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[78bex]

As a kid I used to follow my big bro. around the breakers yards
While he was getting stuck into removing bits for his mini`s, I could wonder off & sit in the luxury motors . I remember always seeking out the other versions of my dads westminster or jags.  My first driving lesson was in that westminster with it`s silky smooth straight 6.   
My mum passed her test in a ford Consul & didn`t like dad`s wezzy.
I went with him to the vauxhall dealership in the seventies as he traded the old girl in for a Viva. I could tell he wasn`t happy, he called it a tin can. I passed my test driving that viva.

[05omegav6]

Had a week of lessons in a 1.1 Citroen AX, followed almost immediately by a four week/3000 mile trip up to and around Orkney in Dads 1.6 Sierra passed my test in that

First car was a 2.3 V6 Granada LX only owned 5 cars with less than 2 litres, and most of the rest have been V6s...

[Andy B]

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First car was a 2.3 V6 Granada LX only  ......

Like this? 

[05omegav6]

Yup except it was Nimbus Grey, and by the time I'd finished with it, had a blue GhiaX velour interior, TRX wheels and Ghia X bumpers, and of course the obligatory rusty bits




Oh and it was a saloon

[Andy B]

Yup except it was Nimbus Grey, and by the time I'd finished with it, had a blue GhiaX velour interior, TRX wheels and Ghia X bumpers, and of course the obligatory rusty bits




Oh and it was a saloon

Funnily enough, that has a blue Ghia interior too. 

[05omegav6]

Still have a soft spot for them  had 4 over the years, never an estate though...

That black one looks smart  those wheels suit the car Is it yours?

[Andy B]

Still have a soft spot for them  had 4 over the years, never an estate though...

That black one looks smart  those wheels suit the car Is it yours?

It belongs to  my Dad ..... the car's been in the funeral trade all it's 'life' 

[05omegav6]

Nice only one question, why bother with the R class?

[omega3000]

As a kid I used to follow my big bro. around the breakers yards
While he was getting stuck into removing bits for his mini`s, I could wonder off & sit in the luxury motors . I remember always seeking out the other versions of my dads westminster or jags.  My first driving lesson was in that westminster with it`s silky smooth straight 6.   
My mum passed her test in a ford Consul & didn`t like dad`s wezzy.
I went with him to the vauxhall dealership in the seventies as he traded the old girl in for a Viva. I could tell he wasn`t happy, he called it a tin can. I passed my test driving that viva.

My dad traded his racing green viva in for a datsun cherry  it had a few more toys and remember him saying how well it pulled up a steep hill in 4th compaired to the gutless viva  sadly the cherry didnt get on too well with the salt of a few british winters and rusted away  another plus was the reliability of the cherries engine and not having to jump start it whenever there was a frost like the viva 

[Andy B]

Nice only one question, why bother with the R class?

Cos the R Class is mine & the Granny belongs to my Dad .....  and after owning my Omega for almost 9 years I felt I deserved a change of car, but after always regretting selling my Senator ....... the Omega is stopping (for the moment ) 

[05omegav6]

I already knew the first bit the point I was making, was that the Granny was and (from the pic still is) a very capable estate perhaps not in the same league for refinement, but plenty worse places to be... and £6-800 a month buys you an awful lot of petrol/maintainance

The Omega is, in my humblest opinion, the exact car that the Scorpio should have been. But times move on I suppose.

[Andy B]

I already knew the first bit ... 

sorry!     

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. and £6-800 a month buys you an awful lot of petrol/maintainance

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  :o HOW MUCH!?     
The car was £15k and my 3 year loan for part of that is around £280 a month ......... though thinking about that - it's £100+ each to fill the bugger, and a tank doesn't last that much different from the Omega. 

[05omegav6]

  silly me   I thought that you had bought new I mean someone must have...  Alot of car for 15k, but still another expense

[Andy B]

silly me   I thought that you had bought new I mean someone must have...   .....

Not a chance me buying one new ......... you're looking at the best part of £50k 

[2boxerdogs]

Passed my test in a 1968 mk1 Escort , then bought a 3.3 litre Vauxhall velox hydramatic £256.00 to insure in 1971!! Since then had granadas, jags, rovers, mercs & several other makes lost count of them in over 40 years my 2.6 CDX is still the best of the bunch.