autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
Chevrolet built Cavaliers for close to a quarter-century, selling something like five million units. If you count the all the other J-body siblings sold around the world (including some really weird stuff), the extended Cavalier family is one of the largest in automotive history. Somehow, though, the once-ubiquitous 1982-1987 first-generation Cavaliers have all but disappeared from North American car graveyards; I’ve documented plenty of later Cavaliers during my junkyard travels, sure, but the early ones seem to have been crushed decades ago. Finally, here’s a reasonably straight ’85 wagon in a northeastern Colorado yard.
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
This one is plastered with numerous stickers celebrating the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but the lack of horrific rust on this car indicates that it spent very little, if any, time in Yooperland during its life.
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
Two engines were available in the 1985 Cavalier: A 2.0-liter four-cylinder rated at 85 horsepower and a 2.8-liter V6 making 130 horses. This car has the 2.0.
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
A four-on-the-floor manual transmission came as base equipment, with a five-speed manual and three-speed automatic as optional equipment. This car has the automatic, which added 425 bucks to the $6,727 sticker price (that’s about $1,115 extra on a $17,635 car when considered in 2021 dollars). How much did the five-speed manual cost? 75 American dollars!
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
Air conditioning added a stinging $750 to the cost (that’s about $1,965 now), but the original purchaser of this car decided to do without. Probably a good move, what with the slushbox vampiring away so many of those 85 horses, anyway.
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
These were useful little haulers, but GM stopped building US-market J-body wagons after 1994. If you wanted a more luxurious version of the Cavalier wagon, you could always get an Olds Firenza, Buick Skyhawk, or Pontiac Sunbird with the longroof setup. Sorry, Cadillac didn’t sell Cimarron wagons.
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
This says, “Mess with me and I sue!”
autos, chevrolet, news, junkyard find: 1985 chevrolet cavalier wagon
The first-generation Cavalier Z24s get some enthusiast love these days, but an ordinary wagon with the four-banger doesn’t have much hope of being rescued from The Crusher.

A car badged as a Chevrolet Cavalier has been available in China since 2016, but it’s a Chevy Cruze cousin with no J-body genes.

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