Calibra pickup project (pics)

[heds]

[Violet]

Not into that rust!!

[heds]

its only surface rust will easy come off mate.

[SimonT]

Could have started with a decent shell. I've seen better condition ones in the scrappy.

[Vectra Dave]

its only surface rust will easy come off mate.

The last cally I broke up had rust just like those pics.

I put axle stands under the sills and they just dissappeared into the car. Took the skirts off and the amount of rot underneath was incredible. like an old metro or something.
The entire rear 18 inches of sill dissappeared into a pile of rusty mush on the floor. the rear arch outer skin separated from the inner and peeled right away around most of the circumference of the arch.


Good luck.

[MatG]

I posted a pic up of a modifed calibra pick up a while ago, they look great when finished

[DaveB]

the lads at DFD Vauxhall in gateshead have now started building the latest demo car

Pics of previous 'demo cars' ?

[MatG]

found the pic for you

[OllyHewitt]

now it looks like a proper boat

[Mark T]

The calibra Tailgate looks like a welded shut pickup anyway.

has anyone acually made it a drop down tailgate?

[Adam]

found the pic for you

and i met the driver/owner of that cally turquoise on the M4 between Cardiff and Port Talbot lmao we yelled at each other doing 70mph lmao lmao lmao

I also have pics so shall dig them out *hopefully*!!!

i remember putting a thread up few years back saying look wtf i just bumped into on the M4

[ANDYRACER]

Different. Has anyone tried making a convertable calibra?

[Add_Gee]

Yer there are a few in europe...

[heds]

i seen a calibra convertable at pvs05 it looked horrible, and as for the rust it really is just surface, the rest of the shell is solid, we got the car for free so why not use it?

[mattcoupturbo]

i seen a calibra convertable at pvs05 it looked horrible, and as for the rust it really is just surface, the rest of the shell is solid, we got the car for free so why not use it?

Generally cars are given away free for a reason though mate. Still don't think a bit of rust will trouble you seeing as what you've already done to it.

[dave_sport16v]

who are DFD? are they vauxhall specialists or something, or just a group of your mates who muck about with vauxhalls

[J4SON GT3]

It looks like the Calibra was designed to be a convertible with no frames around the door tops and the sweeping rear.

[heds]

dfd are a bunch of my mates and they started out mucking about with vauxhalls but are now a vauxhall breakers they do conversions and pretty much anything you want done really but do specialise in vauxhalls,
we got the car for nowt cos the engine was knackered so thats gonna get replaced with something like a c20let or V6

[AL]

A bit different - hadn't seen one before! Bloody rust though :|

Can buy off the shelf targa conversions in Germany

[Dan¹]

Nice project.

What's the gen with the MK2 Cav?

[Haynzee]

interesting.

[heds]

well the lads at the garage love thier mk2 cavs, they both have one each for the shows, one of which came second at billing this year for the 10th ani of the cav!
the one you can just see in the 1st pic is getting rebuilt and is gonna be stripped out with bucket seats and harneses with a V6 lump up front. the nexia is just about finished now as well, that has turned into a P reg astra gte, check out this post its been ongoing for years the building of the nexia gte new pics will be coming soon of the nexia project.

[Blue Calibre]

dan, daveybuc from mk2cav.com is one of the dfd crew

[heds]

yeh davey is one of the lads! hes mad he is!

[Paul]

its only surface rust will easy come off mate.

lmao