Mega early bank holiday collection!

[rantingYoof]

MUCH EXCITE. SO SHITE. MANY HYPE.

 

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[fatharris]

Bristol has been and gone, poo count to 2, tried buying chewing gum and the self service machine threw a wobbly.

 

Hopefully not ominous.

 

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[Cavcraft]

A Greek/German estate? You've bought Windsor Castle?

[fatharris]

It's right up your street Billy.

 

Newport achieved, cheeky little sprint to catch the next train!

 

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[Cavcraft]

Is it you heading to Shropshire? 

[83C]

Heading to Oswestry?

[fatharris]

Aye, the jig is almost up!

 

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[Cavcraft]

Just spotted it. Bloody good buy that.

[fatharris]

Wish my friends, family and colleagues would agree, those of the Shite persuasion understand, the rest of them think I've taken leave of my senses.

 

Just spotted a sunroof in the advert pictures, which will come in handy today, it's ruddy gorgeous out there, getting more and more excited to pick this up now!

 

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[rantingYoof]

It will all go well. When it all goes well it'll be a frugal and very relaxing cruise back to your end of the country.

 

[fatharris]

Not daft though, I booked the temporary insurance with breakdown cover for an extra £3 just in case.

 

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[Supernaut]

Vauxhall Omega estate.

 

Diesel, for the German part.

 

 

(I was already thinking about an Omega estate, but then you mentioned Greek and that totally gave it away).

[fatharris]

It is indeed, just over an hour to go before I meet the sellers brother who is picking me up from the station in... An Omega saloon!

 

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[Supernaut]

Is it manual or auto?

 

If it's a manual, I hate you. Those straight 6 diesels sound awesome!

[rantingYoof]

My research* reliably informs me that the Omega saloon is possibly a silver Elite. At least it has an Elite spoiler, so unless it's a Reflection special edition which came with the same spoiler UR IN 4 A TREET M9.

 

I am in no way F5ing this thread.

[fatharris]

Is it manual or auto?

 

If it's a manual, I hate you. Those straight 6 diesels sound awesome!

Hate away, 5 on the floor!

 

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[Supernaut]

Hate away, 5 on the floor!

 

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Jammy, jammy, utter bastard!

[Cavcraft]

The best diesl engine they had, later (2.2) ones not as good imho. Getting the train to Oswestry is a nightmare, as the station (Gobowen) is a few miles away, iirc. Is the car at Bank Top Industrial Estate? The units look very familiar.

[andy18s]

If it is Bank Top Industrial Estate then that's completely the other way from Gobowen station.

It's on the outskirts of the village St Martin's,which is halfway between Oswestry and Chirk...

[fatharris]

It's at Rednal Industrial estate.

 

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[omegod]

Ooooh another Omega creeps onto the forum, I have a humungous stash of parts for these if you need owt 

[andy18s]

It's at Rednal Industrial estate.

 

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That's where Linstrand and Branson put the high altitude balloon together all those years ago in a large airship hanger

May still be there as it's a privately owned airstrip

[Jim Bell]

.

 

 

He is a creature of the wheel (s)

 

Well done man. Looks canny.

[Lacquer Peel]

German influence? They're made in Germany by a German company FFS!

Do like

[Pillock]

For the record, posting a picture of the purchase price was what led me straight to the car in question - there were only a handful of cars finished at £320 this month and this was the only one that day. You shouldn't have told me you were changed going trains as I was a bit confused at that point!

 

Looks nice though. I'm assuming it's not the ex Wobbler one?

[Cavcraft]

That's where Linstrand and Branson put the high altitude balloon together all those years ago in a large airship hanger

May still be there as it's a privately owned airstrip

 

There was a track day place there for go-karts, iirc. There was also a Volvo specialist with a decent collection of old choddy ones outside, plus a couple of 1970's Scanias not too far away. Did you ever go to the bike breakers on Bank Top, Andy?

 

*Soz for thread hijack  

[chaseracer]

Looks nice though. I'm assuming it's not the ex Wobbler one?

 

Nope.  Peter Simpson out of not-TV's CCW has got that one in Lincolnshire.

[fatharris]

 

WOOLLARDING ACHIEVED

 

 

CAR FILLED

 

 

Time to fill myself now.

 

Will report back later, but I'm chuffed.

 

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[Guest Hooli]

Driftastic yo!

[dougiefourspeed]

Some good work going on here. I wanted an Omega ever since I used to watch them on Road Wars, usually at about 2 AM when I'd come back from the pub half cut. I always thought those V6's sounded great chasing a nicked moped round some awful industrial estate in Slough.

 

Closest I ever came was a Vectra GSi. Nice car but not quite the same.

 

Top purchasing anyway, the 2.5 derv is meant to be GR31!