Hey, names carl im 18, thought id show off my car
its my first car and i love it !

Started life as a humble 1.8 astra cd shes only done 55k, and wasnt rotten ha, i was in no rush to get it on the road so striped it bare.





















arches and sills were shot as expected, but the floor and bulkhead were all solid!

sooo new sills and arches fitted





cutting a long story short......
sprayed the car.....
put it all back together with gte kit



and the nearly finished product.........

Very nice, Im Vauxhall though and Through mate, to make it more GTE you need the bee-sting ariel in the centre of the roof at the front

thanks, nahhh an XE please so it moves like one

still needs the gte bonnet and the roof spraying

C20LET or a Z20LET mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I have a work freind thats selling a MK1 GTE, but doesnt know how much for yet.

Wow, its a credit to yourself the amount of time and money you have spent to get it back towards its former glory!

I have never really taken much notice of these car's, but its only because you see so few of them about nowadays, so I dont know much about em.

It looks so smooth and unblemished now!

cost a small fortune, was tempted to go with the x30xe out of a omegea, few people have done it over on astra-mk2 and works out tonnes cheaper to get to over 200 brake

the mk1 is the car i allways wanted, like chickens lips now

welcome to the site mate.

Very nice job so far, what else you got planned for it?

Not seen one of these in a looonnng time, nevermind a modded one.

A great choice of uncommon car to mod IMO

Thanks matt, its took 6 months to get this far, its by no means perfect but its better than what it was
now that im driving it ive lost motiavation to finishing it off

tbh im not into heavily modded cars, the only aftermarket thing on the car are the wheels
so the body is staying standard

future engine swap to a 20seh out of a cav sri 130

his is a pearler, just a starter motor and backbox needed to finsh it off. also tax and MOT needed as its been of road for a long time being brought to the standard its at.

http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa314/l88wad/cardo%20astra%20mk1%20GTE/

I WANT IT! stop winding me up
hmmm, 500 quid id say!

thats how much you would like to pay.

If I wasnt ploughing all my current funds into buying a house I would have it as a second/show car.

Good Job done

As joe says welcome mate

Welcome matey.

Nice motor not a big vauxhall fan me but if i had top pick my top 3 the mk1 and mk2 astra's are both there (dont ask whats number 1 :r:)

What you have done looks nice indeed good to see you havnt gone over the top.

Would you be doing the engine swap yourself???

dam good job mate keep up good work and welcome to cw enjoy

tha cars a credit to u mate, its good when u see all ur hard work ammount to something that looks so good. get urself along to nexr months meet and say hi !!

thanks for the comments lads! im quite proud of it myself to say the least

yes me and the old man will be doing it on the drive
both the engine are identical to look at, the difference with the new(ish) one im putting in is it has, high comp pistons, higher lift cam and ecu and obv its a 2L
ill be using the same gbox i have on now and all the mounts will be the same so its a straight swap
20bhp for £80 sounds good to me as they say "no replacement for displacement"

Hmmm I think I may have seen this yesterday (as in Sunday) afternoon going towards Tesco's roundabout, either that or there is a very much alike car driving around lol.

I only caught a quickish glimpse, but if it was this car, it looks even better in real.

lol yep that was probably me, went to tescos and then new brighton.
its a rare looking car because its a 5 door, they were only made i think from c reg to e reg so most of them are scrap

decidied to fit a golf VR6 front splitter as ive heared they fit pretty well
didnt take much but of trimming glued and screwed
still not 100% finished, needs joining in the middle but its on!



her out on the road!

looks sweet matey

Ditto, keep up the good work fella!

thanks lads

a small vid of the vaux meet we went to

Doesnt half look sleek and streamlined when ya look at it in action

splitter makes a difference

looks very smart on the motorway

what VX meet did you go to?

was gonna ask that, lol all us vx boys could go the next one .....

www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk

they have regular NW meets

its was to a pub in the peak district

^Nice bit of repair work there, those CD's are rarer than the GTEs.

BTW wadfather, How much is your mate selling the mk1 for?

nice motor mate

R.I.P loved you

my fault, bent chassis leg, scrap
im so gutted, but got a MK3 astra now and bunged the wheels off this onto it.

gutted for ya carl mate such a nice car aswell

wot happened? shame matey, was tidy that !

Took a wrong turn down your road the and een this parked up like that was ment to ask what happened.

That your cav aswell if so looks nice.

gutted for you mate.

Youput a lot of hard work into that aswell

gutted mate

ye i was upset when i done it, spent some time on it and sweared that i wouldnt crash it........

got lost looking for a job after the boss having ago for being a few minutes late, too busy looking for the road and she stopped in front of me, so gutted.

ye the cav was my first car at the tender young age of 16 :):) yet again both done all the work to it then i gave it to me dad as i was never going to afford to drive it.

well thats it ill get some pics of my MK3, aint got nothing on my MK2 but oh well

thanks lads

mate, we learn from our mistakes.... good luck for ur next motor... nobody was hurt (i guess) so yea, all the best

very nice indeed !