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Title: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 10:12:26
This oddity!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAUXHALL-CARLTON-3-0-ESTATE-/291778703140?hash=item43ef5daf24:g:JlgAAOSwNsdXTbJX

Now this, to all intents and purposes is the one-off Viceroy Estate, made for the Queen - but that's documented, known of vehicle owned by an EBS clubmember. So this would appear to literally be a Carlton estate with a Royale front end. Odd!  :)
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: aaronjb on 27 June 2016, 10:31:06
oddity
ˈɒdɪti/Submit
noun
a strange or peculiar person or thing.
"she was regarded as a bit of an oddity"
synonyms:   eccentric, crank, misfit, fish out of water, square peg in a round hole, round peg in a square hole, maverick, nonconformist, original, rare bird; More


Well, it's definitely that. It also appears to have fallen out of the ugly tree.
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 10:47:28
just think of it as a Monza Estate...   :y
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Entwood on 27 June 2016, 10:48:21
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "cut and shut" ........     :)
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Nick W on 27 June 2016, 10:57:59
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "cut and shut" ........     :)

Hardly, it's bolt on panels. Makes it a Vauxhall Carlyle ;D A cut and shut would be the two door Viva with a  mk2 Golf front end I saw at the Chelsea cruise 25 years ago. Very strange car.
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 11:27:08
You can do (and has been done, of course) the same with Carlton and Senny B  :)
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 13:38:13
This one, on the other hand, will make you all wet with excitement....

https://www.facebook.com/OpelOmegaFans/photos/a.201553090039799.1073741828.201522040042904/496741700520935/?type=3&theater
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: aaronjb on 27 June 2016, 14:12:24
Why, just .. why?

This works, though: https://www.facebook.com/OpelOmegaFans/photos/pb.201522040042904.-2207520000.1467033127./495347017327070/?type=3&theater
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 14:22:25
I bet that can suck good.
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 27 June 2016, 14:35:17
I bet that can suck good.

You are talking about the turbocharger, right? :o
Title: Re: One for the ABS...
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 June 2016, 14:39:43
What else?  :)