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its not bad really. picked it up from crewe on the 9th of this month for £300! currently having an engine rebuild as the piston rings are worn so it smokes like hell!. needs some welding to the usual rot spots but has 3 months t&t im thinking of putting a small block chevy into it and keeping it looking standard apart from a respray in brown or bright 70's muscle car green.

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Posted Image(good old poverty spec fusion as the family car it gets an amazingly hard time :D )

changed the grille as i like this one berrte and swapped the single wingmirror to a matching pair.

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i also have these two vivas.

 

standard viva s was a one owner from new car thats having everything done. (exept the bloke welding it has screwed all the welding as its poo.)

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this i picked up from a local scrappy with a MINT shell! tax free to.

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and if you had not guessed i love vauxhalls and i love viva's!!!.

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It should be a darker metallic shade but has had a crap overspray with an opel colour and has scratches and runs everywhere (proper autoshite bodge style) it'll stay like this for now altho I do want a set of wellers for it and to lift the rear up a bit as it's to low.

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A couple of lovely Viva’s there, vivapower. Especially the estate. DFM - nice and local to me too! I don’t think I’ve seen an estate Viva in the metal for, well, it scares me to think. Certainly a real rareity these days and povvo spec too. Well done! The HC Viva’s are amongst my favourite old Vauxhalls. I’ve always liked the look of them.

 

I can only reiterate what others have said regarding the colour. I quite like them as they are, particularly the estate. That looks extreamly good. The Viva S’s paintwork doesn’t look too bad from the pictures - but then again, pictures can be deceiving. I adore the wheels on it (see below).

 

I don’t mean to take interest away from your lovely Viva's, but something in one of your pictures has been bugging me. I hope you don't mind...

 

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...I've got a funny feeling the silver Firenza with the black vinal roof behind it could very well be an old, lost, very familiar car to me :D . I know it's a long shot, but do you remember the registration number by any chance? It's just that my granddad, a former Vauxhall worker, had one identical to that from new (although it had the wheels on from the Viva S back then - or ones very similar with the chrome caps in the centre) for 24 years. It's been pictured here on autoshite before about 12/18 months ago and almost gave me a heart attack when I saw it again - MXD 689K. If so, I've got several very happy memories of that car as a child. A wonderful and always very faithful motor. If not, it's the first Firenza I've seen which is pretty much it's double! :shock:

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well mr mk5 escort you may like these photo's!!.

this car is always at the chalmondley castle shows (nr malpas) and comes in a convoy of 3/4 other vivas all owned by the same family. unfortunatley as i recall its now looking rather rough now but is used regularly.

 

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my green estate has been upgraded with a magnum interior so has a rev counter and all that :D im trying to swap the engine as its crap and am going to billing in it next weekend and have loads to do!! :shock: .

the viva s will be totally standard as its a rare limited edition and there are not many left now.

i may reshell the green car into the blue car for the mint shell and then reshell my sportshatch into the spare shell as the shell was ROTTEN :shock:

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thats spot on actually.

a north wales car all its life last registered owner died and it has sat in a few yards ever since. i "saved it" last year but had unbelievable rot! so has beed stripped and weighed in. i have lots of parts for the "restoration"

im only missing the avon alloys rear axle a 2.3 engine and the stupdly hard to find strange sized cibe lights.

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