BoXXerRACE Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Very Tidy... http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3823396.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiney_norman Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 That car has been bought and sold through these forums in the past. I'd love to buy it and put it back to standard, but £3k is massive money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoXXerRACE Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 Pistonheads is great for browsing, i've lost days to it... The Manta section is quite busy at the mo too: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/list.asp?s=520 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavtastic Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 (edited) I think this belonged to an old guy from Rochdale. Why did the next owner do this to this Car? Edited April 21, 2012 by Cavtastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiney_norman Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Cavtastic - that's exactly the debate that was had on here when it was advertised a couple of years ago. As I remember the original owner's son was on here talking about how devastated his Dad was with what happened to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason b Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Am I missing something? What is so horrible about the Cav in the first link. Ok so the bumpers (and one or two other little bits of trim) have been painted black (probably because the chrome was rusting through, as is par for the course on old cars), also it is wearing different wheels... but it comes with the rostyles so that would take 5mins to swap back. Recaro seats imho are more comfortable for long journeys so I could understand why you'd fit them. Again, Hardly a change to cry over. It's not like the seats are lurid pink... It is definitely too expensive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiney_norman Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Jason, if I remember right it was totally original and virtually mint. It would still be easy to put back to standard if someone wanted to though, with the exception of the bumpers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavtastic Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 The bumpers were mint on this car and yes they often are sprayed black to tidy them up but in this case it was to "Barry B" the car. The Chevette E had black bumpers and that looked aweful. The front seats were mint and will never be traced or replaced with another pair like the originals. The Rostyle wheels can go back on but I'm not sure about the stainless sill covers - have the rivets/lugs been ground off on the outer sills where the plastic clips attach. The wheel arch bright work can go back on if you can find some good ones. The ones that were originally fitted were again mint. The front seats were as new, and are far more comfortable than the Recaro seats now fitted, Recaro's look superb in a Manta but not a Cavalier. The car does look like it's had a quality respray though, in original form there were a few stone chips and a small traces of panel perforation on the tops and sides of the front wings. It's my fault this car has ended up looking this way I should of bought it when I was sat in it on the test drive. At £3000 it expensive for a Cavalier I would 1/2 the asking price and the owner might sell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason b Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Well, I'm just glad that cars like that get kept on the road really. Too many solid ones that have been scrapped. (or would have been scrapped - like the one I bought) The only things on that list that really take effort to track down are the mint seats and trim. Bumpers can easily be rechromed. You are right about the price, but it will probably get reduced and then someone can buy it and restore it. I am very much in the camp of enjoying your car in your own way. It is after all only metal. Granted I am sympathetic and certainly wouldn't have fitted a 6pot engine to a mint one and so bought one destined for the scrap yard to do up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fermanta Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Lucky it has so many doors or it would be about eight inches shorter by now too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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