I have been on the look out for another Omega for a while and a business trip to Berlin opened up the opportunity to find one and drive back home to Sweden. Just the week before my trip one showed up on mobile.de were I have had a saved search for Omega Estate 3.2L V6. This one looked perfect, just a little over 160.000km and recently serviced with brakes and cambelt. I called the owner and luckily he spoke good english (not so common among Germans) and I told him about my trip and I said if it is like the description I will buy it.
So after my work in Berlin I rented a car and drove 400 km to where the Omega was located, we met on Saturday morning and the car was even better than the description, almost like new and it has been extremely well taken cared of. Not one single rust spot, not one dent in the body. Completely clean interior. Not much to discuss about and the owner was very helpful when we went to the local German registration office to arrange for my registration papers and the special export license plates. Took less than an hour to fix that and then it was officially mine.
This guy is a real Opel guy, in his garage he showed me another gem of his, an '91 Omega EVO 500 !! As you can imagine we had a lot to talk about and I spent a few more hours at his place taking about cool Opel cars.
The it was time for me to hit the Autobahn for my 1200km drive back home. This Omega is the Sport version with a little stiffer springs and shocks, you notice the difference but it is a good feeling. It also has a modified exhaust with just the end muffler in place giving it that deep roar when you accelerate. I just love it. On Autobahn I let it show it's colors and I had it running for a long time in a pace of 190-200 kph (about 120mph) and sometimes faster, the highest I went was 235 kph (146mph) and it had more in it but I ran out of road to try more :-)
Since it is the Sport version it also has the sport seats making it really comfortable to drive for a long time in.
Great car, as they are. Since this one is in such excellent shape I will only drive it in summer time. My other slightly junkier one with 360.000 km on the clock will be my winter car.
I'll post some images later.
Jan