I was on the way home a few nights ago and stopped at the grocery store. As I was leaving, I spotted this very well preserved mid-Eighties Cavalier sedan parked at the bowling alley next door. It appears to be a base 1984-87 sedan, judging from the wheels.
Thinking it was an employee’s car, I went back the next day, but it was gone. So the nighttime photo is all you get, but here’s a picture from the 1984 Cavalier brochure.
It’s hard to tell from the photo, but it was in very nice shape, with only minor rust. I’ve seen much newer Cavaliers in much worse shape around here.
It was so dark my first reaction was… “Oh Lord, another Cimmarron.” If it was we would soon have all the surviving ones catalouged here…
+1 on the Cimmaron comment, Dan…I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing!
Did I tell you guys I saw another one in Oregon?
Even here on the other side of the globe where the Cimmarron never roamed, my first though was exactly that too…
Somewhere out there, a Cavalier lurks in the dark….watching……waiting……
That’s a pretty impressive find!
I haven’t seen a Cav of that vintage around here in years.
What does a lurking cockroach think or do? Is it dangerous… if you don’t actually drive it? Does an after 7pm paint job mean the same as a 50 foot paint job. So many questions. So few cavaliers.
@wstarvingteacher
A 7pm paint job around here is like a 20 footer, 9pm and we’re absolutely in the 50 foot range.
50 footers are usually Fleet White, because.. If it aint right ya paint it White!
The problem is, the if you shine the lights on it…..it runs under the refrigerator again.
Is it The same sort of Sable Metallic Brown that my 84 Convertible was? I Have seen a few of Those, Perhaps a few in a tWo tone sable?
I do believe That Is an *4 or was The Color Continued into 85? 86? 87 even?
Despite it’s shortcomings, I think the nicer trimmed J’s like this one from this era were kind of attractive…
Especially when people mistook it for Cadillacs…
I’ve posted my own late-night find to the Cohort Pool – an International Scout (the limit of my identification abilities!)
Here’s an even better preserved Cavalier currently for sale on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LIKE-BRAND-NEW-1-OWNER-8-490-MILES-NONE-BETTER-/270971053084?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item3f1722241c
It’s clean alright, but it’s got a horizontal speedo… Don’t think I’ve seen one of those since the 1970 Ford Fairlane. Did the Cav having one in 1985 mean it was trying to be classy or old lol!
Horizontal speedometers were common in American made cars up until about the late 1980s. My ’87 Ford Taurus had one.