Modified Vauxhall Corsa C 2010-07-22

Make: Vauxhall
Model: Corsa C

Richard Walton's modified Vauxhall Corsa C

Wasting money on bad decisions is a mug’s game, so when you choose to spend your hard earned cash modifying your car, you need to make sure you spend it wisely. Richard Walton is proper guilty of that – his careful planning and spending the cash where it really matters has left him with this very cool modified Vauxhall Corsa C, and all for a smidge under five large.

“It really was all in the planning,” explains rich, who’s owned the 1.0 Corsa for over two years now. After carefully selecting parts that would work best for the car, it was only the wheels that weren’t nailed first time around.

Now on his fourth wheel design, Rich sold each older set to raise funds for the next one, right up until the recent purchase of Schmidt Modern Lines. After trading in the tired old ATS cups, the new wheels look right at home on the car, lowered just enough on FK coilovers to look pretty. What really pulls it together for the look, though, is the bodywork.

Being a silver base colour to start with, it was only ever going to take a few touches here and there for the car to look classy and elegant. So to get things moving, Rich started his crafty work on the front end. A new Steinmetz grille was the first mod on the scene, before the bumper was relived of its fogs, bump strip and plate recess, and got repainted. At the same time, the side and rear strips were removed and the handles colour-coded before the tailgate was smoothed of its lock and wiper arm. This gave the car a very modern look and fresh vibe, which rich has improved upon with a black vinyl wrap on the roof and filler cap.

The inside is where rich had the most trouble deciding what to do. Having only a certain budget left for a string of mods, he took the car to his local interior specialist, which happened to be an FC regular – Luke Massy of Plush Automotive. Their discussions with Luke ended in a ‘seats out’ rear-build scenario. The false floor was made up, leaving a spare wheel/subwoofer tub ready to be trimmed in rich’s desired colour. While at first Rich decided on orange as the colour of choice, his last minute decision to go green couldn’t have been better, as the colour scheme looks very clean and original. A Momo 280mm Team steering wheel was the final touch.

For now, rich is happy with the car and even happier that he built it on a tight budget without skimping where it counts.

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