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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 12/09/2015 at 08:00 • Filed to: Opel, Vauxhall, Daewoo, Holden, Chevrolet, Royale, Commodore, senator, Rekord

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FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/09/2015 at 08:38

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Me like

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/10/2015 at 07:24

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Well they certainly got the mileage out of the design.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 12/10/2015 at 07:28

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you’re not wrong there.

Holden stopped using it in 1988.

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/10/2015 at 07:47

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The Vauxhall Royale/Opel Senator stopped in 86.

It was certainly a car of it’s time, flat panels, hard edges, large engine to get going (the Royale above is a 1981 Royale with a 2,784cc engine).

I’m sure the aussies, kiwis, yanks and canucks got larger more powerful engines but for us pomms it seems large by modern day car engine sizes.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 12/10/2015 at 07:54

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biggest we had was 5,044cc (308ci) V8

:)

also had 4.2L (253ci) V8 , 3.3l L6 2.85L L6 , Nissan RB20 , RB30 , RB30ET , and the truly woeful Starfire 4cyl 1.9L aka Backfire4 / Missfire4

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/10/2015 at 08:03

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Largest for us was 3 litres.

505 - morphine not found > pip bip - choose Corrour 12/10/2015 at 08:24

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the Opel trilogy looked like this:

- Short nose / 4cyl motors / live axle rear = Record

- Long nose / 6cyl motors / live axle rear = Commodore

- Long nose and longer wheelbase / 6cyl motors / IRS = Senator

Also, there was the Monza coupé, which was a Senator in every respect, but on the Record wheelbase. A very interesting car, and one i have driven once. This is the facelift, but it started with the front you pictured:

I think the Vauxhal lineup was exactly the same. However, I read somewhere, that when they shipped a Commodre to the Holden guys in OZ, and they took it to the outback for testing, the nose sheared off. Ayep. So those no-nonsense guys down under got some work under the skin too, therefore the Holden Commodore is bespoke in a lot of respects, not just the V8 engines.

pip bip - choose Corrour > 505 - morphine not found 12/11/2015 at 05:02

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i story i’ve heard , is they took a bunch of cars somewhere , set up the equipment in them , drove off along the road , sent the numbers back to Opel in Germany , the Germans didn’t believe it , so they did the test again , same result , Germans eventually came down under set up the equipment , did the test saw the result and just couldn’t believe the figures.