The Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am Is A Tiny Muscle Car With A Z28 Heart
This brilliantly mad, Vauxhall-based homologation special had enough pace to worry Ferraris of its day
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Been looking for a Vauxhall Magnum shell to do this one 😁
More super saloon porn Trevor..............you ought to be ashamed of yourself !!??!!
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I think it was Vivas, Firenzas and Magnums that came in all body types, and they also re-popped the Firenza name later as well, just to confuse the issue. Not to mention the export models that had other names too.I need to see evidence of a Vauxhall Firenza in any other body style than coupe. Or did you mean Magnums and Vivas
came in all body flavours, Kit?
Very enlightening Kit. I never knew about the Viva E.Well, I know SOME of my Vauxhalls, but it's a very confusing area of the company's history with so many variants being built.
VM planned to build at least 500 Droop Snoots, but in the end only made 204 of them, but the body shell parts had already been ordered and pressed. The ones left over became the Viva Es, a low priced, rather basic version, somewhat oddly.
Luckily (for me anyway...) they'd also already ordered the fibreglass nose cones and headlamp assemblies, and they ended up on the Sport Hatches.
I can understand why they didn't use the 5 speed ZF gearboxes on the Sport Hatches, it was hardly smooth even when warmed up, but I wonder why they didn't fit the HPF engines. Most of the parts must have been ordered by then, so where did they go?
I fitted my car with a Blydenstein 3H head and exhaust manifold, which produced more poke than the HPF engine, and I found it a superb long distance load carrier, even on German autobahns, I drove it to Berlin 3-4 times in its life.
Glad you like it, that's the club I started in 1980, and I'm the President there now.Droop Snoot Group - The Cars - HPF - Firenza - Magnum - Sportshatch - Chevette HS
Find out about the DSG cars - Firenza and HPF, Sports Hatch, Chevette HS and HSR, Magnum, Viva, GT and Can Am, and the famous Slant Four enginewww.droopsnoot.co.uk
This is a pretty good breakdown.