Not at that price!

[carlos_canter]

As some people were wondering about model cavaliers, a whole load has appeared, well, 12 to be exact.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vauxhall-Cavalier ... 4aaaff72f7
£20 start, has scratched windscreen, paint defect and pictures show places upside down on a hard surface, amongst other faults. Also looks like a respray to me.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GAMA-1-43-Vauxhal ... 35b1f2945f
This bloke selling a few of these, but has high hopes! Never been out the box - bollocks - how the hell did it get the chipped mirror and looks like the door is ever so slightly creased - £29.99 - JOG ON

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GAMA-1-43-Vauxhal ... 35b1838a60
Same bloke again, he wants £35 or best offer, how about £5 cos its chipped like mad you crazy fool!

Hes selling 7 Gama Vectra A at stupid prices but only wants £8.99 for the rarer calibra.

Theres a couple on for £7.00 starts and thats the prices to be expected, up to around £10 for V good examples.

RANT OVER

[specks]

very expensive,i sold my 3 models for £30 i think it was,wish i kept them though,will get more soon.


and they are the cheaper make aswell,mine were much better and touring car ones!!!!!

[carlos_canter]

If i remember correctly, yours would of been ONYX ? They specialised in touring car models and fantastic detail on them.

Minichamps are a excellant brand, but not sure if they did a Cavalier.

£30 for 3, at the time that would of been a fair price but the rarity of the Cavalier now would of probably got £15 - £30 a piece, depending on condion.

Matchbox ones are quite rare now, but dont command much value, think theres 2 on ebay at the moment with a mint boxed one at a very cheap price!

[Cavalier342]

Why are they all so small I'd kill for a 1/24 Cav.

[Kev_G]

not cheap hey

[gsi pie]

best thing to do is find a tamiya opel vectra (cavalier) but they are rare these days

[Kev_G]

can you not get them from ebay.de cheaper?

[HAIRIBO]

best thing to do is find a tamiya opel vectra (cavalier) but they are rare these days

I own 2!

[Cavalier342]

I wanna make my own
That R/C one does look tidy though.

[HAIRIBO]

One was brand new shell (BTCC one) and the other was a second hand damaged shell painted lime green so I bodged it back and made a replica of my CDX along with lip boot spoiler and alloys etc.

[carlos_canter]

I wanna make my own

These are the people to talk to andrei, KAMTEC MODELS.

They do loads of shells for the Mardave Mini/V12 series from Robin Reliants to the Legend series.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RELIANT-ROBIN-bod ... 48380c4bb6

No suspension on these, simple plate chassis provides all the flex it needs, designed for "carpet racing" series and have foam tyres, hundreds of alloy parts if required and thanks to the VERY simple gearbox(well, no gearbox really!) they go like stink.

As the full scale banger racing has progressed onto Cavaliers, I dont think it will be long until they produce a Cavalier shell, they allready do a ford mondeo, mk3 granada's and mk6 fiesta's, they even started producing nissan bluebirds and jaguar sov's.

It wont be 1/24th, but there around 1/12th scale, so a fair size.


JUST SPOTTED THIS!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Opel-Calibra-body ... 2c52270dee

They also do this and the vauxhall nova in ABS and Lexan. ABS is the better buy as its so strong.

[Cavalier342]

Thanks carlos, I'll keep my eye on the bay. Kamtec it is then.

[carlos_canter]

Thanks carlos, I'll keep my eye on the bay. Kamtec it is then.

Ive E-mailed them and as of yet, no reply.

But hopefully, as more and more real Cavaliers are raced in the banger series, they will give in and produce a shell, i know id have a few off them.

[Cavalier342]

Definitely. The only thing is though, if they do create a Cavalier shell, I wonder if it would be a bog standard shell or a turbo or a BTCC replica or such. I'd be after a standard shell so I can respray it in my choice of colour and make it look more like a display model. But it would be plastic though I suppose.

[carlos_canter]

It should be a bog standard shell, either a saloon or hatchback, not many BTCC cars are used in banger racing.

[Cavalier342]

Fair point. I'll keep a look out then.
Thanks.

[carlos_canter]

Still had no reply yet!

Ignorant swinya's

[gsi pie]

im after one aswell i have been for the last year lol

just to let you know tamiya are re launching the older cars

they already got the

mondeo btcc
bmw e36 btcc
volvo btcc
pug 406 btcc
the escort cossie wrc

so most probs the opel vectra will be bk on seen soon

[gsi pie]

[Deeksin]

That gsipie is minted would buy that any day!

[VauxhallGirl]

Did they ever make a model in the hatchback form?

[gsi pie]

think gamma did some hatchback models small tho

matchbox did the gsi 2000 years ago

[humbucker]

matchbox did the gsi 2000 years ago

they've been around 2000 years? amazing

[gsi pie]

lmfao didnt mean it like that

[carlos_canter]

Did they ever make a model in the hatchback form?

Gamma and herpa both do hatchback models:



Gamma are 1:43 scale while Herpa mainly produce for the model railway scale usually around 1:72 - 1:76



Matchbox - Herpa - Gamma hatch and Gamma saloon