Korean Cavalier - Back in the barn!

[phil_lihp]

It took a surprisingly long time for someone on here to obtain an Espero but you've done it in style, that looks ace.

 

It needs a Nexia to keep it company, though.  I recommend this one, mostly as it seems to be the only one for sale.

 

http://www.getusedcar.net/detail/uk/oAoTYUTYcYYAUUrrTnnn/1997-Daewoo-Nexia-GLXi-Genuine-34-000-miles-9-months-MOT

 

[oldcars]

Thats class, love it. When you sell i will have 2, 11, 44, 72, 89, 104, 125, 458, 985..........

[Volksy]

For six months I looked after a Daewoo dealers over in NZ, we had an auto Espero in the same spec as yours on the forecourt, along with a Nexia in three, four and five door flavours. However in that entire period not one person came to look at any of the Daewoo range. The only interest was in the imported JDM spec cars we had on there used.
 

[lincolndanny]

Happy memories of these. My old boy bought a 3 year old one in Bright red in CDXI spec. If you bought a new one you could take it back a year later and they would change it for another brand new one????

 

Needless to say our 3 year old one had lots of moss in the window felts and only 4000 mile on the clock.....

[lincolndanny]

By the way, if you sell this drop me a pm...

[Bren]

I spoke to an espero owner many moons ago.

 

She said it was "pure luxury".

[EssDeeWon]

The class of '97

[phil_lihp]

I'll just leave this here...

 

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XZ4I53ko6g[/media]

[Austin-Rover]

A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon was spent giving the Espero a bloody good scrub! The results aren't too bad - it's pretty presentable. However, getting up close and personal with the back arches and the sills...I think come October it'll be coming off the road so that hopefully come 2016 there will still be something left to repair! Not that it shows in the photos, but that steeply raked front end is peppered with stone chips - from the nose cone right up to the windscreen wipers!

 

Daewoo Espero CDXi by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

 

Daewoo Espero CDXi by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

 

Daewoo Espero CDXi by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

 

Daewoo Espero CDXi by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

 

I had to include a picture of those rear indicators...two bulbs per side! WOW!

[eddyramrod]

 with a proper gear box), 015-07-22 17.24.43 by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

 

2015-07-22 17.24.59 by Richard Gelder, on Flickr

Blatantly not.  I R Disappoint!  Otherwise, well bought sir.

[Guest DavidG]

Well i didnt know there were so much love for Espero either...Ive got mine few years back and I do really like it...

Now it's all stock with 135 000 km...replaced a lot of things myself on 120.000 from the clutch to the brake tubes...

now working on double bi xenon project, trying to fit 2 x 2.5'' lenses in 1 headlight unit...dont laugh

if it all goes well next summer planning to upgrade suspension and chassis including doors arches etc

anticorossion layer underneath + to do something with noise and vibrations from the nose to the trunk

and as a final thought the motor will be swapped with c20let or b204 (still thinking which one) + gearbox and shafts

 

here some pics as it is now:

 

 

 

 

I placed a led strip in it, so now I have 2 bulbs + 3 leds for each side The red ones react to the brake pedal with more bright lights

[Guest DavidG]

And Austin-Rover I like the color of yours...I thought of polishing mine but I think that's a good thing to do AFTER all the repairs and not BEFORE By the way the one you own has double striings in it on the back side. There are 2 strings (thicker and thinner) one inside another. Last summer I removed the inner one, so my car sat down with the back side as you can see on the pictures. The bad thing is, when I have 3 people sitting in the back, the car is way too low on the back side, because the outer springs are weaker. They made those inner springs especially for that purpose, to support the extra weight with caravan-ridfing and such. The other day, when I was loaded quite fat, I touched the ground with the hook...Thanfully there were nothing damaged (scratch the surface of the road) but the feeling and the sound wasn't nice the other bad thing in this car is a thin and soft metal...

 

PS: toyota scarlet lol

[Austin-Rover]

A new month, and a slight re-arrange of the fleet. The Astra is now cleaned, SORN'd and tucked up under cover, and it is place, the Espero has hit the road for the summer! Woo!

 

A re-think of all the outstanding jobs for various cars means we'll not get the bodywork on this sorted this year. Instead, it'll be mechanical work. Top of that list is to replace the banana-shaped brake disks - quick-onset vibration white finger when coming down the sliproad at Jct24 on the M62 is...interesting! The deadline set is; cam-belt, service, brakes and to fit a tow-bar in time for the VBOA national rally at Billing on 16-17th July. Hopefully, it'll be there with a period 1995 ABI caravan in tow.

 

Pcture - today's car swap.

 

 

[lisbon_road]

I do like the Astra.  Great colour, original wheel trims and very clean.  Looks good.

[rml2345]

Love the Espero! I remember FATHA_RML looking at a CDX when they were much more current but settled on a Renault 25 Executive instead which turned out to be a bit fragile.

The interiors are properly plush.

[Austin-Rover]

The main idea behind getting the Espero out of storage this month was due to the MoT expiring during May. We also needed to size up exactly what we had bought. Now, the crusty rear arches and wafer-thin backs of the sills were fairly obvious - and it was not a total surprise to find these weren't up to MoT standard when my MoT tester was giving it a pre-test once-over. Far worse was the fact that we've lost on the "GM J-car bulkhead fracture" roulette. It's had the bracing pieces put in under the recall they did when the cars were current, but the bulkhead has still fractured, and someone has seen fit to fill the fracture with silicone sealant . So, back off to storage it goes whilst its fate is decided...

[andrew e]

There is an Espero a short walk from my house, always there when I drive by, NEVER there when I walk by with camera phone ready.

[fordperv]

I have always liked the espero, the guy across the road from me around 2000/2001 had a lovely condition grey one until a joyrider in a 1.6i ghia orion lost control, ended up in a tank slapper nearly ended up in my drive and pinballed into the espero, it made a right mess of it, the insurance wrote the poor espero off