BTCC VAUXHALL CAVALIER ** The Car That Got Me Into Cars **

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[chrisfisher]

Adam, this is the 1995 RML (Ray Mallock) championship winning car won by John Cleland. This was up for sale last year along with James Thompson’s cavalier as a package for an undisclosed amount at Vaux valves. Now myself and 3 of my mates help Jim Pocklington look after his DCRS 011 (chassis one) cavalier gsi built Dave Cook Racing, raced in period by John Cleland and Chris Hoggetts. At brands this year for the super touring power 2 event we were in the same garage as Danny Evan’s who owns the spa 24hr cavalier. Having a good look around it it’s a turbo shell that rml used with basically standard bumpers and an aero package externally. The same shells as this 1995 car through to Tony Absoloms last ever 1995 cavalier driven by Richard Kaye in period. The reverse cylinder head was of no power advantage, this was purely to get the engine to sit lower and as far back in the engine bay as they could. Although the spa car is a 1993/4 the reverse head wasn’t used yet but the exhaust manifold is designed a little like a side winder without turbo and goes over the gearbox and down the back of the bulkhead with an air ram over the top of the rocker cover to the throttle bodies. Again to get the engine low and as far back as possible. After this is when the reverse head was designed. When Adam Beard (twin engine corsa) was running with us and who was responsible for getting us in with Jim, he made a detailed comparison video on his channel of the reverse head which was borrowed off of Tony and one of ours, which is a very good watch.
The front arches sit the way they do because they were rolled to death to get the 19” dynamag centre lock wheels in and these still can not turn full lock. We have 18” bbs centre locks with the arches rolled to death on chassis one and aren’t able to get full lock.
If you watch the top gear video with Tiff Needell doing the comparison test of the btcc cars, ours is the one used to compare with the bmw 318 and Toyota carina, as 011 was used as the spare car in the 1992 season.
011 was the test mule to run rwd using a gsi 4x4 shell and is notably different by the roll cage to its sister cars. Vauxhall were trying to play bmw at their own game. It did 4 test days told to us by JC at brands last month, but they couldn’t make it work and reverted back to fwd making faster lap times. The rear suspension set up was never changed and still houses the rwd set up.

[ricknick]

These and the Volvo 850 estates racing each other was truly the golden age of btcc for me

[DarrenCurtis-ig]

My dad had a car transportation company back in the day (Car to Car) he did lots of work with Vauxhall amongst others and I remember picking up John Clelands Cavalier on a number of occasions from Ray Mallocks.
A very cool car and some good memories from my childhood!

[mshawweldmech]

Don't usually comment on youtube, not so botherd about the cav, just happy to see you in the cossie

[rustysphotography]

Straight away i spotted the scottish flag and thought of John Cleland . his car usually had the roof painted with the flag . I remember he was always in the action

[Urbexy]

Back in the days when BTCC cars were based on road cars. Now they all run the same engines and the panels are just there to make it look like the road-going car. For me the A4 BTCC car from the min 90s is the one that stands out with the bright yellow mirrors 🙂

[amonero]

You could see how excited you were talking about it . Keep up the good work with the channel

[starfox_wr-e]

Golden Era of BTCC this.
Lost so many hours Toca Touring Car Championship on the old PlayStation 1 😂
Some of the lads even brought a copy & console to work to play on the lunch breaks at one point, even when the game was ancient lol

[ScottyWilliamson-pwoq]

Sierra 3dr cosworth
Good to see your out and about in yours 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[DVerbe]

Nothing beats a 90s BTCC car, absolutely nothing.

[alancobbin]

A very good friend of mines dad was the mechanic for a Cavalier race car for the UK thunder saloon series in the 90s-00s, went to many races as pit crew, what a time to be alive, happy days 😊

[b.p.mcshortson]

I could imagine the front fender panel gaps are to house the big wheels. And the panel gaps above headlights and grille a trick to get more air in the intake and/ or cooling into the engine bay.

[robcossie]

wow lovely brings back the good old days, John Cleland was a proper racer and character.

[ironicturtle]

"Even for the smell of it" Legend!! Pretty sure this was at super touring power 2. If not ths one then one the very same. So cool

[stevewarrington]

Cracking cars in the btcc, john Cleland was king in it, james Thompson I believe was in it for his first works drive, going on to do really well. Best era

[tomharvey]

Saw this one at super touring power 2 recently. There was a lot of nice machinery there!

[josephtaylor]

Adam, after the cavalier turbo there was the GSI 4X4, same as the turbo minus the leather seats and turbo 👍

[markjzsupra]

love to see the old scool cars, my brother in law had a cavalier sri and liked the calibra turbo. my first car was a hillman avenger then mini clubman 1275gt then had lots of other cars like renault 25 and triumph acclaim hls with honda engine and gearbox, Also had a mk2 astra gte and a fiat 126 water cooled version. also had a mg convertable for 3 weeks. Then got into japanese cars a toyota mk3 turbo 7m gte then a mitusbishi gto twin turbo with hks parts. then in 2001 bought a toyota supra mk4 twin turbo and had blitz exhaust and fmic and decatted with water injection and RLTC and a 4k torque convertor. also bought a boostlogic turbo kit with 74gts turbo and phr fuel kit a nos kit and a TH400 gearbox for long term plans but never got to fit it all. also bought a orange supra shell with full roll cage and never did a thing with it. would never get rid as it is my ultimate car for me.
do love seeing classic cars from the past. think now nothing really stands out like 3 door cossie or skylines.
do like the k24 series engines and swapped into different cars

[MrG.Ivan]

Up knockhill was a golden area of racing for sure 🙏🌈💚🦐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[alexirving]

For me it was the Texaco, Sierra touring cars, but the super touring era with Cleland was the best, still watch it now but back then that was unmissable racing.