We buy a Mk2 Astra GTE convertible for spares and go to pick it up with the recovery truck 

West Lothian Council have made all 30s 20s and it's sooo stupid. They're not ALL rusty Vauxhalls. Just some of them 😂

Really hope Ellesmere survives ❤️

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten well my brother started there in 1973 as an apprentice, there was 12000 people working there, now there's only 1000! So I don't see PSA keeping it open. I worked for the V6 engine plant for 12 years as an engine technician. Durability tests and warranty work. A colleague and I bought all the factory tools and ran a website V6 technicians, we still have all the tools and the knowledge but not seen a V6 in years till I found your channel

@@BigDave1965 we've got an Omega 2.5 and a Cavalier with a 3.0. Also got a spare 3.0 bare engine sitting there but not sure about a full set of parts get it running.

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten there's a ellesmere port V6 Plant video on RU-vid, It shows a young me carrying out a durability test on a V6 cav engine and the complete factory tour. All the machinary went to China & India at the end of production in 2004

Oh yes, that's definitely a cool garage. Probably very cool in Scotland during the winter...

It's a plastic wheel, same as the early MK3 Cavalier SRi. Keep meaning to send off the CD wheel for recovering as I have someone to do it. I do love that facelift threespoke though. Vauxhall made some great steering wheels in the 80s and early 90s 🧐

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten I never realised that pattern steering wheel ever came with a plastic rim. I guess I just never saw a really early mk3 Cavalier, they took a while to catch on down here and a lot of the Cavalier buyers were queuing up to buy run out mk2s. I've only ever seen them with leather rims in the CDi and SRi, which I drove a lot of in period when they were coming off the fleets as I had a weekend job collecting cars from auction for a local garage that specialised in Cavaliers. The CDi was a properly nice way to travel... A friend of mine had a semi-facelift mk3 2.0 Li saloon that he bought from the original owner and slightly modified to suit his tastes. He had the same steering wheel as you currently have in the CDi, but with a leather rim. Apparently it came from a late pre-facelift Astra mk3 SRi estate that he found in the local scrappy with extremely terminal rust. That Cavalier was a bit of a monster, although it was only an 8-valve it wasn't short of power and with only minor mods it was putting 145 horses on the road. It was a bit of an oddity being an L but without a sunroof so there was speculation that it might have been a cancelled order police car, so maybe it already had a tweaked engine out of the factory, as most police vehicles do... Yes, Vauxhall/Opel really used to do some great steering wheels in that period, and it was so easy to swap bits from different cars in the range to really make something unique to you...

@gosportjamie Completely agree. My dad had a couple of cavaliers back in the early 90s, both with nice 3-spoke steering wheels. That 4-spoke airbag thing Vauxhall plonked into just about everything from 1995 onwards wasn’t quite so appealing!

I bought it in 2018 with a genuine 6000 miles on the clock. One old boy owned it from new and only used it in summer to tow his caravan. Got 23,000 on it now. Drives like a new car. Up for sale soon too.

West Lothian and yeah the Hocks are here. I keep meaning to balance them and put them on the Cavalier to make sure they're not buckled. Will be for sale.

The are Irmscher side skirts. Kenzo has already nicked one wing for his GTE 🙄 and I think the other one is a bit rusty. I drive up and down the country quite regularly so I could possibly take the bonnet one time.

10/40 Semi synthetic is the most popular option

A lost artform, the good old hotwire... 😂

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten 😇

It doesn't have them, the bumper doesn't have the holes so it must have been like that from factory

It has been weighed in sorry!

Yeah from 2005-11 I was the editor from 09-11 and did some freelance through until 2014.

Yeah but the number on the door doesn't work any more. I bought the Iveco with my voluntary redundancy payment from Total Vauxhall in 2011 😁

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten thought it was you its stu from old mk2 cav days

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten I loved that red SRi 130 You had when You worked at TV.

The GTE (not mine) will def be for sale early next year. My Cav GSi is not for sale, I've had it since 2006 and it should be back on the road again if I get a good couple of days on it over the festive period. Which I should do seeing as there is literally nothing else to do 😷

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten what sort of money on the GTE

I think all the convertibles were 115hp. This one is a K reg so it has a cat and lambda sensor, C20NE. It'll come in handy for something 😊

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten always nice to have a 2.0 8v kicking about 😎

Yeah

The engine has been sat for ages. Its time will come 😃

It's sitting in Kenzo's garage we will get round to it at some point. It was on the road and running. Too many projects 😂

@@OnceDrivenForeverSmitten know that problem got a xe nova needing tlc and a evo sitting up for 4 year ek is all ways pushing not like over in the east 😁