1989 MK2 Astra GTE Cabby

[pac1982]

Just brought this, picking it up on Wednesday





It’s 1989 GTE 2.0 8v with 50k on the clock and only 2 owners, recent new hood and the sills have been sorted out as well

Plus I’ve had this sitting around for the last 12 months



Looks quite mint there but Its got lower cross member damage hidden behind that bumper, the hoods royally curse word, there are dents on pretty much every panel and it needs a new engine and gear box, so I’ll be taking the later spec Black interior out the blue one and putting it in the white one I think black seats and trim will go better with the black hood.

The blue ones also got a fully working power hood and the white one is manual but I’ve asked about this on mig web and apparently it not a straight forward swap any one on here ever done it before?

I’ll be getting rid of those daft M3 Mirrors as well

Then I'll break the blue one for parts once i've had everything I want

[pac1982]

Forgot to mention my mates got one of these says i can have it for £250 so looks like i'm gonna be quite skint this month

[alex]

Looks nice. I often think white is the best colour for GTEs

[pac1982]

I think white makes it look even more retro, would you say the GTE is a 80's or 90's car? First made in the 80's but earned it reputation in the 90's

[street]

Awesome project! I have a big soft spot for these
You'd think the power hood swap would be straightforward.... wonder whats involved?

I always think of these cars as 90's, even though like you say they are an 80's designed car! I think its because they were at their most popular in the 90's. A rare sight these days anyway, mk2 Astras in general were everywhere one minuite and then 90% of them just vanished overnight!

[seansmk1mad]

Lovely looking car that, white with white wheels looks the biz. It'll go like stink with the xe fitted, not that the 8v's are slow or owt.

power hood = extra weight, leave the push roof on it

[brightspark]

love them! white looks great on these, nice buy
my first car at the tender age of 17, a 1.8 CDI GTE lookalike....sadly i crashed it

[alex]

Nah, its an 80s car - an 80s iconic hothatch infact. Ceased production in 1991 so I wouldn't say it's a 90s car.

They all dissapered because they are very tempting for people to steal - easy to break into etc. They rust like nobodys business if you are not very careful so a lot have seen that fate. A lot of the GTE 16v, once they get a little crusty are broken for the engine and end up in Novas or kit cars - instead of someone looking after them.

[pac1982]

Quick update

[pac1982]

Another update, no real big difference as yet apart from a new black interior, a good service on the engine, and freshened up the tired plastics and polished up the paint work a bit














I’ve still got loads of jobs to do, including transferring the electric windows and power hood from my old cabby and converting the rear windows to electric with a universal kit

For some reason I’ve got the idea in my head to put It on some wide mini style ultralight wheels like this



Don’t suppose any one could do a photo shop job for me and put these wheels on the astra??