Retro Dailys EP4 Vauxhall Carlton

[@grantmarshall3026]

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!

[@MummyMTBlife83]

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.

[@sundelight8230]

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

[@jamiehall63]

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 :)

[@mattw8332]

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

[@JayeDee_Gr4]

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]

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]

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

[@ziprok1]

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.

[@BITTYBOY121]

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

[@chrisparsons7043]

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.

[@ciaranburke3243]

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

[@timoakley4546]

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

[@banjobob9409]

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

[@retrodailys7183]

banjo bob Dont do things by half me Bob

[@j.wagner8639]

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

[@lanehogger1532]

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.

[@teague2287]

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

[@ianhand5006]

It looks very much like you were in Fenton.

[@guatavorsdgu6716]

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

[@andreees9760]

Da uma olhada ao Lotus Carlton

[@davidtunnicliff5442]

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

[@mikesully110]

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

[@gazp2194]

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]

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

[@BITTYBOY121]

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

[@pastytit]

keep an old car on the road.

[@d4ve587]

I've motd worse 😆💪