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Picked this up today and i'm over the moon with it. This means I now have 2 mistral grey cav gsi's on the drive  Plans for the car, lower it to death, black banded steels, and take the funky spoiler off and keep it clean and subtle. Hope you like it    |
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Last Edit: Jul 4, 2012 22:30:05 GMT by dan90
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Had one same age and same colour........wished i'd kept it  Looks nice, any rot in the usual spots? |
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dan90
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Had one same age and same colour........wished i'd kept it Looks nice, any rot in the usual spots? 1 tiny bit on one of the rear inner arches but other than that its solid unlike the other one here |
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Saw one of these getting hacked to pieces in the breakers yard today, looked quite solid too. They seem to have aged well IMHO.
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dan90
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Saw one of these getting hacked to pieces in the breakers yard today, looked quite solid too. They seem to have aged well IMHO. seems to be the way they are all going these days  |
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I secretly love these far too much, look forward to seeing it develop |
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I secretly love these far too much, look forward to seeing it develop Me too, Vauxhall went through an epic phase of cars at that time, GSi3000 GSi2000 Senator24v true road warriors |
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Nov 12, 2011 19:38:59 GMT
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Pripr to the GSi turbo this was the ultimate sales reps car - showed you were top of the tree - duuno how a local guy managed to buy a brand new one- and then topped if off later with a brand new M reg GSI turbo
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Sorry not updated for a while folks, I have been mega busy. Anyway first thing I sorted was to tidy the huge mess of wires out behind the dash, it had 3 alarms fitted that were messing about with each other and all the stereo wires were fudged so I fixed it all to the way it should be  after that I fitted 60mm lowering springs on the rear (fronts being done tomorrow as I have struggled to borrow any clamps) and I fitted a powerflow exhaust as the one that came with it was garbage!! Next off I sorted the bootlid out with the proper GSI spoiler  Left it like that for a bit and then decided to black her eyes before:  after:  Again did nothing for a bit, just kept her tidy. One sunny weekend I decided to tidy the inner arches up, wheels and liners off, scrubbed the arches and liners and treated her to fresh underseal   Think this brush had been in there a while  and the guy next door was telling me I was mad for cleaning something nobody see's but I don't care, if I know it's filthy then I know others will see it so  Had the black 18's on the car when I got it but I have never been a fan of big wheels even though it did look nice, so today I picked up some original slabs with exellent tyres for a very good deal indeed and fitted them in the torrential downpour of rain earlier, again the folks on the street looking at me like a mad man cleaning and fitting wheels in my vest haha, it needed doing. So all that is left this week is to fit my springs to the front tomorrow, give her a wash and quick hoover then I will take some more pics. Oh also fitted a red plug cover and tidied my engine bay a little SO! Here is how she stands at the minute, hope you enjoy the update (engine bay before with green L       Thanks for looking |
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looks like agood clean gsi that.
very hard to find now.
i've a few cavaliers myself...i love them.
i'll maybe have to get a project thread up myself....if i ever get a chance to get working at any of them fs
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dan90
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Cheers buddy, it is one of the cleanest I've seen tbh, still on original arches and sills and the underside is solid too.
Get a thread started mate, I always have interest in cav projects
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Looks miles better on the original slabs! Rare car these days
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dan90
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Looks miles better on the original slabs! Rare car these days Totally agree mate and it handles and feels so much better too  |
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Apr 10, 2012 14:04:00 GMT
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That looks the dogs ;D There's a couple of base models near me and I was looking at one just the other day thinking how nice they look with the boot. Doub't I'll ever have one, but they do look good, and your's looks a lot better than most for sure. Nice work mate  |
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Apr 10, 2012 14:09:49 GMT
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Thats looks really clean, good job.
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dan90
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Apr 10, 2012 14:25:49 GMT
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Cheers guys, its taken a lot of bitting and bobbing to make it how i wanted it which is standard but with subtle mods. Once the front is lowered I will be totally happy with it |
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Apr 10, 2012 14:36:00 GMT
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loved how clean this was when i saw it - and the gsi slabs do look a lot smarter, nicely done.
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dan90
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Apr 10, 2012 14:37:32 GMT
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loved how clean this was when I saw it - and the gsi slabs do look a lot smarter, nicely done. cheers buddy, any progress on the Capri? |
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Apr 17, 2012 13:15:35 GMT
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So today I got my front end down 60mm so thought I would do a quick update  |
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