A few updates, good and bad news unfortunately.
Bad news first. The olympic blue 1.9 TZi has had a pretty much terminal front ender. It's my fathers car and was mechanically puuuuuurfect with a recently reco'd engine etc. We'll have to wait and see what he does with it. He bought the wreck back from the insurance company.
Good news now: Bought another Valver! It is a 1993 metal bonnet, no sunroof, australian delivered, DFW powered model.
Found it for sale on Aussiefrogs cheap, advertised with a ?broken cam belt, no compression, no spheres, and not run 3 years.
I've always wanted one of the metal bonnet/no sunroof valvers as these are they type that Peter McLeod raced at the Bathurst 12 hour successfully in the early 1990's.
To get it on the trailer we removed the bumpers, pumped up the tyres and used a tilt trailer with a winch.
First thing we noticed was that the car did have rear spheres and an accumulator, and when we got home we also found that the car had an intact cambelt and some compression!
Also found the head lamp lenses fell off in my hands when I went to remove them to get to the bumper..
This is where the car stands at present, it looks happy among its kinfolk.
