British Leyland

[Moi]

Had a dung-out of the garagre today and viola' - found a 1969 MOTOR magazine with a Vauxhall Ventora 12,000 mile report, I'd loved to have had that car, all the options including overdrive, top speed 108mph, and such style!

Comment in the mag: "it will comfortabley hold 95-100mph purrring along in overdrive top at well below a lazy 4,000rpm.." (try cruisng at THAT sort of speed today)

Are you able to scan those pages and put them up for all to see, especially those who have no idea what a Vauxhall looks like, let alone a Ventora...

That coke-bottle kick made those Victors / Ventoras [FD series?] look like bigger HB Vivas or vice versa...
Had a HA and two HCs - a 1200 and a 1800.

[Flip]

I took the MG for a WOF yesterday. I have done 34miles since its last one.

Its a neat wee car to drive and I always wonder why I don't drive it more often.

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I took the MG for a WOF yesterday. I have done 34miles since its last one.

Its a neat wee car to drive and I always wonder why I don't drive it more often.

Very nice wee car indeed. I would be happy to drive it for you, if you are too busy.



In other news..........There is a MK1 mini in todays local rag, unfinished project, spares ect........$500.
Anyone interested I can post them the PH number.

[scumdog]

that'd have to be a road ready car? going on the parts price listing in the booklet you could get the whole lot ready for motor & trans for about 160 even the order form has a bit that if you paid 10% deposit you could pay the rest off lol them were the days trust in peeps being honest.

My bad - I was meaning the Ventora, doh!

And my Mistral had a 3" X 3" box section chassis and used Mk5 six-cylinder Cortina front and rear suspension, diff etc.

Only did low 14 second 1/4 miles - but that was taking off in 2nd with buckets of wheel-spin and smoke...needed bigger rubber.

Top speed would have to be 130mph+ (I didn't have the nads to find out how far past the 130 the + was)

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My bad - I was meaning the Ventora, doh!

And my Mistral had a 3" X 3" box section chassis and used Mk5 six-cylinder Cortina front and rear suspension, diff etc.

Only did low 14 second 1/4 miles - but that was taking off in 2nd with buckets of wheel-spin and smoke...needed bigger rubber.

Top speed would have to be 130mph+ (I didn't have the nads to find out how far past the 130 the + was)

yeah but... what was the power plant T?

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yeah but... what was the power plant T?

302, Im guessing windsor or cleveland????

[scumdog]

Are you able to scan those pages and put them up for all to see, especially those who have no idea what a Vauxhall looks like, let alone a Ventora...

That coke-bottle kick made those Victors / Ventoras [FD series?] look like bigger HB Vivas or vice versa...
Had a HA and two HCs - a 1200 and a 1800.

Sorry, don't have the ability - and the magazine spine is falling apart as it is.

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Are you able to scan those pages and put them up for all to see, especially those who have no idea what a Vauxhall looks like, let alone a Ventora...

That coke-bottle kick made those Victors / Ventoras [FD series?] look like bigger HB Vivas or vice versa...
Had a HA and two HCs - a 1200 and a 1800.

I put a pretty nifty chevette motor in my last HC viva, was a good car on gravel.

[scumdog]

yeah but... what was the power plant T?

Warm 302 Windsor - double valve-springs, hot cam, alloy intake, 600 Holley, headers etc.

4th gear wheelspin in the wet at 50kph, like a go-kart on steroids...:

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Warm 302 Windsor - double valve-springs, hot cam, alloy intake, 600 Holley, headers etc.

4th gear wheelspin in the wet at 50kph, like a go-kart on steroids...:

Sounds nice.

[pete376403]

I put a pretty nifty chevette motor in my last HC viva, was a good car on gravel.

A workmate took that a step further and put an Isuzu Gemini motor and box into his Chevette. (This was back in the days when you were permitted such things without certs, etc)

Gemini and Chevette were pretty much the same floor pan, it was a very easy swap.

(Chevette handled well but had a shit motor, Gemini vice versa

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A workmate took that a step further and put an Isuzu Gemini motor and box into his Chevette. (This was back in the days when you were permitted such things without certs, etc)

Gemini and Chevette were pretty much the same floor pan, it was a very easy swap.

(Chevette handled well but had a shit motor, Gemini vice versa

Mine was from an HS chevette a mate got from somewhere, 2.2 slant motor. Bloody hard to get all 16 valves bouncing thats for sure.Man that thing could rev out, took it to a local gymkahana once and paul adams was there, I think he was NZ rally champ at that stage, and even he was impressed.

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Very nice wee car indeed. I would be happy to drive it for you, if you are too busy.



In other news..........There is a MK1 mini in todays local rag, unfinished project, spares ect........$500.
Anyone interested I can post them the PH number.

If you ever want to take a "propper" english sports car out for a spin, there are quite a few nice back roads around here in the hills.

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If you ever want to take a "propper" english sports car out for a spin, there are quite a few nice back roads around here in the hills.

Sounds like an invite to me.

[scumdog]

Found another old mag from '69 with a bigger write-up on Vokkers - found out the only 3.3 Victor available to the Poms was the wagon, if they wanted the saloon model it had to be a Ventora - oh my, what a decision to make!...