Talk to me about carltons

[pork]

I'm devolving a need for a Vauxhall Carlton

Please help me by adding cool pics of them and any info I need to consider when buying one

Got a sort of point and squirt muscle car theme going on in my head lol

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My old 2ltr petrol..
Loved that car watch out for rot in rear arches frony footwells and inner wing to bulkhead...
This was on air back in 1999 i think it was....
Id have another tommorrow the 2.3td is well worth a look I had one bought from castle cabs with 400 thousand miles and I put 90k on it..


This was my first bagged carlton the 2.3td..

I ducked about on photo shop with the doors and swage lines but you really can get them this low...

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[pork]

Awesome ! Seen these pics on google a few times now

You got links to builds and stuff?

What about engines, do they hold up to a bit of boost?

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No build threads unfotunatley they are pretty straight forward to mod,

The red estate was a 2ltr 130 ohv engine tied to an auto box it went well, they are a strong motor so don't see why turbo charging one wouldnt work well.

I have seen a combat cammo painted estate on here runing a charged let motor and that went verry well...

Strong solid cars build in germany twice the car the omega is....

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This one

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Have a look here,

[pork]

Read that a few times now

There's a champagne coloured estate on gumtree now with the wide bornet wheels, real nice but it's an auto, would like a manual

My cousin used to live in his old white saloon,,he abused it and just kept kicking .

I used to hate the shape, but just recently seen them in a new light.

Just found the total Carlton forum too lol

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Yeah meant to mention totalcarlton look up my user name on that forum there might be some info on my air setups...

[pistonpopper]

Apr 29, 2016 6:28:21 GMT pork said:

There's a champagne coloured estate on gumtree now with the wide bornet wheels, real nice

Is it this one?..



If it is that used to be mine, It is a very nice car, it's been quite well looked after, and had a few subtle mods done to it. You can read about what it was like when it was mine here and there's a few more photos of it there as well. I wouldn't say it was particularly fast, but i never had any trouble keeping up with traffic in it, and it was an excellent, and very comfortable cruiser. It belongs to beamer121 of this parish now, send him a message and ask him about it.

[pork]

That's the one

Il have a read of that too

Would prefer a saloon rho

[fordperv]

Do you Want to buy a slightly older one??

If so pm sutty2006 on here he has one that I'm sure he'd sell

autoshite.com/topic/23347-1985-vauxhall-carlton-%C2%A3350/

Not sure of what he would want for it as he's done the welding now

[sutty2006]

I'm at donnington raceway currently but I've got two a mk2 rekord 2.2 and a mk2 carlton 2.0

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One of those cars that seem to have some pretty die-hard fans, that seems to have had dozens, and yet i find myself thinking them pretty uninteresting and dull. I've chopped up two for parts.. They are allright to drive and all that tho (and i'm getting a 24v 3000 one this summer lol) I've always preferred the Senator B for looks

[pork]

What's the one to go for then, I do wanna mess about with the engine, so which one is not worth breathing on?

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I'd say stick to the 3 litre versions. The 24v is a lot better than the 12v too. Although, a c20let from a calibra turbo drops right into a 2.0 one

[sutty2006]

3.0 24v all the way

[pork]

Many thanks, on the look out now

[pork]

Any info about regarding suspension/ride height?

Done usual searches but not turn up anything definitive

Have registered with total Carlton but they havnt accepted yet so can't post on there site

[pork]

Is anyone a member of total Carlton?

I've registered but still haven't had my request approved so can't post, been ages!!

So if someone could give the admin a buzz for us