Mike

If there's a pair of p1 16V bumpers in good order, I would be interested

Chatham is about 50 miles from me....

Adrian

OK Gary - will give you a call when I know what we're doing Saturday - depends on sprog mainly, these days!

Go on mate - I'll have it prob the only 1 around Gatwick anyway lol

Only point I was trying to make ref the Astra GTEs is in response to Mark's post about the relative values of BX16V and Astra GTE back when they were only a few years old - that now it's highly unlikely you'll find many of either around, simply because for one reason or another they've fallen foul t...

G/H reg is the changover point - early p2 cars had identical management to late p1. Does of course depend on how long the car sat around before registration.....

I bet there's even less Astra GTEs of a similar age still around than there are BX 16Vs! Given their propensity for breaking out in chronic rust if living outdoors, plus the love of kit car builders/manufacturers for the 'red top' 2.0 16V motor, which must outstrip the 205 brigade for taking motors ...

think the late non-cat cars are 3 row ECU too?

I'd assume w/o is shorthand for 'without' myself

Tim

Get your head checked for cracks before bothering to rebuild - with old/no coolant in them the alloy tends to degrade over time. It's what did for our p1 16V head so ended up buying a complete re-furbed head instead as it had head gasket failure symptoms.

go for it shame to just leave him sitting on the trailer (which I presume is where he is?!)

Gary C wrote:Bertie has been a track car since 92 so is not licensed or SORN so is probably not included in the numbers.

Yep, agreed Gary - could Bertie be made road legal again, or too much hassle to bother?!

I suspect a fair few will be SORNed for half the year and licensed the other half (I know ours is!) so not necessarily a fair reflection, but you're right there's probably a core of 30-40 SORNed cars that are either scrap, or the paperwork just hasn't been done to declare the fact they've been broke...

I HAVE NUMBERS!! Had an e-mail from a contact with records by the above 2 model codes with details of those licensed and SORNed at the end of each quarter - the details on licensed goes back to q4 of 1994, the SORNed goes back to its introduction (IIRC) in q4 2007. It would appear that the 'BX 16V' ...

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OK, I've done some initial digging on this, based on data I hold. There are 2 'model codes' that relate to the 16V - #235 relates to the 'BX GTI 16V', #384 relates to 'BX 16V' These codes are issued in sequence to car manufacturers to identify a new trim level, so you get a few new BX trims, then so...