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if you want to do thumbnails that are clickable for the full size image.... follow that till you get it! http://www.mk2cav.com/cgi-bin/smf/index.php?topic=1999.0

what a great looking ascii! Welcome to the site, I hope you will repair the car, and keep us regularly up to date with your progress! Mobile photo's are not that bad, they clean up quite wel.... so does your bumper! before after

hello! ;D doing anything in novermber LOL...

hmmmn i could help with this, but would both show elsewhere, or would we get to put one on display? Im thinking SR = NEC or similar!!! ;D

gotta say that bodykit has got better looking every year though ;D

Is it a Cavalier or something else though? If you dont say its a Heavier SRi130 with a bodykit, suspension & interior... Of course if Irmscher had gone with what tickfod had recomnded for the car it could have been mentally different....

special Calibre Lettres! ;D

Things kind of... fell apart for them I think. And thats putting it politely. In about 2002 I began trying to talk to them about diversifying to include other MK2's to try to keep numbers strong, or at least to let me help them find calibres for them. They wernt really that interested (didnt reply), and perhaps as a result the cars they put on show in 2002 were apart from a couple - completely rotten, arches hanging out etc..etc.. The club appeared to be sinking on the basis of the dwindling number of calibres, and the condition of the reminaing ones (their cars were always tidy though apart from a hanging work in progress they took to the first ever PVS show!) Still I tried to help but they kinda started to blank me when they found out I ran a website for the mk2cav, it was after billing 2002 I decided Id try to work along side he convertible club and the calibre register to build numbers, and gain entry to the vboa. i wont say which two clubs originally tried to block our successful entry to the vboa, however I will say that mandy sanderson was the club secretary for the vboa at the time. With all the club politics of the time, they really didnt care about al mk2's and were determined to belive the calibre was something greater than the sum of its parts (which may be) but that other mk2s were not. The Calibre is a fantastic mk2 variant, of which there were more than any other car of its time, but saying a london special (like the Astra GTE Champion) was not an Astra , or wasnt a Cavalier meant the club would evolve or die as numbers dried up. Unfortunately it did the latter. However, in 02 from the ashes a small group of people created http://www.clubirmscher.wanadoo.co.uk/ from the ashes allowing modified vauxhalls with irmscher bits in. We actuallly talk to these chaps now and things are all a lot more friendly between us the convertible club and we certainly get on very well with the VBOA, and to my knowledge we have the only up to date (soon to be online) Calibre & Cavalier mk2 database... If your looking for a particular car, pm john (has pic of mk2 engine in his avatar) he kindly keeps the database up to date for us. Hope this helps, and gives you a bit of history of the situation!

hi mark! Sounds like your doing the right thing dragging him from the dark ages! As Daz says, welcome to teh site, and if you need any help with posting up pictures or navigating the website just let me know.

your forgetting the famous term... " crash to bits "

i was talking about Andy's LXi... but if you take out the 200/400 and put in an 800 unit youll get two uhf channels...

if you want new sounds but the classic look get a cigarette Usb stick MP3, Line in player, so you are free to hook up any device with a headphone jack you wish to it, or any memory stick full of mp3 tunes, it braodcasts them over FM to your radio... no need for heavy multichangers!

Reviews at the time said " could barely keep abreast of motorway traffic " might have been Eric Dymock in the Vauxhall Files, im sure dougie will know - but they defo were the slowest. A diesel estate would make the allready nippy 1600 8v look like a spaceship! For all I know, there have been a couple for sale over the past few years, but none are in the club... Dazzy are there any you know of on the members list?

oh yes, and the brochures are in the image galleries... ;D nice parchment one in there... First production diesel GM did with glow plugs... needed a turbo tho at 54 brake! They might be in the old members area we are yet to resurrect... will find out!

imagine they made only 500 VXr astra's then add 20 years to them, you'll be down to 50 of them too with all their engines in corsa's! :-X

Nice to have you aboard, the club is young and growing strongly, if your interested in getting involved with teh club, join up and come along to Billing this year, for a real taste! ;D

well at least there are a few of your guys around, can someone help lou out then? breasts or otherwise!? ;D

sounds like an ideal mk2 cav owner! Ok i can think of a couple ppl that might be able to help you. Paul young has a yard and Im sure he'd be up for helping you. is the car so bad its not a runner?

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contact mark about a hood - but it pays to be a member! Contact chutney about the best suspension for a mk2 - he can get it for you too. Hope this helps, hope you'll be joining and showing with us! Welcome aboard!

mint it up and you could have a show car there! and no there are no other cavs that spec and condition in that form and milage. The closet thing was in bristol last year - mid spec will end up being the rarest as no-one saves them yet... mind you I said the same thing about early spec comming back into fashion about 5 years ago!

how clean is that! gorgeous!

I work in Bristol mate, and I know Jason, Abo, Paul young and more that may be up for a meet sometime soon...

I remember B10HOt but I forget who owned it!

snetterton? Cool! Make surey ou get plenty of pictures (and video!!) and start your own journal for the car, as well as posting up the work you don on her on the featured thread!! Welcome aboard mate!