RE: One-of-six Vauxhall Chevette HSR for sale

[usualdog]

s m said:

usualdog said:

s m said:

thegreenhell said:

Big arches, big carbs and tartan trim - what's not to like (apart from the price)?

Doesn’t seem too bad for a roadgoing Group B car ……. although I was never tempted when they were just a few K in the mid 80s and could have stretched to one

It's Group 4 not Group B

Well it was both really

My bad. Every day's a school day!

[KingGary]

I bet that’s such a laugh to hoon around in.

[shtu]

Matt_T said:

R8 in metallic brown with orange interior.

Ooh, I dunno. Right amount of red wine and that would seem like a good idea - callback to the 70s supercar classics, etc.

The hangover would be epic, for so many reasons.

[I would rather be sailing]

The only thing wrong with that is the colour. In silver with DTV logos it could happily sit in my dream garage alongside a Bjorn Waldergard 1979 Monte spec Escort and a 1080 Sunbeam Lotus. If pushed I could find space for a Pond spec TR8. Heaven

[I would rather be sailing]

Missed off the 1973 Alpine A110.

[Earl of Petrol]

I’d be more Sunbeam Lotus myself but this is a great rarity which will float the boat of plenty of a certain age.
£60k is hefty but I always think if you can own it for a while then recover your money then it’s ok.

[GTRene]

>it’s commonly accepted that fewer than 40 evolutions of the Chevette HS were made, with one estimate as low as 33. <

if its real and that rare with some rally back ground and so on a special, then 60k is not bad once someone wants to collect and only a few around.

would I pay that for such as a driver not collector?

no, then it would be worth say 25-30 to me for such knowing it was also rare and so on.

[Mr Tidy]

It's an amazing car, although I'd prefer Silver - never have liked black cars!

For such a rare car it doesn't seem stupidly expensive compared to RS Escort prices, so I suppose to the right person maybe it's worth it? But I'm not that person.

[droopsnoot]

I wish the seller would spell Gerry Johnstone's name correctly.

[ess]

Drews of Brighouse
Selling Vauxhalls since 1910. Folded about 10 years ago IIRC.

Definitely better in silver.
Race variant from Eifel a few years back.

S

[J4CKO]

AceRockatansky said:

Will we all look back one day and think, I saw one for £60k, wish I bought it.

Like when I could have bought a 22B.

I think these will be at their peak really, very rare but anyone born after 1980 probably wont have any memories of them, unless they are into historic rallying and stuff.

Anyone who had or aspired to one in period will be getting on a bit, its like a lot of the pre/early post war stuff has softened value wise as those who have any connection with them are either no longer with us or very elderly and this will start happening with cars like this, there isnt a constant trajectory upwards.

If its worth 60 grand now, thats taken a long time to get to and its the pinnacle of that model the most rare version, plus it doesnt have the familiarity of RS Escorts, wasnt in the F and F films for example.

[Geoffcapes]

I’m guessing this is one of the other 5.
Spotted this a couple of years ago in Telford Services of all places.

[swindonredtop]

Geoffcapes said:

I’m guessing this is one of the other 5.
Spotted this a couple of years ago in Telford Services of all places.

That looks absolutely lovely, colour looks ace. I might be wrong but looking at the seats, and the headlight style relative to the reg no. I think that might be a replica rather than a genuine HSR. I think an S reg Chevette would have had the earlier sunken headlights originally.

[WPA]

I think I would prefer silver also seems strong money but nostalgia is not cheap these days.

[ted 191]

I had one back in the day, looked to buy it back a few years ago but it’s been butchered !



There were about 40 built, I think the 4/6 must be black cars.

[droopsnoot]

Geoffcapes said:

I’m guessing this is one of the other 5.

That's a HS that has been fitted with a HSR kit, very well by the look of it. I think I've seen the car close up, and it's very tidy.

The 34 refers to the full HSR production, the 6 refers to how many were black.

[filski666]

Who did the restoration? Looking for suitable places to help out with mine...

[thegreenhell]

ess said:

Drews of Brighouse
Selling Vauxhalls since 1910. Folded about 10 years ago IIRC.

Definitely better in silver.
Race variant from Eifel a few years back.

S

Is that one of the early cars that used a Lotus head on the Vauxhall block, or a later conversion?

[Trophy200]

I used to own this £60K car back in the late eighties.

I would never describe it as black. It was a muddy brown colour, possibly a poor metallic, but it was definitely an original HSR and I didn't find any evidence of a repaint.

Trophy200

[smilo996]

not heard that name in many years: Pentti Airikkala.
Clearly needs a bit of TLC and a polish. Seems step but it is rare.
150bhp with for example, the Yaris GR putting out 257bhp with a 1.6, that figure seems very quaint.