This one, ORO526H, is Colin Robbin's Goodwood green starmist MK II. Colin bought this car from me in 1983 when we were Vauxhall prototype engineering apprentices together at the Luton factory.
I have to say it was a bit of wreck when I sold it to Colin for £120 all those years ago! To my eternal shame I scrapped this car's original 1975cc engine replacing it with a 2279cc from a Sunspot yellow FE VX 4/90 then languishing in a Luton scrapyard. You have to remember in 1983 these cars were just old bangers. Unfortunately when rebuilding that engine I was wrongly supplied with 20 thou oversize crankshaft bearings which of course immediately destroyed the unground crank! We were young!
It was at that point in the miserable February of 83 that I gave up and sold ORO526H with a very noisy 2.3 engine and holes in the floor to Colin for just a few pounds. Colin subsequently re-shelled it and painstakingly rebuilt it over the next twenty years into the immaculate example you see here.
Colin then used the original shell from ORO526H as purchased from me to build his fantastic race replica Viva GT. Seen here at Billing last year with my current Viva GT, PRP493G.