One (shite) picture per post.

13,026 · January 12

Did they make 1.8 Marina TC's this early ?

13,026 · January 12

Late reg ex armed forces ?

13,026 · January 12

Datsun 140J maybe ?

13,026 · January 12

Now that's just grim..

10,088 · January 12

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

were all two door Cavaliers only fitted with the baby engine ?

No, you could also have a MK1 1600 two door Cavalier, but all two doors were the lowest trim level, L.

When the Mk2 was launched there was a short lived two door option that was only available as a 1300 base.

@Cavboy80 had (has?) a 1600 two door MK1 which was featured in this thread.

10,088 · January 12

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

Did they make 1.8 Marina TC's this early ?

Yes, the engine range at launch was 1.3, 1.8 and 1.8TC.

1971 Marina brochure

6,195 · January 12

On 03/01/2026 at 21:12, Yoss said:

That's AI. The bus on the left looks half way between an RM and an RT. The two buses in front of that just look completely random. Then the bus just in shot on the right looks like an RT but is too slab sided, more like an RM. RTs have a considerable tumblehome on the lower body side.

So then I started looking at the cars and lots of them just don't look quite right. The A55 bottom left has a kink in the fin at the base of the C pillar more akin to a Westminster.

I mean it's good, certainly a lot better than some of the attempts from even a couple of years ago but it's still not right.

It's reappeared as a night time shot with seasonal trimmings. I prefer real photos, not AI rendered stuff, clever though it may be.

Edit: As noticed by @morrisoxide a few posts back.

Edited January 12 by RayMK

5,831 · January 12

1 hour ago, Joey spud said:

I've only ever seen one in real life and it was 1256cc powered, were all two door Cavaliers only fitted with the baby engine ?

I believe so yes, It may have been to do with not wanting to steal sales of the 'sports hatch' or 'manta' which got the bigger engines

January 12

12 minutes ago, RayMK said:

It's reappeared as a night time shot with seasonal trimmings. I prefer real photos, not AI rendered stuff, clever though it may be.

Edit: As noticed by @morrisoxide a few posts back.

This night version seems to be a real photo, loads of reverse image search results of it from years before AI times. Seems like somebody along the line got an AI to make a daytime version without the christmas decorations and led to the mess of the other version, as it needed to fill in a lot of the gaps and messed up all the cars removing the motion blur this has to it

Here it's dated as uploaded in 2016, taken 1959 https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/regent-street-packed-with-traffic-as-new-christmas-lights-news-photo/592046780

10,088 · January 12

45 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

I believe so yes, It may have been to do with not wanting to steal sales of the 'sports hatch' or 'manta' which got the bigger engines

It was the trim level rather than the engine that avoided overlap between two door saloon and sports hatch. Both could be had with the 1600 engine but the two door was only available in L trim, sports hatch only in plusher trim levels.

1981 brochure