sutty2006 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Blimey a 2 door mk1. That is rare. Most of them got turned into 400 replicas. Great to see it still in standard form.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 That is a lovely car! The colours great and suits it well too. Can’t be many 2 doors around either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavboy80 Posted July 4, 2020 Author Share Posted July 4, 2020 Thanks for the kind comments guys, yes the 2 door variant is a rare thing. According to the owners club (of which i'm member) this is one of 5 1600's left and only one 1300 is known to survive !! That's mad seeing as how many must have been churned out from Antwerp (apparently the Antwerp plant built the two door cars) factory. A few years ago i spoke to the original owner and he told me that the reason for buying the two door version over the much more common four door was that he couldn't justify the extra expense as the Cavalier would only be used by him and his wife so two doors were fine. When he had ordered the Cavalier he wanted the body colours of either Pale Blue or Pine Green, This though sat in the showroom at the Kings Lynn branch so was picked instead. Coprolalia, danthecapriman, Jenson Velcro and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 My Dad had a 4 door GL on a S reg in the same colour. I don't remember many 2 doors around even in the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 What a car! Best car on here for a while imho. I cannot have seen one of those in twenty years at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 On 7/2/2020 at 6:54 PM, Cavboy80 said: Yesterday i taxed it Exempt now shirley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Talbot said: Exempt now shirley? You still have to go through the process though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazebo Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 Lovely, My Dad had one - very bad scanned pic attached. Not sure what model. One of his cars I never drove sadly. Cavboy80, Tamworthbay, danthecapriman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 My 1st car was a silver two door 1.6. 1978 on an S iirc. This would have been around 1990. I put a massive dent in the passenger wing reversing it into a telegraph pole outside my parents. It was immaculate other than that with no rust. The clutch went on the cavalier so I swapped it about year later for a 1983 sunny with a rotted out boot floor. No boot at all just a massive hole. I kept the spare on the back seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavboy80 Posted July 5, 2020 Author Share Posted July 5, 2020 On 7/4/2020 at 8:10 PM, Talbot said: Exempt now shirley? Due to the unique way in which the DVLA have done this tax exemption thing my Cavalier will be eligible in January 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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