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Its been sat on my drive a week now, so its about time I started a new diary to chronicle the re-birth of this rather well know car!
Background - I was offered the shell little over 2 weeks ago by Chip, after a day or so of umming and ahhing I just thought sod it - rust free GTE in yellow, I really have to have it!! I trailered it back from near Oxford last weekend and got on with the process of being chuffed with it!! Of corse its best known as Gary Pooles old car, it was featured in the first issue of Total Vauxhall back in September 2001.
My plans for it involve using a lot of the bits from my old GTE, the cage, brakes, wheels and the interior in particular. I'll also be swapping the entire loom from the grey one into the yellow shell so I can fit my customised dash. I'll also be chanmging the bonnet and front bumper. I dont want to set to many plans though as TBH, plans never seem to be followed with projects like this!!!
Here it is at the moment, I havent done much except clean it out inside just so I can tell whats been done to what. Im going to take the dash out tomorrow to get a better idea of whats going on behind there, but untill the old grey GTE is out of the way I cant really do to much to this one!
As it is now;
I'll keep this updated over the next....well however long it takes
Background - I was offered the shell little over 2 weeks ago by Chip, after a day or so of umming and ahhing I just thought sod it - rust free GTE in yellow, I really have to have it!! I trailered it back from near Oxford last weekend and got on with the process of being chuffed with it!! Of corse its best known as Gary Pooles old car, it was featured in the first issue of Total Vauxhall back in September 2001.
My plans for it involve using a lot of the bits from my old GTE, the cage, brakes, wheels and the interior in particular. I'll also be swapping the entire loom from the grey one into the yellow shell so I can fit my customised dash. I'll also be chanmging the bonnet and front bumper. I dont want to set to many plans though as TBH, plans never seem to be followed with projects like this!!!
Here it is at the moment, I havent done much except clean it out inside just so I can tell whats been done to what. Im going to take the dash out tomorrow to get a better idea of whats going on behind there, but untill the old grey GTE is out of the way I cant really do to much to this one!
As it is now;
I'll keep this updated over the next....well however long it takes
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