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opel kadett cead info required for resto

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    #32
    andy 85
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭andy 85


    eventually finished the car here it is


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    #33
    S Line
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭S Line


    Was this the same Kadette that was used as the getaway car for the kidnappers of Don Tidy in the TV3 documentary ‘Crimes that shook Ireland’

    I reckon it was (it had a black and silver reg plate, I just didn’t react quickly enough to try and memorise the reg)

    There were MK 2 & 3 escorts as well as a MK1 fiesta that appeared to have original regs as well as a Jaguar XJ with an 83-D- plate

    A lot of the archive footage was good too – Datsun Cherry, Ford Granada Garda Cars and Army FJ Land Cruisers


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    #34
    manta mad
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭manta mad


    yep ,, was the same kadett on tv3 last night !


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    #35
    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,928 ✭✭✭dingding


    What extras had the Cead have over the normal car and was it much extra to buy.

    Also what year were they sold.

    THanks


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    #36
    andy 85
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭andy 85


    not too sure on the price it had the sr steerin wheel a rev counter the red and gold stripes cead badges alloys and they were sold in 1981 and they were all black


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    #37
    dingding
    Registered Users Posts: 4,928 ✭✭✭dingding


    hi5 wrote: »
    For sale in DoneDeal

    Would make a nice replica Cead:)


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2328764


    Full?id=7091369

    Looks like it has the proper Cead alloys.


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    #38
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    They were on other Kadetts as well, not sure if they were on anything else sold in Ireland though.

    Opel_Kadett_Argent_LS_83_2_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg


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    #39
    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    andy 85 wrote: »
    eventually finished the car here it is

    Nice restoration!
    Btw, where did you get the plates made up? (or still on original plates)?


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    andy 85
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭andy 85


    the original plates were the same i got a company in ardee in co louth to make them . the guy did a great job hand made them had to cut the numbers and letters by hand


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    #41
    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    andy 85 wrote: »
    the original plates were the same i got a company in ardee in co louth to make them . the guy did a great job hand made them had to cut the numbers and letters by hand

    Indeed he did, were they expensive?
    Often a good resto is let down by cheap or 'wrong' long plates, they are era perfect!


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    #42
    Blue850
    Registered Users Posts: 2,565 ✭✭✭Blue850


    kadettcead.jpg

    Press release from March 1981


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    #43
    The Red Ace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭The Red Ace


    good find, I remember seeing a few of them around Galway in the early eighties


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