GM made many, many Cavaliers during the model's 23-year production run, and these days the mid-to-late-90s models are most common in high-turnover wrecking yards. Mostly I don't photograph Cavaliers for this series, though I did shoot this '90 Cavalier RS last year. However, I do think that cars powered by the Oldsmobile Quad 4 engine are worthy of Junkyard Find status— we've seen this '90 Cutlass Calais International Series and this '93 Achieva SCX so far— and the Cavalier Z24 was the last GM car to get the Quad 4, so let's take a look at this '98 that I spotted in Denver last week.
For the 1996 model year, GM had come up with the LD9 Twin Cam 2.4 version of the Quad 4, which featured balance shafts plus a torque-enhancing stroke-increase/bore-decrease treatment. Power was 150 horses, which was pretty good for a car this small.
The late 1990s were all about body-colored plastic cladding and trim.
The Getrag 5-speed is pretty rare in these things, so I was disappointed to find the usual automatic shifter inside.
from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com
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