Senator Die Cast

Diecast upgrade. Some minor tidying up to do, but it's 99% there. It's not top shelf fodder, but I can live with it. And it's another Opel in 1/25.
I just wish someone would do some Vauxhalls!

Fine looking upgrade, Chris. That's a great way to add hard to find models to your collection.

I remember them well, they were RHD Opels in Ireland too.

Did you get a Holden version?

dublin boy wrote:I remember them well, they were RHD Opels in Ireland too.

Did you get a Holden version?

Indeed we did. Local power train, with 4,6 or 8 cylinders. My wagon is based on the 3rd generation Opel.

They went well enough with a 180 hp straight six!

I believe you had the next generation Senators and then the Omegas, the shell looked identical to our versions, but was actually a few inches wider?

Great result, classy and I like the green a lot.

dublin boy wrote:They went well enough with a 180 hp straight six!

I believe you had the next generation Senators and then the Omegas, the shell looked identical to our versions, but was actually a few inches wider?

Yes, Shay. The VN Commodore of 1988 was widened over its Opel ancestor, ditto for the VT Commodore of 1998.
The last one will come off the assembly line later this year. They're going out with a bang, you can option up to
north of 400 KW if your pockets are deep enough,

Great result Chris. 

Nice restore and some real clean foil work .

I was reading an old English car mag this morning and found this gem.

When the second gen 24v straight 6 Senator went out of production, the UK traffic cops were given 3.0 V6 Omegas, they preferred the old ones, so the old shape production line was temporarily opened back up just for the boys in blue, apparantly another 300 were produced.

Useless information really

Very attractive to the eye.