Viva GT - resto thread - recap and restart
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:41 am
So, I figured I had better get a thread up here, partly for advice, which I will need lots of, and partly to keep me moving forward as my goal for this year is to pull my thumb out and get on with finishing it.
To recap - about two years ago a Viva Gt showed up on Kijiji (local classified) after a few weeks, I replied, found out I knew the seller. He (the seller) had in turn bought it from another who had had the body work done, assembled parts, stripped cars and then, his life crashed and after some time, he sold the car as an abandoned project.
I bought the car and, embarrassingly it has mostly sat ever since. As rare as these are in the UK, they are even rarer here. I have seen one on Kijiji in Calgary for sale, have stripped the last of one which was then crushed and have recently purchased the parts of another (excluding engine) - these may be the last ones in North America.
This is the car as I bought it.
The engine was seized, long story but basically the good "pickled" engine was left when the PO picked it up leaving the spare seized one. I had to have it bored 30 thou over and it is ready to go together. So, without further ado, here goes:
To recap - about two years ago a Viva Gt showed up on Kijiji (local classified) after a few weeks, I replied, found out I knew the seller. He (the seller) had in turn bought it from another who had had the body work done, assembled parts, stripped cars and then, his life crashed and after some time, he sold the car as an abandoned project.
I bought the car and, embarrassingly it has mostly sat ever since. As rare as these are in the UK, they are even rarer here. I have seen one on Kijiji in Calgary for sale, have stripped the last of one which was then crushed and have recently purchased the parts of another (excluding engine) - these may be the last ones in North America.
This is the car as I bought it.
The engine was seized, long story but basically the good "pickled" engine was left when the PO picked it up leaving the spare seized one. I had to have it bored 30 thou over and it is ready to go together. So, without further ado, here goes: