1975 Vauxhall Magnum Coupe

Oh And looking for a stand to join at the gathering too if anyone doesn't mind...

banded steels and lowered !

looks good buddy keep us posted

Thanks for the kind words guys

Hi Guz

Yes you probably did see this as I was lost in Nottingham looking for my mates house, which was supposed to be 25mins away from where I bought it lol

And then I drove back past Nottingham university campus to join the motorway in the late evening.
Was a lovely day for it, to get the wheels banded I need to get them refurbed first looking at JamesP's requirements, so that'll be £55 a wheel plus banding and tyres. so may just get them refurbed and keep as a nice set then find a another pair for banding.

Or I've seen some nice 15" minilites with black inserts that aren't too expensive.

Turbohpf, those are som nice wheels you have there, are they 15's?

Its nice to see one of these agian, I had a blue one in 1985 i was 18 at the time, Imagine an 18 year old insuring an 1800cc motor today! Yours looks in better nick than mine did.

Sorted out a few of the little niggles last night, boot now shuts a bit easier and the shut lines match.
I tweaked the bonnet too as the rear of bonnet looked a little low when shut.

Heater issue was down to a simple cable run locating bracket popping off, so now it's back in place and tightened up the control has it's full range of motion back.

The heater control unit also had no power going to the bulb that light's up the display wotsit, I remedied this perfectly first time round then blew the fuse trying to make a neater job of it. doh!

Rear wheel balancing issue is down to a rather bent alloy, it looks ok to look at but it would appear one of the spokes has taken a wallop, so am trying to sort something out with the guys I bought the car from, as these are South African wheels they aren't going to be easy to get hold of.
Never seen a set of wheels that have 3 PCD options on them before and done so from the factory, mind you none of the options are 101.6 lol so they've been done up using the 4x100 so they have to go anyway.

I got some rust issues under the bonnet nothing major by the looks of it, but that's to be expected. will need to save up before I get Retropower to sort it out. Hopefully have the car for a couple of years as is before i properly mess about with restoring it.

So important thing first is lowering once I've got me wheels, although my exhaust looks very low at the down pipe section is this normal?

I'll have to get a picture up tonight.

When I finally passed my test at 17 insurance was £200 for me back then that was an 1800.
I loved that car and this is why I've got this one now, I need to pay my respects or something.

I learned to drive my mums HC viva when I was 14, I was fortunate enough to be in the under 17 car club at castle combe.
In the morning I would be driving around the paddock learning parallel parking, three point turns and car maintenance.
The track was coned off with T junctions and roundabouts at this time opening up in the afternoon as a Motorway session, although as you can imagine everyone raced each other egged on by their Dad in my case lol.
There was an 13yr old girl in her dad's karmann ghia, it was immaculate until she hit the embankment coming down the pit entrance.

My funniest memory of this time was having a scrap with a fiat uno, he had me on the bends as my goodyear grand prix S's screamed for mercy whilst trying to cope with worn out suspension, then come the straights I'd have him back again, that went on for three laps .

I had that silver viva for a couple of months when my mum gave it to me for free, a whole two weeks after that I wrote it off .
The gearbox mount dropped or something as I went to go into 3rd and the gear stick just hit the trans tunnel, as I was leaving the ring road and entering a roundabout I just under steered into a lamp post, had I not panicked I might have actually thought of hitting the brakes rather than putting more turns into the steering wheel. I was so upset..

It was all FWD after that, nowhere near as much fun, was bouncing around between fiesta's, escort estate's patched with carpet tape over the holes to a £50 allegro cos I broke my suzuki GP125.

I cant remember how much the insurance was back then but I'm sure it wasnt 10 times the value of the car like these days. The Magnum survived my ham fisted attempts to crash it, I remember it swapping ends on a wet roundabout chasing my mates Capri. I sold it to a mate when i bought a MK2 Escort 1600 sport.

Looking at either a set of JBW Minilights (black spokes) or Rallye Specials, can't decide on which just yet.

Anyone know of these wheels and their quality?

Edit* Apparently a picture speaks a thousand words, so I've added these two :-)