My (Soon to arrive) Vauxhall Astra GTE

[gmonkey]

yeh id love to know about importing cars i plan on having an Opel GT or Opel ascona or Manta GTE (but i think ill get myn from the USA)

[fuzznucket]

I saw Ant0ny's car - really sweet machine.

That was my original plan, to take a Cielo and put all the bits on it to make a GTE, but recently the exchange rates went in our favour and was appealing to just buy the car. I'd love to see his car in the flesh though.

I'll chuck up a thread with the import information.

Thanks for the warm welcome.

[fuzznucket]

yeh id love to know about importing cars i plan on having an Opel GT or Opel ascona or Manta GTE (but i think ill get myn from the USA)

I think that it depends which State you live in. I looked at importing some from the USA, but the LHD laws in Aus seem to be astoundingly harsh, even for classics. It was so hard gettign quality info that I just gave up - especially as the conversions are sooo expensive.

[gmonkey]

WA, we dont have LHD laws at all pretty much, any car that is pre 1979 also has a lot more leanancy

[fuzznucket]

WA, we dont have LHD laws at all pretty much, any car that is pre 1979 also has a lot more leanancy

Oh thats sweet - its almost worth moving to WA just to take advantage of this.

For anyone else thats interested, I've made a thread with all the information that I could think of at http://www.opelaus.com/forums/showth...ralia&p=545098 for importing a car from the UK to Australia.

[fuzznucket]

wow - got my new number plate today from teh RTA - amazed no one had taken it.

I should be well easy to spot nowadays

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[fuzznucket]

A few more pics of the GTE
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[gmonkey]

that speedo is awesome!!! ahah also appears to be kph, which would be good

[TURBOGRINS]

that speedo is awesome!!! ahah also appears to be kph, which would be good

I believe the oldskool digidash were able to change from MPH to KPH with a button push - handy for travelling to Europe
(or just give your mates the idea that you traveliling 1.6 times faster than normal...), love these cars - top vented bonnet = sexy!

[dutchy]

COOL, my mate in Holland had an Opel Kadet GSI with that same speedo.