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[Shackeng]

The dealer in the background is 'Wyverns' - which was a 1940s/50s Vauxhall, and the medium-to-large-ish saloon of the day, but with lower spec and a smaller engine. So like an Omega Select/GLS 2.0/2.2 today :-)



After I got googling 1950s cars I sort of got distracted... 

The Velox was the bigger engined one. Lovely car to drive.

[TheBoy]

Methinks he refers to it being a 3.0 litre facelift ... petrol Facelifts should be either 2.6 or 3.2, V reg is the earliest facelifts came out so that bit could be right.

Josh's guide

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=90488.0

seems to agree with my recollection, but I could be wrong....

EDIT:

just found this ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Omega

which shows, some way down, that the 3.0 litre was produced as a facelift for a few months from end of 99 to early 2000 ... so could be correct after all.

The inferior, loved-by-the-tree-hugging-hippies, DBW V6s didn't come in until model year 2001, so all MY2000 V6s had the superior, quicker, more economical 2.5/3.0 variants...

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Agreed!!

And to Shackeng, quite true 

Dusting off my brain cells now, the... Velox got (I think) the 2 1/4 litre straight six, Wyverns had the 4 cyl 1.5, (later used in the F Victor, which replaced Wyvern as entry level model) and the even-higher spec model, the Cresta appeared a couple of years before the end of the E Series.

Also PFLs with proper cable throttles are most definintely the best