My Mk1 Cavalier.

[sutty2006]

Blimey a 2 door mk1. That is rare. Most of them got turned into 400 replicas. Great to see it still in standard form.! 

[danthecapriman]

That is a lovely car! The colours great and suits it well too. Can’t be many 2 doors around either?

[Cavboy80]

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.

[Richard_FM]

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.

[Tamworthbay]

What a car! Best car on here for a while imho. I cannot have seen one of those in twenty years at least.

[Talbot]

On 7/2/2020 at 6:54 PM, Cavboy80 said:

Yesterday i taxed it

Exempt now shirley?

[Tamworthbay]

1 hour ago, Talbot said:

Exempt now shirley?

You still have to go through the process though.

[Gazebo]

Lovely,

My Dad had one - very bad scanned pic attached. Not sure what model.  One of his cars I never drove sadly.

 

[paulplom]

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.

[Cavboy80]

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. 

[Bmwdumptruck]

Cavboy80, where have you gone?  Fanatastic looking Cav.   
 

My first job out of school was at a Talbot Peugeot dealer in Dunstable in the bodyshop.   The chap I worked alongside bought a write off 2 door 1.3.  Thought he was crazy at the time, couldn’t see the point of repairing such a basic model.   But he did the repairs with mostly second hand parts and then arranged a day where the workshop allowed him to respray it in their sprayboot after hours.  I stayed to help him.  Lots of dark metalic blue went on, followed by at least double the usual amount of laquer.  When he eventually finished it and started driving to work in it it looked stunning with almost Rolls Royce paint quality.  No idea how long he had it as I got laid off the week Maggy announced her Yops scheme.  The garage dumped the 3 of us they’d taken on in June and replaced us with 3 free lads the following June.  No other jobs about so I ended up plumbing with my arsehole uncle.  
 

Oh and yes, these are way better than the cortina of the day😏