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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Dazzyjeff on 25 March 2010, 13:20:01
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Hello all,
Looking for a cheap v6 for a stag do trip stonehenge to John o'Groats on the May bank holiday so an MOT till June and some tax would be nice. Have no real in interest about the condition just as long as its mechanically ok for 1500 miles!!! let us know if you have one ideally in the wiltshire area but prepared to travel, cash waiting.
The task is to get a £300ish motor to John o'groats and back in 4 days..... so we have decided on one of these ideally in white/silver so we can dress it up as a police car.....??!!
cheers.
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[movedhere] Test Zone [move by] Jimbob.
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My miggy might fit your requirements
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1269528167
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But be very careful about dressing it up as a police car.....
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you will get 6 months minimum for that ofence! take my word.
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Damn it..... they're on to us already....!!!!
We weren't going to dress it up exactly like a real police car, just our interepretation of one!! Whats the 6 months for then, actually pulling people over or just wearing the hats?
Maybe just some writing down the side and some hazard tape on the back maybe??? What could we get away with?
cheers
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i doubt you would get away with any of it to be honest.
best bet is a blue and green stripe and writing POLITZIA or something on the side, but i would check it out first!
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obviously the last thing we want to do is pulled over......
Thats what we were thinking to be honest, 'the old Bill' od 'the Rozzers' down the side.... something like that!!
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You have heard of the offence "Impersonating a police officer"
well this one's "Impersonating a police car" ::) (they impound the car for 6 months and make all the accomplices walk home. :-/ ::)
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obviously the last thing we want to do is pulled over......
Thats what we were thinking to be honest, 'the old Bill' od 'the Rozzers' down the side.... something like that!!
I'd probably pull you over if you had "The Rozzers" down the side!! I've never really liked that bit of slang!! ;D
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Oh well, we know its not illegal to write things on your car so it'll be less offensive as possible. If we do find one then I'll put some pictures up of what we have done. We are thinking of getting a PA/megaphone system from ebay (which includes 5 animal noises!) and some strobes for the grill..... We are just doing it for a laugh so if there are any other suggestions, fire away...!
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Likng the animal noise idea!! ;D
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Get a red one, you then have 3 choises,
1, Dukes of hazzerd
2, Starskie and Hutch
3, A german fire Service car needs Feuerwehr on the sides.
or a green and white mig as polizie they also have silver with a thick blue stripe down the side for the autobahn.
was just a thought
post some pics of the car when you have made up your mind what you will do :y
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Put "The Filf" down the side, if you dont get pulled with that on it you never will.........
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Get a red one, you then have 3 choises,
1, Dukes of hazzerd
2, Starskie and Hutch
3, A german fire Service car needs Feuerwehr on the sides.
or a green and white mig as polizie they also have silver with a thick blue stripe down the side for the autobahn.
was just a thought
post some pics of the car when you have made up your mind what you will do :y
Dukes Of Hazzard out of that lot, would go Smokey and the Bandit myself......all black with gold pinstripe detail and the golden eagle on the bonnet, plus big CB aerials.......
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Get a red one, you then have 3 choises,
1, Dukes of hazzerd
2, Starskie and Hutch
3, A german fire Service car needs Feuerwehr on the sides.
or a green and white mig as polizie they also have silver with a thick blue stripe down the side for the autobahn.
was just a thought
post some pics of the car when you have made up your mind what you will do :y
Dukes Of Hazzard out of that lot, would go Smokey and the Bandit myself......all black with gold pinstripe detail and the golden eagle on the bonnet, plus big CB aerials.......
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Sounds good BUT you would need someone in a wedding dress and a convertible for that. Lol
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Get a red one, you then have 3 choises,
1, Dukes of hazzerd
2, Starskie and Hutch
3, A german fire Service car needs Feuerwehr on the sides.
or a green and white mig as polizie they also have silver with a thick blue stripe down the side for the autobahn.
was just a thought
post some pics of the car when you have made up your mind what you will do :y
Dukes Of Hazzard out of that lot, would go Smokey and the Bandit myself......all black with gold pinstripe detail and the golden eagle on the bonnet, plus big CB aerials.......
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Sounds good BUT you would need someone in a wedding dress and a convertible for that. Lol
Its a bloody stag do mate, I am sure one of you guys would love to wear a wedding dress for the jaunt.........!!!
Second hand shops do em for around £30_
It would be a good laugh !!
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That is one of our many top gear style challenges to wear the clothes to suit the cars age.....! (Im liking the wedding dress idea though!!)
We did initially want a Jag with tweed jackets and flat caps but we think it might be a little out of our budget considering we all wanted the 4 litre XJ6!
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lol good luck with the project but next time find a very decent facelift 2.5td, manual and only use whitewash so it comes off easily and i will meet you in valncia and buy the car!!! :y
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similar to our little trip in an Omega! See my Frank the Ramshackle Omega thread... We got ours for £150 but didn't have MOT or tax.
When you've done your trip let me know as I can probably get one of my fellow ramshacklers to buy it off you. At least they won't care if it's painted up etc. Obviously they can only give £150 though.
One of our convoy last year did the police theme by painting the car white and blue and writing "The Law" on the sides and back. Didn't have any issues at all with the BIB.
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Right guys, we have our Omega for the Stag do now (3.0 Elite) and i must say, it is amazing. So... we are now trying to find out how legal we are with the stickers that are planned for it. The car already has the orange hatchings on the back (Its a saloon by the way). We are planning some orange and dayglow yellow on the sides but dont know what pattern to use to look legal..ish.
Being mostly orange i cant see a big problem but we want to make it stand out. It does have STAG DO PACE/SAFETY CAR written down both sides below the bump strips in bright orange and OD GATS on the bonnet (STAG DO) in reverse.
Obviously we dont have blue flashing lights or anything.
So do you think we are ok to put an orange stripe down it with some dayglow yellow dotted over the car?
The car is Silver by the way.
I hope someone will know of the legalities.
Thanks for any help guys.
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Sorry chaps, i replied to my old post and didnt realise it was in the sale section. It can be removed if someone has the authority. Sorry. Newbies eh. tut tut
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Sorry chaps, i replied to my old post and didnt realise it was in the sale section. It can be removed if someone has the authority. Sorry. Newbies eh. tut tut
You can delete your own posts if required. :y
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got any pics of your car? would love to see it
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Just a quick update, It too 1440 miles (£260 in fuel) over 4 days, the Elite made it a breeze to be honest and all 4 of us are really reluctant to let it go!!!
Even the 3 wheeler that went made it with out too much trouble.
(Pics tonight hopefully!)
Now planning a trip round europe, but we would really like an MV6 now!!!
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Some pictures from others.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/dazzyjeff/Omega/mega1.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/dazzyjeff/Omega/mega.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/dazzyjeff/Omega/mega2.jpg
Dont know if these links will work?
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they work and look good :y
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As the OP has purchased the car, the 'wanted ad' is no longer required.
Moving to gen car chat to share the pics and get more comments.... :y
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looks like you had a good time. :y