March 11

Well with the new arch on, as soon as the lower arm is back, we will find out if it’s staying as a chav car or back to standard

22,566 · March 11

Is that the standard GSE interior? Those seats are sublime. I'm guessing Recaro like so many Vauxhalls at the time. The Recaro seats in my old Cavalier GSis were lovely too - decent bolsters and held you like glue around the twisties. Whatever fabric they were using to make their seats at the time was pretty much bombproof, apart from the very edge of the driver's bolster.

I'm going out on a limb to say that the old girl looks fit on that set of deep dish rims, rather than standard.

8,967 · March 11

On 10/03/2025 at 11:28, Six-cylinder said:

I am going to start a campaign to compel you to replace the Alloy wheels with standard GSE wheels!

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And I will campaign to keep them Sir Chris; 95% of aftermarket alloys look a bit shite.

Those are the exception IMHO.

37,024 · March 11

On 11/03/2025 at 07:43, outlaw118 said:

And I will campaign to keep them Sir Chris; 95% of aftermarket alloys look a bit shite.

Those are the exception IMHO.

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This was my non Autoshite friend's old one, just perfect with factory wheels.

7,914 · March 12

On 11/03/2025 at 09:53, Six-cylinder said:

This was my non Autoshite friend's old one, just perfect with factory wheels.

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Exactly the same as the manual I had back in the mid 90's. I have couple of pics somewhere.

37,024 · March 12

On 12/03/2025 at 20:57, spike60 said:

Exactly the same as the manual I had back in the mid 90's. I have couple of pics somewhere.

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This was a manual.

It replaced an Opel Manta GTE in white.

1,421 · March 12

It’s must be rust, rust, rust…..dum dum….nothing more, nothing less…..solid metal is best.

now it’s warmed up, I’m more enthusiastic to be in the garage…..plus my wife left me unattended.

37,024 · March 12

That's enough to give me nightmares!

It took me a long time to get over my own rusty experience!

1,421 · March 13

On 12/03/2025 at 23:08, Six-cylinder said:

That's enough to give me nightmares!

It took me a long time to get over my own rusty experience!

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So wait, this bit which is actually fairly straight forward gives you nightmares.

but when when whole rear ended fell off, you were fine about it!

17,756 · March 13

On 11/03/2025 at 07:25, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Is that the standard GSE interior? Those seats are sublime. I'm guessing Recaro like so many Vauxhalls at the time. The Recaro seats in my old Cavalier GSis were lovely too - decent bolsters and held you like glue around the twisties. Whatever fabric they were using to make their seats at the time was pretty much bombproof, apart from the very edge of the driver's bolster.

I'm going out on a limb to say that the old girl looks fit on that set of deep dish rims, rather than standard.

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The monza recaros are so comfy I fitted a set in my 16 valve manta! 🥰

37,024 · March 13

On 13/03/2025 at 06:49, ianbmw said:

So wait, this bit which is actually fairly straight forward gives you nightmares.

but when when whole rear ended fell off, you were fine about it!

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I do have experience of my rear end falling off, but think the bulkhead/windscreen surround is much worse to deal with.