Droop Snoot Group

A selection of links to a variety of useful and (hopefully!) interesting websites. To save you scrolling through the page, you can jump to the section you're interested in by clicking on the titles below.

• Vauxhall and other car clubs
• DSG friendly suppliers and services
• Forums, photo galleries and other Internet resources
• Vauxhall owners' personal websites
• Competition and motorsport sites
• Overseas club and personal websites
• Reference and encyclopedia material
• Press and magazines

If you spot any other interesting sites, let us know! Email the DSG webmaster using the link on the right, or post the link on the forum.

Governing body and umbrella organisation for the many clubs representing GM's European product; club links, galleries, event listings and reports, historical articles and price guides for most of the major Vauxhall classics on this nicely laid out website.

Club for owners and enthusiasts of all Chevette variants

One of the newest clubs to the VBOA fold, mainly internet based but with a busy events programme and a fast growing membership.

Site for the long-established Viva club, with all the usual facilities and an active discussion forum.

Friendly, helpful and good value classic car insurance from the VBOA's National Rally partners - well worth a try if you're looking for insurance for your Snoot. 02870 344321 or see the website for contact information or an online quote.

Competition, tuning and track day parts suppliers run by DSG member Tim Jones. As well as components from manufacturers including Bilstein, Spax, AVO, Superflex, Magnecor and many more, Tim sources and manufactures his own parts. At the moment he's developing a range of historic rally parts for the Chevette, HS and HSR, and can also supply Viva, Magnum, and Firenza bits.

Tim's got a long-running thread on the DSG forum for enquiries about parts and to keep us informed about new products - click here to take a look.

Ex-Gulf DTV team mechanic Klaas van Vuure's latest venture, sports tuning and motorsport specialists Beek Autoracing in the Hague, Holland.

Beek Autoracing offer car preparation and overhaul, race support, rolling road tuning, electronic and ECU modifications and Emerald engine management, and tuning and motorsport parts made in-house and by well-known suppliers such as Koni, Tar-Ox, Brembo, Eibach and others.

There are some beautiful sports and saloon cars on the site, and perhaps you might catch a glimpse of Klaas' ex-Gulf DTV Magnum, in storage after a successful race career.

What started as the slightly mad idea of a Chevette photo gallery now probably has the biggest collection of T-car photo on the net, with hundreds of photos of Chevettes, Kadetts, Holden Geminis and Pontiac Acadians, links and an active and friendly discussion forum.

Site run by club member and HPF and Sportshatch owner Mike Edwards, with car history and information, show reports, stuff for sale, technical tips and more.

Erstwhile Droop Snoot Noos editor Graham Cox's page about the HP Firenza, and specifically his old one, GKD 797N. Plenty of historical and personal notes on a page that obviously takes its styling from the HPF's colour scheme.

Graham Cox's Flickr photo album.

Brief notes, with some good photos, about the original LIA 828, from a guy who used to own it in the late '70s to early '80s - including a couple of comments from Drew Hull.

This site belongs to a Norwegian IT guy and American car fan; for some reason among the brochures for Yank tanks he's got scans of a Firenza brochure from the early '70s.

Personal site about on of the 20 pre-production HP Firenzas which took part in the Thruxton 'selling plate' race in 1974.

Personal web page of a Firenza owner with a rather unusual looking 'droopsnoot' - and photos of Edmund's Firenza!

Katharine Manton's personal web page - '...a purely personal site devoted to a particular obsession...', with links and information on her and other Vauxhall cars and Billing in the late '90s!

Another personal web page, on Rick Liddell's Project Chevette, 'the transformation of a humble Vauxhall Chevette 1256 hatchback from old man's runabout to boy racer's urban projectile'

If my basic German (and Google's translation tools) are right, this article from German magazine Auto Bild is about the discovery, after decades in a garden shed, of a vehicle which is not only an early Opel but the original RAK 1 rocket car. After a 15 year restoration the car's been returned to the sporting two-seater spec it was discovered in.

Even if you don't read German, there's some great photos not only of the original RAK 1 and RAK 2, but the car as found and the beautifully restored result.

John and Jane Buckman's good looking and comprehensive New Zealand Classic Rally team website, with details of their Viva GT and ex-DTV Chevette HSR rally cars, news, results, photos and more.

Great site by Tina, Justine and Gregor Marshall about their dad, British motor racing legend and DTV stalwart Gerry Marshall; featuring Gerry's personal and professional history, photos, memories and more.

Gregor Marshall's personal site, with details of his Snoot, his racing adventures, photo gallery, his father, Gerry Marshall, the TVR Tina and more.

Sprawling website about Australian racer Peter Brock, in many ways the Antipodean equivalent of Gerry Marshall.

Ambitious personal website with entry lists, results, itineraries, stage results and points tables for pretty much every WRC / FIA Cup event from 1973, plus who's who, links, teams, stats and the rest. A brilliant resource for anyone researching past events, drivers or teams, or wanting to answer trivia quiz questions!

Finnish rally photo gallery, grouped by event. Mostly Finnish events from Nationals to the 1000 Lakes (Jyvaskylan Suurajot), but includes some old RAC rally shots.

Poke around and find the ex-DTV cars!

Home of Andy Frost's Red Victor, a street legal, 9.3 litre, 2000bhp twin turbo FD, with team history, Andy's blog, forthcoming events, vehicle specs and contacts to drag racing sites and the team sponsors.

Lurid yellow site for a pretty lurid Firenza drag car, powered by a 461 CID Methanol fuelled V8!

Massive site with some great photos and content; unfortunately much is in Swedish, but well worth a look anyway.

Rambling site of a Finnish custom car and Vauxhall nut, with photos and information on all his various projects and Vauxhalls and Bedfords in general, and links to other GM-related sites.

Norwegian fan Terje Berg's site for a new Norwegian Vauxhall club, formed in 2007 - great if you understand Norwegian, some good photos if you don't, and now with added English!

Another Norwegian club and site, run by DSG member Rolf Hansen and his colleagues; the club's been dormant for a while, and is just getting going again. More great photos and a 'rogues gallery' of members - pity Rolf's hiding behind his Snoot!

The ambitious encyclopedia project's page on the Magnum, featuring a nice moody Sportshatch photo. Don't agree with the article, or see things wrong? Think the article could do with more? Wikipedia's collaborative - you can add or modify it yourself...

The online encyclopedia strikes again, with a page on the Chevette.

Short encyclopedia page on longtime Vauxhall stager Pentti Airikkala.

...on Vauxhall themselves...

Fairly comprehensive online encyclopedia page on Gerry Marshall, with detail on his early and later career.

One of MSN's many top ten lists, featuring - among all the stuff with the driveshafts at the wrong end - the Manta GT/E and the Chevette HSR.