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Another car that is rarely seen anymore 71-73 Vauxhall Firenza


I drive by this car on the way to the cottage every weekend 

it's been sitting in the same spot for years - I can't remember when i last saw one - apparently from a sales standpoint they were fairly successful - about 12,500 sold over 3 years 

Anyway I will stop and knock on the property owners door one of these days and see if I can take a closer look 

the 2 door coupe is not a bad looking car

 

 

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When I was at trade school in the seventies on of the students in my class had a Firenza with a 327 and a powerglide. Apparently it wasnt hard to swap in the small block.

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Make a great classic rally car.



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My brother had one of these, a 72 4 door sedan in about 1977. It wasn't a bad looking or performing car, but it was an automatic that an aunt had had and I seem to recall it leaked trans fluid. I liked it's immediate predecessors, the larger 68-70 Vauxhall Victor and the smaller Viva, including the one year only (I beleive) 1970 Viva GT. You never see these cars anymore. 



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heres my 66 viva i thought everyone had a vauxhaul!



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It's too bad we couldn't have had this version here in Canada......

https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/chevrolet-firenza-can-am-south-africas-muscle-car/



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The subject car looks decent, It would be a great little project to recreate the Chevrolet Firenza Can Am 302 or even put in a small doscplacement V8 like a 283, 307 or 327 as mentioned above. 



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Didn't we have the Vauxhall "epidemic" [ Epic ]

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dualquadpete wrote:

Didn't we have the Vauxhall "epidemic" [ Epic ]

The Vauxhall Victor was sold at Chevrolet dealers and the Envoy Epic sold at Pontiac dealers. 

 



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As I recall the Victor was the larger car and was also sold in an Envoy version at Pontiac dealers. Likewise for the small Viva/Epic cars, Vauxhall/Envoy respectively.  



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Took the front fender off a brand new 1961 vauxhall when I was 8, it still had the skim coating they put on them for ocean shipping. The Vauxhall Victor was a nice little car. The Epic and Envoy were nice too, for English cars in Canada.

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Back in the 60's I used to ride my tricycle everywhere so I knew what was in everybody's driveway. Next block over were a black Vauxhall Viva & next door to it an identical white version as an Epic. The only visible difference was the tail lights, vertical ovals vs. horizontal with 3 bullets. As I recall the Epic & larger Epic Envoy were sold through Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealers, while the Vauxhall & Viva were sold at Pontiac-Buick-Cadillac.

Here's what I mean about the tail light differences (found these old 2008 pics):

Epic Envoy.jpg2265675_347c42436f.jpg

 

In '71 Chevy put their  face on the corporate Vega. It spelled the end of the Epic line in Canada, but Pontiac-Buick-Acadian (Acadian still around initially for '71) sold the restyled Vauxhall Viva line & called the entire line Firenza here. In Europe I think the Firenza was the coupe, the Vivas were 2 & 4-door sedans plus a 2-door wagon., As I recall there was a class-action against GM Canada over the Firenza in 1972 over workmanship & quality-control issues and they dropped them around May / June '72. The 1973 Astre was hastily & logically born of the Vega to fill the void from the hot potato named Firenza. It took GM a few decades before they tried that name here, but the Firenza name carried no baggage in the U.S. I thought they used the name before the 1982 J-car variant, maybe on a suspension-and-sticker version of the Starfire and the close of the 70's.



-- Edited by CdnGMfan on Friday 11th of September 2020 07:42:44 AM

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That's good to know, CdnGMfan. I didn't even realize that the Chevy has quite the history.

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