LOU848P
This Cavalier is the oldest surviving example of the breed, it was first registered on 7th November 1975, and started life out as a company press release vehicle, and it was the first Cavalier to be painted Signal Yellow.
Signal yellow was an Opel Manta A 1974 colour and Vauxhall decided to use that colour as they thought it would show up better in black and white photographs.
Lou on the Vauxhall stand at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1975.
This Cavalier was the Launch car for Vauxhall, it was unveiled at the Earls Court Motor Show in 1975, it also appeared in the very first Vauxhall Cavalier brochure in autumn 1975, and it carried on being published in various Vauxhall brochures until winter 1976.
After Vauxhall had finished with it, it was placed in a container at Vauxhall in Luton in 1977 and not brought back out until 1983.
In 1983 it moved to Bristol with an ex Vauxhall employee, it then was sold again in 1996 to John Binding and moved to Clevedon, North Somerset, it stayed with John until 2006 where I purchased the car and saved it from being scrapped, it had a part restoration in January 2007 and later that year it appeared in Practical Classics
It has also appeared in Classic Car Weekly 2009, Practical Classics 2010 & Classics Monthly 2010.
