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Postby tooSavvy » Fri May 04, 2012 8:19 pm

:shock: .... well, you don't see one of THOSE everyday...Chevette 'fullfat' HSE

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A66, heading West, today around 12noon.

Period Shot.
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This guy has acetate windows, with the sliding section.....eg:-
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& roll hoop!

I travelled along behind for a while.... just 'soaking up' the glory that is.. a big carbed, non ECU, fatar$ed chubba chubba BroomBroom...exhaust vapours.

Dunno about yous... I felt born again :wink:

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Postby Renrut » Fri May 04, 2012 8:32 pm

Rare indeed. I haven't seen a Chevette of any kind out in the wild since one of my secondry school teachers had a boggo one in poo brown. That was quite some time ago. She was a fit teacher :think:
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Postby hititwithanhammer » Fri May 04, 2012 8:37 pm

I'm feelin a twitch that's normally there when I imagine Cheryl Cole and Holly Willoughby oilin up ready for me in the bedroom
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Postby mjslonergan » Sat May 05, 2012 10:03 am

The HSR was slightly longer in the wheelbase, than your standard Chevette, for rallying purposes, and they were always one of my favourite Rally cars, well spotted :)
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Postby Renrut » Fri May 25, 2012 9:13 pm

I don't have a photo but I saw something today on the M62 that astounded me - a mk1 Honda Insight!

It was in that lime green and was tiny but looked so cool at the same time! I got home and couldn't even find one on autotrader/ebay, the only one I found for sale was this one:

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/3855520.htm
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