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[minimeee]

I'm guessin this is where my love of the omega started, this is my dads 1984 1.8GL carlton he had when i was just a lad, comfyest car ive ever been in !

[JiMbOb789]

i like them carltons, they got an appealing look to them i think! 8-)

[minimeee]

Was it not this style of carlton they designed the lotus omega/carlton on?

[Big Fra]

Was it not this style of carlton they designed the lotus omega/carlton on?

No, I believe it was the Omega A (UK Mk2 Carlton).

A friend of mine bought a 2.2i CD manual in glorious brown., What a car. Fast, great on juice, the only thin was it was so rusty, the previous owner had welded a piece of scaffy bar from the suspension turret to the bulkhead on either side.

A classic vauxhall in all its glory.

Dont see many anymore, shame.

[Bacon Butty Man]

i sold my B regd Granada for one one thos, it was a 2.0 gl, was a nice tidy car but the ride was no where as good as the granada, which i still love now, wish they would make a new version of it

[waspy]

I'm guessin this is where my love of the omega started, this is my dads 1984 1.8GL carlton he had when i was just a lad, comfyest car ive ever been in !

I had one of those some years back, a 2.0 litre CD in red.
Very good car, comfy, good on juice, but i hated the colour  
I sold it to my x grillfiend's sister & she ran it for ages.
Get this & i qoute " i thought you said it was good on fuel?"
"it is!!!!!"
She didn't realize it had five gears  

[mars]

My mom had an identical Carlton to that (also a 1984) which she ran for about 7 years and then bought a 1991 Carlton and then a 2003 Omega which is what got me to buy one. All of the Vauxhalls have been very reliable.

[al and omega]

wow real old skool cool! had an astra belmont mk 11 Lxi another great vx it melted a bit more everytime it rained but mechanicaly it was fine!

[davlad22]

Wow! is that an original Carlton!?! I've never seen one of those before!

Was everything in the eighties sepia coloured!?!  

[minimeee]

yeah totally original, and yeah there were some damn funny lookin colours in the 80's lol i've been lookin on autotrader now and again but never see 1

[humbucker]

yeah totally original, and yeah there were some damn funny lookin colours in the 80's lol i've been lookin on autotrader now and again but never see 1

My parents always had Vauxhalls, and I remember they had one of these, the Vauxhall Viceroy. Quality. The suspension was incredible, bounced around everywhere. Real comfort I remember. But check THAT interior! This is the same colour as the one we had and the same velor / vinyl interior as the one we had. Rank.

[MaxV6]

my very first vauxhall was a 2.0cdx carlton (company car) , in metallic burgundy red (much like the picture above, but with nicer rims, and higher spec) .

i've been a solid Vx man ever since.,,,    I loved that motor...  it was only because I couldn't find a 2.2 version in the colour and trim (CDX ) I wanted when i had to buy my own car, that I bought my First Senator instead...

had a few others as second cars since then, but always had a big Vx ever since... 24 years... since that first CDX.

[ScottW]

I learned to drive in an old D reg 2.0 Ltr carlton, beauty of a car, shame about the monstrous back pressure.