My Viva e was acquired in 2007 as a bog standard car (flat front) - the e stands for economy
in the days when you were lucky to get a steering wheel on the base models !!!! I fitted the magard (aftermarket) nosecone plus quad lights and oldnail f/glass bonnet along with a set of avons plus new 205/60 13 tyres , soon after getting the car.
recently i added a proper steel bumper (the original was moulded into the nosecone as with the snoot kitted old nail race car).
I have a new proper nose cone and front bumper in the attic (never been on a car!) but i dont want to use these so i bought a n/cone off a sportshatch (the estate version of HPF) plus bumper etc as well as a pair of flat top f/glass wings all cut back to accept the n/cone. Ive reworked the light boxes to accept renault 11 oblong headlights as these are the closest thing i could find to the stupidly priced snoot cibies.
Hopefully the viva will end up as a clone of the silver one , but im still as yet undecided on colour (90% wants silver the other 10% poss bright yellow) . Also i may cut down the bulge on the bonnet to a more realistic level or just convert it to standard , - i want to retain the bonnet as its f/glass , and getting hold of a normal f/glass one is proving difficult !
i may use the lower vents and fabricate them into the snoot n/cone - we'll see
the front end conversion will have to wait until the rest of it is done!
