My Nan had a mk2 Astra in the 90s, she gave up driving and sold it on. She passed away in 2011 and I thought the car was long scrapped but by chance I saw it on a driveway in 2012, I knocked and told the guy the story and asked if he would consider selling, he took my number and to my shock he called me! I brought it back and ran it for 2 years until the floor pan gave way which brought it to an end. Wish she could have seen it back again. Great video Dougie, keep them coming. 👍👊
I had loads of those 1.7td izusus in astra's and cavaliers. Bought every cheap one i could out the yellow paper. Great engines. Great video. I'd be happy if this was a regular feature on your channel
Great to see the little Catalyst sticker in the rear quarter window of the Cavalier. That point in time when manufacturers would let you know what new kit was fitted to your car you couldn’t see.
Dougie your best video ever I was drooling at all the fab cars Vectra would be my pick !!!! Wish I could have seen all the cars it would have been a great trip down south listening to your favourite music !!!!
Those Corsa Bs were great cars. My mum owned a 1.4 5-door model in dark blue for over 17 years. It took me and my sister absolutely everywhere as children and it always started without fail, unless my mum managed to drain the battery from time to time, which did happen. The fact it started every time was a miracle considering my mum wasn't exactly up to date on servicing it.
Great video format, please do more of these. Once my bonus is paid in February I'll be on the market for 90s Vauxhall goodness. The Astra was the pick of the bunch for me. Couldn't help but notice - is that a fine collection of Sega Master games on your shelf? Great machine.
I live in Gillingham which is next door to Chatham and Rochester mate. Can confirm that top gear with the mk2 astra is actually in Gillingham near a village called Twydall.
Those 1.5td Corsas are amazing. I missed out on one on my doorstep for £150 MOT'ed just before COVID it still annoys me to this day, I ended up buying a diesel 205 MOT,ed for £225 so that has softened the blow a bit.
Watching this is like watching myself browsing the listings! In fact it was your videos during the first lockdown (when I discovered your channel) that kickstarted my love of Vauxhall’s again! I have both that vectra B and Astra mk3 in my watchlist/favourite lists. Also got my eye on an omega and frontera too lots of choice popping up at the moment but holding out for that senator 3.0 or Carlton…
My dad had a gold mk2 cav and also my uncle but slightly different shades ? My dads a 1.3 y reg and his brother a 1.6 a plate, I had a gold c reg manta berlinetta that I painted calibra yellow ! . The gold mk2 brings back a lot of memories as I crashed a blue 1 into the back of a metro which spread bit of fiberglass filter everywhere ! All from the metro.
Agree with Vectra B being great value. A couple of years ago my wife had a 2001 Vectra 1.8 LS auto (was her dads car) but it needed a new set of tyres and I wanted to upgrade the steel wheels for alloys. I snagged a 2001 SRI with 11 months MoT a 5 min drive from home that had immaculate alloys & new tyres and a decent but dirty half leather interior for £280. Car wasn't in the best overall condition as it had just under 150k on it so I swapped the wheels, interior, Irmscher back box and Irmscher grill onto the LS and punted the SRI back out for £250.
Awww I’d love that auto cavalier, I actually looked at that vectra on auto trader last week but alas no space or time for one at the mo. Back in the 90’s I had a mk3 Astra 1.4 ht LS seats were yuk but felt really well made, mates had cavalier Sri and a Belmont mk2 CD think it was a 1.8 on a G it was gorgeous, colleague had a diesel corsa and my boss had a cavalier 1.7 TD gls alas all long gone, happy days though.
Great video Dougie and defo have another episode of this, I think the cat likes the Vectra. I know of a man from the Furious Driving Channel that's just taken charge of a barn if you needed the Kent cars stored...
Really enjoyed this video Dougie... would love it of you made them a regular feature... dear me that cavalier auto is tempting me as a daily... keep up the great work 👍
Enjoyed this Dougie. Thank you for posting it. I do hope these all go to enthusiasts. Absolute bargain classics. I had a Mk4 Astra with the 1.7 Vauxhall Diesel engine. A real trooper. It had 220,000 miles on the clock when I scrapped it (sorry) as the tax was ridiculous at £160 for six months! Anyway, keep up the good work.
Loved watching this video and seeing how excited Dougie got. Especially when he realised how close together the two Astras were. That Mk3 Astra GLS is immaculate and I loved the look of the Corsa TDi too. I remember hearing about them.being flying machines and they came with the desirable power steering too. The car I really want from that era is a Corsa Flair in Caribic Blue. That's one of my favourite Vauxhall colours and I love its slight bonkers touches like the body coloured heater controls and speedo and crazy seat cloth
Great Video Dougie. I had a B Reg MK2 Astra 1.3 that was seriously quick. Bog standard would just about keep up with a Y Reg Golf 1.8 GTi albeit downhill. If the Golf missed a gear I would be up there with them, seriously underrated cars. But then I onwned a Factory Standard June 1988 20XE Astra GTE 16v, it was rolling roaded and was 173.5 BHP at the flywheel. Occording to my friend who was at Luton Training dor Service Technicians, the first 1200 cars produced power ranged between 168 BHP and 190BHP.(Never Publicised) My Brother Owned an F Reg 1988 GTE 16v 20XE Aubergine Model with a non Standard exhaust some years later that produced 174 BHP.. Keep up the Good Work Mate. Nick 👍
My second ever car was a white G reg 1.6L cavalier and it could shift for 1.6 really surprised me and that's when I fell in love with Vauxhalls lovely to drive slow aswell, had a bad oil leak but cost me 50quid the car 😁
The Cavalier is on my watch list as it's not far from me.......was hoping for a Diplomat Auto but this looks like a very tidy daily! Let see what happens!! Great feature Dougie, hope to see more!
I went from a primera gt to a mk3 astra 1.7td gls 82bhp with 142k on the clock, I loved it, lovely to drive, great on fuel ,I crashed the car I had after that and was secretly over the moon I still had the astra still parked up and could carry on driving it, I wanted a cav with the same but never did end up with one 😒
I loved the vectra had a few sri and gsi models last one i owned was a velvet green gsi which really popped in the sun, bought it from a branch manager in a vauxhall dealership down in Exeter so it was full of irmscher goodies such as silver coin tray and gearstick surround, I actually preferred the Sri half leathers over the recaros which came in the gsi. That mk2 astra, I considered going for that but I have no off road storage and my wife would probably introduce my manhood to the cheese grater if I went back down that road (she warned me last time I swapped a vectra for a mk2 astra gte with out even telling her, still her argument of having 2 young children and carseats to navigate in a 3 door hatch back still remain irrelevant to me to this day)
The Corsa B CDX auto interest me there is also a 1.4 Breeze auto on fleebay too (but their a distance away again), the autos easier due to health. Got to agree about the the tranny in the Cav, it's brilliant, got me many a places in snow no one would touch in a manual, could've my driving abitliy or just knowing how to use them and having the trust, terrible in the V6 though, to high on the final drive, 70 is just about achieved at 3k would be 90 on an NE. The MK2 would be fun with a 4speed tran swap and maybe an NE, wouldn't need anything more cars light enough, did fancy swapping my 1.8i 3speed for the 4 at one point many moons ago, that would have been fun. Oh for for the money...
Ive only ever had 1 vauxhall, 2.0d vectra and it got me from middlesbrough to dundee and back on a 3rd of a tank but once the injectors went the car just fell to bits with gremlins lol. So never again would i own one but a good channel and am enjoying the video's.
I looked at all these too Dougie.....I had a 1.5TD Corsa as a Courtesy car from a main dealer years ago, it felt fast as hell. That Astra B...I could be wrong, and i have been before...I'm almost sure ALL facelift B's had the round Vauxhall badge on the bonnet as opposed to the early square badge...my Dad also had 2 F plate 1.6 GL B's, F628 PTF & F196 JRS.
Haha the absolute torture for ye Dougie. Anytime I buy a motor, I go on a gumtree ban for a wheena weeks te stop me going mad looking at motors I can’t store/buy so I know the feeling lol
I used to have a 1998 1.4 Corsa Sport and that was very nippy for what it was , though i was jealous of my mate as he had the 1.6 GSI version and that was very fast 130mph on the motorway he could do .
Great video. Iv had my eye on the gold mk2, I had the idea of putting a 1.7 TD in it. I think Vauxhall should of put the c16 in the cav. I owned a calibre that had a c16 fitted,
great video matey! you're right about those mk2 astras being nippy, back in the day, i had a 1987 D reg astra 1.3 merit, and i altered the timing and run it on shell v-power, and i had 120mph out of it on the speedo! (probably a genuine 110) but still fast for a 1.3! have a bid on that astra gls 1.6i, you know you need it! ;-)
Good video that, not too many on here like that from people who do actually know what they’re talking about, nice to see the signature outro return! 👌👌
Great video. I am the only person in the world that loves the airbag wheel in the cavalier. It's probably cos my dream car I had (95 cav 2.0 cdx auto) came with it. I regret trading it in still to this day. But for me in this line up its the vectra. Just cos it's got the most pretty engine. X20xev.
Another great video, make it a regular feature on your channel. I am hoping to get a Cavalier or Carlton as a retirement toy soon.Preferably a 2.0 8 valve if a Cavalier, not a fan of the early Ecotecs as I had both as 3 year old cars and found the 8 valve to be a much more reliable and quieter engine .
Dougie, tried very hard not to even blink for the whole video...failed BTW. Worked my way through your videos, nearly caught up now (watched this out of order as looked good). Boasting now, had Astra CLUB (MKII), D-reg,1.3 4 speed box, 75bhp, all white colour coded, except door handles, even still have the gift pack in cellophane, keyring, scarf, etc. Then Corsa B 1.2 LS 3-door, N-reg, Smoke Silver, STILL HAVE THE (NON AIRBAG) STEERING WHEEL, ONE OF MY FAVOURITES, Vectra B P-reg 2.0 Di LS trim hatch, beautiful metallic green, then for courier work, CorsaVan B, 1.7D S-reg, finally AstraVan 1.7D, Y-reg, white (obviously :) ). My favourite from your selection, Astra 1.6 GLSi, beautiful met red. This type of video is really enjoyable, more when you have time please.
It's always nice to look I did look at the Cavi I thought it was a good buy myself but thought it was a bit far from Inverness. Never seen the Astra it certainly looks a good car.
I had a couple of those 1.7 td's in Cavaliers, one white poverty spec think it was called an envoy with blue interior trim. Then a LS cav both new. Went well apart from the huge turbo lag, shit yourself at junctions but once you wound them up went well
If you did car stickers I'd definitely buy one or two. Same style as the podcast banner would look cracking in the back window! The blue cavalier was the best of the bunch. BCT outro🙂
Had a T reg Corsa B 1.7D (non turbo) in GLS trim. Must have been pre-facelift as it did not have velour seats or electric mirrors. All it has was central locking and sunroof.
Shine automotive on youtube have taken out the 1.8 engine from their mk3 cavalier and they have done some welding so they can mount a newer 1.9td engine in .Many people have said the isuzu 1.7 diesel engines are superb seen someone say they get 64mpg out of a mk3 cavalier great for the cars size .
I enjoyed that vid, you have a very good eye for a bargain, the wee astra with a hundred horse was is my favourite, it'd be nice if you did a follow up vid as to what they all went for.
Great video Dougie very interesting to watch you have great knowledge. I have a 56 pate vectra 1.9. CDTI Elite best car i have owned, in48 years.love your channel
Hi there I love the video of you looking at vehicles on the Internet very interesting and I feel for you that you can’t buy them cars I wish you could I like to see more contents what you could do with them keep ? the great work up thank you .
With your knowledge of vauxhalls I'd love to see you do more car reviews. There's some pretty shoddy youtubers out there wasting opportunity's to get a detailed review because they don't know enough about the vauxhall brand. Just wanted to say, So glad I found your channel I was an avid total vauxhall buyer bk in the day. Went really downhill after you left. They reviews weren't the same. Just stats, figures and pictures. Also the bimonthly thing just made it impossible to get copy's... 🤦♂️
My dad had a vectra P reg in black 1.8i in black I found this a brilliant and fun car as I was 18 so of course i would lol.He had a L reg mondeo which in comparing it the mondeo was poop
Just thought you would like to know there is a 2001 omega 2.2 cdx saloon for sale on fb market place from Newtonards in northern Ireland.. 51000 miles and looks mint.
Pretty sure that's the cav I was thinking about buying 3 or 4 years ago. Pretty sure its the same car that furiousbdrivings buddy bought and made a small on appearance on one of his videos. Cant find the video yet but if i do ill let you know.
My dads old cavalier 1.6 gls a reg automatic was very nippy and fast if im hones .the big ends on those engines were a weak point on them. thats what killed alot of those old cavaliers astras off .
They'd burn oil and run low, 1600s were indeed bad for that. Piston rings would go. Powerful engine for the time. I had an Opel Ascona on a Y reg, 1.6 3 speed auto. Scrapped it in favour of a SRi130 that was a far worse car. Idiot.
Can you do this again Dougie. I am desperate for another cavalier or early vectra (your fault from watching your vids, so you owe me!). I even have an omega now (ebay purchase)
How anyone can say a vectra is a great handling car is well beyond me lol, I had a V6 SRI and it was the worst handling car I’ve ever had !. To the point it almost killed me when it just didn’t want to corner and flipped off a railway bridge and landed on its roof, my MK5 Sportive SE Astravan handles bettter. Nothing still comes close to the Cav GSI 16v I had back in the 90’s tho ! 🤣🤣
