My life in cars - now with added Vauxhall!

[junkyarddog]

30 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Yes it could

 

Waterford County reg.

[mk2_craig]

How the fuck did that happen .  Judging by the other cars in the photo, that Escort can't have been more than about a dozen years old. 

[trigger]

As alluded to in the News 24 thread I agreed to buy a MK2 Cavalier of a mate, he bought it a couple of years ago from auction to use on his YouTube channel but it took another direction and just sat in his barn unused instead, after having to move it last week to get some cars out for the NEC show and finding the handbrake had welded on he agreed to let me buy it to do something with... So yesterday it was loaded up

And today he dropped it round.

Yep, it's a early 1982 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6L saloon with an amazing 16000 miles from new on it.

I don't know much about it's history unfortunately, I know a garage in Weston Super Mare was selling it 10 years ago for £4995 and then a film company bought it for a true crime documentary and had it wrapped black

Thankfully that's been taken off with no real damage, it's then sat around for ages since so now needs a bloody good clean and some recommissing work

look at the condition of the door shuts, the underside is like new still too

It even had it's original Good Year tyres still on it although they'll have to get binned for new rubber 

So not a bad project, the rad fan motor has burnt out so finding a replacement will be fun and the brakes are really spongy but nothing to worry me.

I'm booked in for the Festival of the unexceptional so hopefully it will be there!

[RoadworkUK]

Entirely sensational. As ever. Your car CV is frighteningly excellent.

[trigger]

Ha! That's debatable but as someone else mentioned I do have the knack of finding excellent examples of shit cars! 🤣

[Matty]

7 minutes ago, trigger said:

Ha! That's debatable but as someone else mentioned I do have the knack of finding excellent examples of shit cars! 🤣

Bloody hell Trigger compared to most of the shit sold now that cav is the perfect family daily!

[dollywobbler]

Ah I was admiring that earlier this year. What a beauty. Also a dead ringer for the first car I ever lap-drove around a caravan site.