Faker Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Ladies and gents... boys and girls... I give you the Carroll Shelby Dodge Omni... AKA a lotus - cosworth developed 2.2 turbo Chrysler Horizon!!! Holy foook!! This post should really be in the cars you didn't know existed thread... but I felt it deserved its own thread. Squire_Dawson, Dirk Diggler, Bag'O'Spanners and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Those bumpers though!! Faker, Squire_Dawson, John F and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispian_J_Hotson Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Safety first. When you hit a ped at eleventy kazillion miles per hour, they may survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Somewhere I have a brochure for those - came as part of the paperwork when I bought a Dodge 600 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I get the feeling Carrol Shelby would have put his name to syphilis if there had been a few quid in it for him That is a handsome looking car though ! The Moog, richardthestag, GrumpiusMaximus and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I get the feeling Carrol Shelby would have put his name to syphilis if there had been a few quid in it for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 This post should really be in the cars you didn't know existed thread... but I felt it deserved its own thread. Worth adding another if you don't know this either: Dodge Shelby Charger GLHS In other words, the Omni Coupe. The body style that Talbot Horizon buyers never got to see. Uncle Jimmy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Speaking of mental Horizons: https://rallygroupbshrine.org/the-group-b-cars/group-b-prototypes/talbot-horizon/ OwdChina, Aston Martin, Faker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 There was a Shelby Dodge Dakota too: oldcars 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Whens it into Southampton then...? Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Turbot and a bumper deep enough to carry your shopping home on; winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Needs importing and Horizonificating to remove the Jay Leno's chin spec bumpers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 I don't know why the Horizon was so maligned. Wasn't actually a bad car. Can drop a 1.9 XU Pez engine in it........ Popular motor in the states. Ultimate giffer wagon over here in 1.1LE spec.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Fairly certain hot wheels made a model of this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 You can get a 1/24 model of these from the States. It might be a Plymouth Horizon but the sentiment is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 Wasn't there a guy in the US who had a Horizon in blue with the registation BEYOND. AMC Rebel and PhilA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 17, 2018 Share Posted April 17, 2018 tooSavvy, Shep Shepherd and warren t claim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I don't know why the Horizon was so maligned. Wasn't actually a bad car. Can drop a 1.9 XU Pez engine in it........ Popular motor in the states. Ultimate giffer wagon over here in 1.1LE spec.... It did win COTY. But British buyers heard the castanets and left them alone Granted, if they actually had done a Horizon 1.6 Rallye over in France, it might have caught on. But Sunbeam Ti wasn't selling in great enough numbers over this way as it was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I don't think the American Omni is related to the European Horizon in any way, mechanically or structurally. I'm not even sure any of the panels are interchangeable. I don't know if this makes the American ones better (unlikely) or worse (almost certainly) or what but it does seem a strange way of going about things. Junkman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Looks like a standard Horizon was raped by a Saab 99... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Pretty sure a friend of mine had one of these. Will check. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatharris Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 He didn't. He did have one of these though. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk mk2_craig, danthecapriman, HillmanImp and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 I don't think the American Omni is related to the European Horizon in any way, mechanically or structurally. I'm not even sure any of the panels are interchangeable. I don't know if this makes the American ones better (unlikely) or worse (almost certainly) or what but it does seem a strange way of going about things. That would be correct, sir.The French Horizon has torsion bar suspension for a start, while the septic one has McPherson struts.And as you say, no body panels are interchangeable and the body structures are completely different.Safety, you know. Looks are deceiving. Those are completely different cars stem to stern. As for models, there are the Motor Max 1/24 diecasts of the saloons: With relatively little work they could be made into GLHs, with a lot of work into Simca/Talbots. AMT made promos and kits of the Horizon coupe in 1/25: MPC of the Dodge Omni: And of the Shelby Charger: And of the Daytona: Also Shelby Daytona: So did Monogram in 1/24: Uncle Jimmy, Burnside, Datsuncog and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Oh, and sadly no models were made of the Plymouth Rampage/Dodge Scamp pickups,despite those sure qualify for the upper echelons of shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 diecasts of the saloons: I should hope not. They all have hatchbacks overrun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Hatchback saloons, as opposed to hatchback coupes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 He didn't. He did have one of these though. Was alive until 2012 but not taxed (or SORNed even) since Still, that's not that long ago. I wonder where it is. WLTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs6C Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 GHLS - Goes Like Hot Stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Shelbyese Lexicon CLX = Carroll Shelby eXperimentalGLH = Goes Like HellGHLS = Goes Like Hell S'moreKR = King of the RoadSS = Super SnakeDS = Dragon Snake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Plymouth is Chrysler speak for even cheaper than the Dodge....... http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-american/curbside-classics-plymouth-horizon-and-dodge-omni-detroit-finally-builds-a-proper-small-car/ Junkman and Burnside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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