Old cars in slide collection scanning

[Robert Wiles]

Nissan Sunny, Fiesta, Astra, Metro, Cavalier and a Fiesta van in the background.

 

[mrscalex]

I fancied it might be a Metro van?

 

[Robert Wiles]

I fancied it might be a Metro van?

Yep. Had a closer look, it's a Metro van. Rare at the time, probably extinct now.

 

[Synclare]

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[mrscalex]

Still have a Metro and Mk11 Cavalier, Cavalier now at 22,000 miles whilst the Metro has just 1,811 on it !!
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Needs a good wash though.

Love it

 

[t-tony]

Makes you grateful for progress doesn't it? I had a 1600 Mk.2 Cabbage Ear, Shirl had a MK1 Metro Turbo (not the weedy works version either), never had the pleasure of owning any of the other 3 but have been guilty of selling these fine cars.

Tony.

 

[Nodzed]

Is that a Marina estate or a ford escort estate being overtaken by the Jag too.

Ford Corsair estate most definitely

 

[Grumps]

Well nothing much exciting at all about that lot. It will go back onto ebay now to recover some cash and hopefully someone else will find something of interest to them. But I quite like this one. Very 80s/early 90s. A nice slice of what I think of when I remember cars from that time.

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I believe the Cavalier is an SRI with those wheels and the door bottoms being black. I didn't have an SRI however I did have the 2.0 CDi.

 

[Sean d]

Agree the cavalier is an SRI, bottom half was anhtracite, my first propper car, I had the 130, XR3s couldn't live with it over 60mph

 

[Jack Ratt]

Still have a Metro and Mk11 Cavalier, Cavalier now at 22,000 miles whilst the Metro has just 1,811 on it !!
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Needs a good wash though.

Never seen a Mk Eleven Cavalier, got any photo's ?

 

[mrscalex]

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[mrscalex]

Agree the cavalier is an SRI, bottom half was anhtracite, my first propper car, I had the 130, XR3s couldn't live with it over 60mph

Sean, XR3s and even XR3i s couldn't live with anything I had a 1990 XR3i from new (company car) and it was awful. The gearbox fell apart at 50k and I never used to even rag it. The injection system was awful, it had a lag when you pressed the throttle. It was finally sorted with uprated injectors by the RS specialist at the local Ford dealer and it was transformed then, until the gear box fell apart... Oh and the brakes totally failed when it was 2 weeks old - foot to the floor with a rapidy approaching queue of traffic. Lots of pumping of the pedal brought it back.