Motoring Discussion > Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 11:58 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Zero
And the child, the dogs, mortgage the house, you wont regret it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPB6dSd9M3Y&ab_channel=MathewsonsClassicCarsLimited

Lord knows what this will go for.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 12:06 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Zero
Estimating 80-90£k. It will make that and more.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 12:23 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Fullchat
Kidney territory :)
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 14:04 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - carmalade
Seriously quick and rarer than a sierra cosworth. You’ll need both feet to push the clutch down on this 6 speed Corvette gearbox.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 17:05 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Manatee
I loved the Carltons, one of my favourite cars was a 2 litre CD estate I had for a while in 1989/90. Plenty fast enough for me, I think those 8 valve horsepowers were better than the later 16 valve ones on the Omegas somehow. I think I'd buy one now if I could. The estate had manual rear suspension levelling, that I thought very amusing - you just connected an airline and blew it up.

autocatalogarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Vauxhall-Carlton-Estate-1986-UK.pdf

Mine was gold.

Probably wouldn't want to run the Lotus Carlton, and it's quite possible it that being so good, and valuable, it will be preserved rather than used.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 17:08 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Fullchat
We ran 24V Senators back in the day. There would be some similarities with the Carlton. They were quite a beast and 150MPH + was achievable - allegedly.
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New Sat 1 Feb 25 17:22 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Manatee
Same platform I think, although the body was different. I quite fancied one of those but it was out of my reach. And I liked my estate.

Thinking about it, it probably went so well with 115hp because cars didn't weigh very much then. About 1300Kg I think, very little more than our Roomster.
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New Sun 2 Feb 25 00:17 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - smokie
Yep I bought a Senator 2.4 after a run out in a police 3.0. Later upgraded to an Omega MV6 (3.0l) which did reach 150 (on the autobahn of course) but the fuel needle dropped sooo quickly! At times it felt like a tank but it handled really well, like it was on rails. Also had beautiful Irmscher alloys - this is the best pic I can find - they looked better IRL!! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254209493805
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New Sun 2 Feb 25 18:11 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - R.P.
A neighbour had one in the 90s. He called it the flying fag packet (you may get that reference) he chopped it for a Honda NSX (one of two in the neighbourhood) a little more subtle.
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New Sun 2 Feb 25 20:17 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - legacylad
How I lusted after an NSX. Preferably red. Back in 90s, pre unpleasantness, I could have afforded one.
Post unpleasantness I treated myself to a new Mk1 Elise ( R575 GYG) as an NXS was a long way out of my budget, even renting in Keighley !!
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New Mon 3 Feb 25 12:52 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - R.P.
One of the NSXs was owned by quite a well known business man with defence contracts....
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New Fri 7 Feb 25 08:57 
 Vauxhall Carlton - Sell the wife, buy the car. - Zero
The Lotus sold away for 72k£
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