My mums friend had one back in the 90s and every weekend we went shopping in it me and mums friends kids. Great car

This car may have been a taxi for a short while, and the blue switch and unknown wiring may have been for signage/radio. However,a mileage of 112k is rather low for a taxi. My old taxi, Peugeot 406diesel declared on 451k, and was still running well. Only a broken timing belt at 180k blotted it's it's copy book. It was still capable of being motd and ran for a couple of years. Instead,it was plundered for parts. Great review btw!

@ruthsutton2416

4 жыл бұрын

This ones got a tow bar, so I recon the original owner may have wired up an aditional fan for while towing. Not that ive found one, but its possible. Its too clean inside to have been a taxi. No screw holes on bumpers, however the left side of the centre console has a lot of holes in it. Its on 118k now and still going strong. Only thing ive done to it is put a set of diplomat alloys on.

Ah yes, the old 'Turbo Intercooler' boot badges adorned the early 1990s turbo diesel Vauxhalls. Great car.

Ive always loved the Carlton since my dad had a couple in my early childhood. As a result, ive put a deposit down on one myself. A Diplomat no less. Cant wait to join the retro daily mob :)

I'm loving this content, I feel the same about older cars, love the sticker on the back😂👍

Excellent job. Ive owned three carltons . My first one cost me £150 off eBay and i fell in love with it , then i had the cdx 2.0 ltr estate , and my last one was the Diplomat 2.0 ltr and it was beautiful. My family and I went every where in it all over the country. Then after nearly four years of motoring the automatic gearbox gave up the thrust convertor was burnt out . And it would have cost me the car three times over to get fixed . So I bought an Omega 2.5 V6 CDX , and kept the carlton hoping one day i could afford to fix it , which never happened unfortunately. She now lives in Vauxhall heaven 😭

@retrodailys7183

5 жыл бұрын

could of parted it out or sold it for just over scrap value. (all of the things i assume you thought of) you never know who may have the gearbox laying about and sees it on ebay. but sometimes the scrapyard is the only way...

@jamiehall63

4 жыл бұрын

Ive just put a deposit down on a 2 litre Carlton Diplomat. Partially because my dad used to own one and partially because of this video. Im going to be converting to a retro daily too

Considering it hit the design drawing board around 1981 it was quite advanced in it's time - Ford were still flogging the Cortina. I have a 1993 2.0 Diplomat manual that I've owned since 1999, it has done 278k on the original engine/gearbox/clutch. It never failed on rust until 2018 - at 25 years old.

I live in Bulgaria. My father used to have an Opel Omega wich is the same as the Carlton. It was a 2.3 TDI 100hp. And it was automatic. So I gues that Opel had the automatic option back in the day. Great car. Great video.

Very nice car, my mates dad had one of these in white

Oh, ya cheeky bugger !.. I'm from Birkenhead and we DO have the Internet over here ! - Great cars those MK3 Vauxhall Carltons & Senators !

I absolutely love the intro to your videos with the Volvo spinning off looks cool as f*ck!

@retrodailys7183

6 жыл бұрын

banjo bob Dont do things by half me Bob

It looks very much like you were in Fenton.

U can buy parts of these cars in south america, mainly in brazil. They got huge success over there.

Beautiful car, also I'm sure this is, or near, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, could be wrong, my ex lived there for a while

My dad had 2 Carlton’s. An f plate 2.0i GL and K plate 20i CDX. Although the CDX was better spec the GL was faster and lasted better.

yeah had a 2.0i auto. (petrol) loved it.

@mikesully110

4 жыл бұрын

beast, my dad had the 2.0 auto petrol also, E reg. I was around 12 at the time, I remember it looking like a luxury car at the time lol. He has a jag now. I ended buying an Astra but it just wasn't the same

Igual o omega aqui do Brasil, só que os nossos são 6cc 4.1 em linha. Vídeo muito top 👏👏

@andreees9760

3 жыл бұрын

Da uma olhada ao Lotus Carlton

The Diesel has more torque that's how it won this drag race.

The good old Carlton .owned 2, a 1.8 then a 2.0 both estates. Great old barges. The reason it won the drag race was aerodynamics 😂😂. Jk . lol

@retrodailys7183

6 жыл бұрын

Gaz Partridge its because the Red Leader is slow as mud! haha

keep an old car on the road.

I've motd worse 😆💪