The Never Ending Champion Project

[BazW]

Start of a new project so I thought start the diary from the first day
Picked this up from Coventry this afternoon





83k on the clock with a load of old mot's and service books to back it up. Going on that it's only been doing around 5k a year since new.

The only essential work needed on it is replace one of the sills and give it a service (plugs, cambelt etc) other than that it's tidying it up

I've got a shed full of bits waiting to go on like a complete dark interior, seats plastics everything, so they'll be put on over the next week or 2 ready for the retro cars show

For some reason it already has a black dash and dark centre console (don't mind it saves me having to rip the old one out) but I thought these all came with biege dashes except the champions

[Jon S]

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mint m8 ,was that the one on ebay?

[Tony K]

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How much was it in the end?

[richie00boy]

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Looks like a nice one. I assume the champion badges were stuck on after?

I'm very interested in the front seats and door cards if mint.

[BazW]

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Looks like a nice one. I assume the champion badges were stuck on after?

I'm very interested in the front seats and door cards if mint.

i've been in the boot and the carpets that cover the inner wheel arches are black as well it looks like the interior has been swapped at some time, the steering wheel, pedals and seatbelts match up with the mileage on the dash (that is there all in good condition) but the front drivers seat is worn on the bolsters

did vauxhall ever do the dark interior as an option like they did with analogue dails on the gte?

The door cards have been cut to fit speakers in i was going to bin them the passenger seat seems in good condition if anybody needs a cheap replacement

[astrasteve23]

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looks tidy! what did you pay for it? so is it a champion and someone has pinched the leather and put some old seats in?

[Kris]

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it looks like a champ badge on the tailgate ?

[astrasteve23]

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yeah it is a champ badge, so is it a champion?

[Ross_Mk2]

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Its A Champ Thats Been Robbed Of Its Dignity!!!

[Belmont turbo]

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i saw that on ebay and i thourt it was a champ as its got the black dash the champ badges and the semi cucle revcounter as my mates ripped one apart a few years back and it had all the same stuff in it. ive got the rear door cards in my shed

it looks well looked after how shiney is it i bet you can see your face in it

[BazW]

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didn't get much done today as it's done nowt but piss it down all day

did manage to get rid of the silver line that the previous owner put on the car and took it over to my mates place to check why the engine management light was on.the management light was down to a dodgy lamda sensor.

got a break in the weather this evening so I decided to go out to the B roads for a quick blast and found out the rear wheels catch the arches so tomorrow the cav gsi rims are going on.

[Kris]

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how can you tell if a champ is a champ ,do thet have it on the V5 or is there anything on the car ie codes or vin numbers as apposed to the visual things like badges and leather ?

[BazW]

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how can you tell if a champ is a champ ,do thet have it on the V5 or is there anything on the car ie codes or vin numbers as apposed to the visual things like badges and leather ?

as far as I know they don't have anything on the v5 same as the cav sri 130's (they just said sri on the v5) I thought all champions were registered in London as well

best bet is to ask some of the champ owners on here and have a look at thier cars when we're at santa pod

i'm going to put my dark interior in today so i'll get some pic's of the car before and after

[ehoulton]

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Looks nice and clean m8

[motorruner]

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thats a nice looking astra gte its the same colour as my gte how come yours as got a black dash in it as i got a beige dash in mine which i hate i want a black one