I bought this car for £400 taxed + tested and drove it back from Manchester in November 2001.

The car has been treated with Ziebart at some point, so is surprisingly solid underneath!

I restored and drove this fine vehicle for a couple of years, but decided to sell it when I started uni as I was going to be skint for three years and I didn’t want to neglect it.

It went to another retro nut, who has taken it even further with vinyl graphics and more mods.

I miss this car dearly, even when it always had a flat battery because it didn’t have a “lights on” warning buzzer. And I miss scraping the front arches every time I went round a corner, and the noise, and the stress of finding LRP.

And the rust.

120bhp rebuilt 2.0S engine
Twin choke Weber
K&N
Proper Braided hoses
5 speed box
Back axle off a 1.8 Manta
Viscous coupled fan

70mm drop Jamex springs
Gabriel shocks

Grooved disks
Reconned twin pot callipers
Mintex road pads (Tried 1144 compound but they squealed)
Goodridge braided hoses
Rear drum brakes all replaced

Interior

Standard retro seats and dash
Custom Solutions ally window winders
Momo Ally and leather gear knob

Bodywork

Bumpers removed
Side mouldings, pins, badges etc removed
Rear door handles smoothed
Passenger side de-locked
Chrome trims removed from gutters
Windscreen de-chromed
Ariel hole smoothed
Headlight washer and spotlight wiring removed
Trick transponder Immobiliser
Clear front indicators
Front grille de-chromed

Future Plans

None, as the Opel has now gone to a new home

Most of the work on the car was done by Clive from Custom Solutions and Edley from Fast and Funky motors. This car cost me a lot of money as I replaced nearly everything on it - the original stuff was;

(a) 25 years old
(b) crap anyway.