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Cant see the mods... more details...! (and pics...!)

Lookin terrible!!! (terrible being good...)

My crappy A4 scanner wont scan articles properly, sections the article off as it has a white background and thinks I'm only scanning a small portion of page... anyway heres cover, article is B&W, PM me addy and will photocopy for you at earliest convenience, worth a read. Also has pics of a prototype S1 with bugeye lamps and trick door handles...

Bwhahahahahaha how manys that? My Chevini (blk) prev belonged to one of the biggest A hole teachers from my past. Irrelevant I know, just greatest bens comment made me think of that...

Cuz never turned up today... does drive a V8 Commie tho, maybe he was @ home saving gas! Will letchu's know when I see him...

Im not hinkin bout valance for now... would prefer steel but fibreglass guards will do rather than nothin... I think if you wanted a complete fibreglass front youd need to weld the gemini under pinnings of the snout to bolt fibreglass to as well I would imagine unless you didnt care for bonnet release cable etc... Cuz gana have chat with his mate soon.

If you or any cunt reading this is keen on a set of fibreglass gem guards (price dependant of course...) let me know, the more we want the less they may be... So far gana throw a number of 5 sets at the dude and see what he says... Will be seeing my cousin to discuss further tomorrow.

years ago aye old man.... was advertised as LSD... since yous all told me how to test it the car has been jacked up on one side no wheels and cant be fecked doing anything with it... some day soon tho... need to pick your guys brains about getting master cylinder sleeved for bigger brakes too... got my S5 RX7 4 pots goin in the Green Chevini with Piazza rears... Lowerage yeah I will... not a huge priority tho @ mo with so many projects on the go... thinking I should find out the ultimate set up and get a bulk discount for 4-5 of them at once lol

Guards are 1st priority for me @ the mo... may go onto bonnets & snout if/when I get me a coupe/track car That certainly won't be anytime this year, possibly this decade!

they did u silly. goto germany b t w. dont put those bike lights on please! it looks sweet as is. needs gold turbos Haha, even if I do go ahead it will be a complete bolt on/off arrangement, won't be permanently fuct... does look sweet as is but finding it hard to get spare bonnet/guards for other projects... thinkin of gettin some fibreglass guards made...

Haha lowerage... maybe if I bang on some biccies (215s rub still, I hate scrapage) As for paint just gana re spray bomb in satin black for now, have too many cars to spend in real $$$ on it for now... Planning on doing the MK2 Chevini hopefully by end of year and sinking a few grand into it. Rebuilt G200, Twin Webers, 5speed, Piazza LSD (It fukn better be, was advertised as such when I got car...) Its the kermit green hatch pictured in the MK1 thread. Its ganna have later model gem fron mounted on and pro painted (rest of car painted in 2K paint, so will have front panels pro painted to suit...) The black bitch just gana have stock 1600 gem engine and 5 speed not rebuilt at this stage, just want it mobile. May well end up selling, although realy dont want to... Gaz, your guys 2 door sedan would be phat converted... in a way a shame to wreck a mint 2 door vette as they are pretty thin on the ground but meh, yours to do what you will! (be sick anyway!!) Fuel, they made a Kadett hatch, only avail in Europe tho, Opel Kadett C City... http://www.auto-rennsport-page.de/bilde ... 5/68_C.JPG Or did you mean u wish they made a Holden Version?! Kinda glad they didn't, NZ has the Vettes to make their own and all the OzGemini boys can do is dream!

Been thinking of changing the front of the car quite dramatically, mainly because I will most likely end up with a couple of variations (hatch/wag/coupe...) so it means that the car is different, more than the shape of head lites. This is what I'm conceptualising, levelling off cut out for headlites on bonnet and guards and running twin projector lamps, most likely from a motorbike. Feedback or opinions on this welcomed... the other reason is I wanna steal bonnet off the hatch for wagon convo I'm doing on a vette wagon, I have another bonnet with a rotten front edge that could be easily modded like the concept picture... just thought it'd look phat and different...

This is pretty much where its at... pulled tired engine out around last xmas, have sice had a 2nd daughter and been busy with business... its about time to carry on!! Plans are to install gem wagon diff (should fit straight in) along with std gem engine/5 speed. Alteration will need to be made on gear stick position and gearbox cross member to fit. I also want to re-spray bomb her satin black. The badly rusted drivers side guard has had half a chevette guard welded onto replace the rotted lower wing, also shaving the side indicators, (hoping Mr WOF man doesnt make me put them back...) and welding up radio antenae holes. Also wanting to fit a chevette bumper instead of the wider gem bumper to match rear bumper. Hoping to pay a mate to do most of this... we'll see, hoping about 5hundy cash plus materials should do it... mite be dreaming! Hopefully more progress pics won't be too far on the horizon!

As per above pics, we took the Chevini away on holiday to Bay of Islands, starter died on last day lol... that was Feb 08... also got a set of Cheviot Turbos off tard me, whacked the rubber off my rims on, eventually sold rims to an oldschool member to go on a hunter (via tard me) and also sold stud adaptors on tard me.

Despite no longer speaking with him I have to credit borgweiser with a lot of help with the mechanical early stages especially on this car. He was renting space in my barn, some of the pics in my project threads might have some of his toys in the background. I also have to credit him with giving me this grill off of a series 2 XJ6 Jag (i think...) It was a lower valance grill, I chopped the ends down and made a couple of brackets to space the OG mounting points from grill to car and voila! Only held on by 2 screws... its on the list of things to do....(finish mounting up... lol) Anyway reckon it looks way tougher than plastic fantastic gemmi grills... always good to have extra accessories anyhow, different looks to suit mood....

I ran the car bumperless for a while, quite liked the look... then a cop told me off and let me off with a warning (no licence plate) didnt wanna drill any new holes in front of car so later added the OG Gem bumper which happened to bolt into same mounting holes as the Chevette bumper...yippy! You may notice the rims arent as wide or the tyres as fat, the Rostyle rims that came with the car turned out to be Ford items with stud adaptors, rear rims slitely widened + 215s + stud adaptors = major scrapage, so a stock set of Vauxhall Rostyles were fitted until I could afford something more tasty...

Defending my driving... I was driving along within the speed limit along a usually quiet country road, I came to a corner and saw a late model hilux indicating to cross... long story short the dude shudv waitd and he went ahead turning across the road, I locked up and slid into a 4x4 sign post hitting the centre tween the home made split bumpers (which most of the GM-T boys hated...) if the bumper wasn't split damage wouldve been way worse. Car was still drivable but popped a lot of welds under nose cone, even bent the front x member. The GC resonsible for me crashing couldve just kept driving, not only did he stop, he offered to cover costs for the damage! Finding a decent vette nosecone was gana be a mish, and I just so happened to have sexyvettes parts gemini's face stashed in my barn... So I went to Bute Rd Panel n Paint for a quote and a week or so later she looked like this... Pic I took on camera phone of progress at panelbeaters... nose cone removed, they still need to carefully drill out all the spot welds taking whole front out. The excess steel on the gemini nose cut was removed in the same way... next time I saw it the car looked a little like this...

Then this happened... defineately over and out now... more tomorrow!

OK.... 10 views in 4minutes, will post some pics real quick to make it worthwhile... After a year or so of slowly doin bits and pieces, scoring a pale green vaux hatch, wrecked it for engine, tidied engine up and shoved it in the hole (after painting hole Matty B!!) Painted with top quality spray bombs! Loved the Chevy Orange engine enamel I had used in the engine bay so much that I thort fukk it and started going to town on the interior, as pictured gauge surround etc plus tops of inside of doors and B & C pillars. Sounds strage but looks pretty mean IMO. My lil helper... that pic dates this project... she may be about 3yrs old there... she just started school this term!

I can't beleive I havn't started a project thread for this car... have just spent past hour or so typing up one and adding tons of pictures... hit 'submit' and fuckin lost it! It was about then my wife got dejavu... same fuckn thing happened last time! O well, will just do it a bit at a time instead koz I wanna get ready to jump in bed and watch entourage... I purchased this car off Trade me site unseen from a chap in Porirua in September of 2006. From memory it was $1300-1500 or so incl the $400 odd the car transporter set me back. It wasn't a runner, I mainly wanted it for the Isuzu G161 engine and 5speed along with complete gasket set, New Redline Twin inlet mani, pair of preloved Webers with rebuild kits, New electronic ignition jobby, New Lukey Extractors, Freshly powder coated Rostyle rims with new rubber... and other stuff I can't think of. Anyhow added up to $2500 worth of new and used stuff which was intended for my main project, Mk2 Chevini (will start a thread for that later...) The shell was surplus to requirements, in fact I tried to give it away to more than one person as the shell was too good to wreck... This is what i found at the top of my driveway when I arrived home from work one sunny septembers day... And thats enough for one night... more tomorrow!! P.S: If you havn't seen this car its pretty different to most Chevettes in this country... well worth a look! Will note that it's currently sitting in barn awiting repower hopefully in next month or 3... given up taking the spare time to do it myself so hopefully its going out to someone more qualified as a homer type cashy arrangement... havn't finalised the negotiations but I'm hoping 5hundy will mostly cover it, and I already have all the parts to repower with Isuzu Gemmi drivetrain right to diff.... should make it haul way quicker than the 1256cc monster 4 banger it was sporting!

Above 2 pics are rat damage... needless to say the fuckers have been poisoned...

ohhhhhh they have lots of toys... thanx. Will dig mag out and scan it in near future... have seen it recently, its funny it says something in bold writing like manufacturers getting it right: Mazda: YES! Nissan: NO! Probably a good one to blow up for the shed wall...

Mint car man, good progress pics, keep em rolling! Your wing mirrors... where from and how much?! Look mean, btw I have a Feb 79 copy of Wheels magazine with a series 1 on the cover, could scan it off for you if your interested... Again wicked car being done properly good to see, gana be a weopon!

if the pipes are too short and you get the fumes you could go Bada boy bubby styles with a gas mask... lookin good btw... love all the choices etc cloor blah blah... cant wait to start playing with fast bits on one (or more) of mine, won't be doing it myself tho thats for sure... (want it done rite heheh)