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chrisy-m
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new to this site just thought id show of my wee cav, my family have owned her for 13yrs an never missed a beat

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well after the good few days we had, got time to wash the car an got some picts with an slr

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Looks really nice that :D

Amazing what a differance a decent camera makes, think i might have to invest in one.
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lookin well m8, very sweet and tidy cav you have there ;)
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Nice looking Cav you have there.

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looks nice, love the colour. nice to know the history so well too.
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yea, never had anything major done that a cav didnt need. and it was usually me or my father that done the work
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love the colour, where did ya find the red for the stripe or was it already on the car, got a silver myself and think the stripe goes well with it.
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Bull wrote:love the colour, where did ya find the red for the stripe or was it already on the car, got a silver myself and think the stripe goes well with it.
you can pick up the red stripe as tape from vx, not sure of the part number but they are available
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The red strip is part of the side mouldings normaly, but looks like he has diffrent ones on his car . Get your self down to halfords for some 'Go faster stripe' and use that. The red bits are fitted to the SRi model as standered.

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very nice mate looks clean keep up the good work :wave
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Thats one nice looking Cav.
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I love it :love i wanted the red strip on my cav, but someone said he though it wouldnt look right :p

I thought VX stopped making the red piping, i tried ages ago and got told nope no longer available
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FoxyCav wrote:I love it :love i wanted the red strip on my cav, but someone said he though it wouldnt look right :p

I thought VX stopped making the red piping, i tried ages ago and got told nope no longer available
depends how nice your parts department are :)
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looking rather nice is that :)
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looks good. ihave had mine for 9 years 13 years is pretty amazing
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Envoy CDX wrote:
FoxyCav wrote:I love it :love i wanted the red strip on my cav, but someone said he though it wouldnt look right :p

I thought VX stopped making the red piping, i tried ages ago and got told nope no longer available
depends how nice your parts department are :)
obviously not very nice. id love it on mine just to set it all off
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well got the front lowered more and standards on her now, no more arching :woohoo:
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Very nice cav there. Loving the wheels. :thumb :thumb
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very very nice
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nice cav there mate. she looks bloomin marvellous. super cool :cool
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Hui gorgeous car how much is it lowered by cos i am wanting to do mine but dont know how low to go
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steven240374 wrote:Hui gorgeous car how much is it lowered by cos i am wanting to do mine but dont know how low to go
lowered more now at the front, springs got time to bed in, 60 sri fronts an 60 gsi rears
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new wheels fitted
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I love the orignal wheels. but i do like the new ones.

Different even euro style.
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