300kwv6 wrote:vlad01 wrote:sure wasn't, apparently there was only 11,500 VP vacationers made in total and blue was the least made from them.
I seen a hand full of white, 2 green ones and yours is the first blue one I seen since the 6 years I owned mine.
here is mine taken last year, looks a lot worse now. I use it for work and do 50-60k a year on average.
Looks good, can't say I've seen other blue ones either. I like the fact it has cruise control and front power windows. Did you loose the A/C?
yes, after I rattled out the old engine in the first 20k of owning it ( never changes old brands, stick to a good one though out the engines life), I scored an engine for 200 bucks that sat in a shed for 11-12 years with 80-90,000km on it, owner seem to think it was 89,000 which it most certainly was true
while I was doing the engine swap and T5 conversion as well as tail shaft and brakes and suspension and steering and fuel system rebuild and changing the whole dash over (lol) I ditched the AC as it was long dead and the compressor clutch pulley bearing was rattly and the nut on the front was always coming loose. It was dead weight anyway.
I never owned a car not any one in my family that the AC worked, until now. my VP executive one owner project car, it still works
Plan to keep it like that with the ecotec conversion.
the drivers side automatic electric window is a real pita, just decides to open fully when I only want to open a crack which is 90% of the time. I have to open and close it in sequence to open it just a little.
the cruise control seems to have a bug, turn it off while its still engaged and it wont work again until you "reset" the car, tun the ignition off then on again. It all works but its not the greatest. I like window winders, but the cruise is very useful. I made an photo interrupter circuit on the clutch tied into the cruise control panel so it disengages and reengages the cruse if I need to change gears going up or down hills but in hindsight it would of been better to wired that to the cruse stop switch coz sometime it reengaged when pulling up to a intersection going full throttle in 2nd gear lmao.
the best thing that come out of that is the cruse prevented overrun down hills since there is a direct drive via the manual. going up over a steep hill and then back down using nothing but cruise control it only varied by 2km/h
