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Omegas in the spot light...
« on: 22 January 2015, 20:52:11 »








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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #1 on: 22 January 2015, 22:41:30 »

 bottom pic looks odd   ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #2 on: 22 January 2015, 22:54:26 »

they only the cdx...cant these ppl afford the elite lol  :D  ;D
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #3 on: 22 January 2015, 23:18:29 »

they only the cdx...cant these ppl afford the elite lol  :D  ;D
Those CDXs are Elite spec if you run them through the Vauxhall system :y
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #4 on: 23 January 2015, 00:26:16 »

bottom pic looks odd   ;D ;D ;D ;D
Yep that's Cherie Blair, very odd ;)
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #5 on: 23 January 2015, 07:23:12 »

but elite sounds better than saying cdx lol  :D ;D
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #6 on: 23 January 2015, 07:24:50 »

but elite sounds better than saying cdx lol  :D ;D

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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #7 on: 23 January 2015, 11:14:14 »

Loved seeing them, and all the Police Omegas, flanking them; a fine chapter of Vx's history. Saddest bit was when Charles asked for another 'batch' of Omegas he was told 'sorry, we don't make them any more' - this was in 2003/4 - well at that time I'm fairly sure there would have been a few still in showrooms or with delivery mileage on them, they could have got some together. Just a bit of a missed PR opportunity, if the Royal family want to drive around in your product for the next few years you'd pull every string to get them one, wouldn't you?

The Queen wanted an estate car to replace her old Cresta estate back in the late 1970s - the fact that Vauxhall didn't make an executive estate any more didn't deter them - they made her a one-off Viceroy Estate. (OK, mini-history - Carlton, Viceroy and Royale launched in 1978, Viceroy axed a couple of years later, Royale facelifted and rebadged as a Senator and Monza, our Mk II Carlton in Germany was called Omega, and in 1994 the Senator was axed, leaving the Carlton's replacement, which was called the, oh I forget the name, now  ::)) Anyway, as I say missed opportunity.  :y
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #8 on: 23 January 2015, 13:04:36 »

the one blair was in the back of says cd on the door,still better than jags of that era!!
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #9 on: 23 January 2015, 22:00:49 »


There where a few Omegas following behind the hearse for the Queen mothers funeral, One or two saloons and one estate which had Elite alloys, Can't recall what the saloons where but they where all black and FLs with a few police Omegas in the background mainly PFLs.





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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #10 on: 24 January 2015, 01:56:59 »

That black estate might actually be Joffs :y
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #11 on: 24 January 2015, 02:04:37 »

That black estate might actually be Joffs :y

Nice one  :y

Wonder who was inside the estate, Must have been some members of the Royal family being that it was right behind the hearse  :-\
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #12 on: 24 January 2015, 03:23:30 »

That black estate might actually be Joffs :y

Can't see the pic in the link, one of the last trips for the estate in the service of the Met was when a Met Sgt had it to attend for a few days were I work ::) wonder how I know that 8)
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #13 on: 24 January 2015, 03:51:47 »

That black estate might actually be Joffs :y

Can't see the pic in the link, one of the last trips for the estate in the service of the Met was when a Met Sgt had it to attend for a few days were I work ::) wonder how I know that 8)

Queen mum passed in March 2002 so it was another year before mine was around, that one looks like a W reg
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #14 on: 24 January 2015, 04:28:51 »

Ah, fair dos... :y I knew that was around then... :-[
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Re: Omegas in the spot light...
« Reply #15 on: 24 January 2015, 04:30:36 »

That black estate might actually be Joffs :y

Can't see the pic in the link, one of the last trips for the estate in the service of the Met was when a Met Sgt had it to attend for a few days were I work ::) wonder how I know that 8)
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