Omni
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12/18/20 12:30 PM
12/18/20 12:30 PM
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Posts: 34,870
S.E. South Dakota !
bigdad
OP
Still Posting A Lot
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OP
Still Posting A Lot
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 34,870
S.E. South Dakota !
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I took this picture in Houston .. 2000- 2001
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Omni
[Re: bigdad]
#2861928
12/18/20 08:08 PM
12/18/20 08:08 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 701
Northern California
lilcuda
super stock
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super stock
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 701
Northern California
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Cool. I love those cars even though they are complete turds. My brother owned a pair of non-turbo cars. One was an 84 and the other was an 85. They were like go carts with bodies on them. I was selling them for my brother while he was at sea and I finally had to stop driving them when I was blasting up a twisty mountain road and came around a corner too fast and the rear end stepped out about 45 degrees to my direction of travel. A bicyclist was coming down the hill the other way and fortunately I didn't take him out. I took it home and parked it after that and only drove for test drives to sell it.
'67 is an abbreviation of 1967
67' is an abbreviation of 67 feet
They are not interchangeable.
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Re: Omni
[Re: bigdad]
#2861930
12/18/20 08:17 PM
12/18/20 08:17 PM
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Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,999
Salem
Grizzly
Moparts Proctologist
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Moparts Proctologist
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 5,999
Salem
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I took this picture in Houston .. 2000- 2001
How were you able to get the herd of admirers away from it long enough to snap that photo?
Mo' Farts
Moderated by "tbagger".
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Re: Omni
[Re: dOc !]
#2861951
12/18/20 09:05 PM
12/18/20 09:05 PM
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Posts: 10,537
Freeport IL USA
poorboy
I Live Here
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I Live Here
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 10,537
Freeport IL USA
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The GLH cars were fun. I was working at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer when they came out. The Shelby Chargers were fun car too when they first came out.
The dealership I worked at had a sister Dodge dealership. One day, the transport truck dropped off a new Shelby Charger, and I had to do the new car inspection on it. When the SM handed me the key, he told me to be sure to run it out pretty hard on the test drive, this car was the owner's 3rd Shelby, he had wrecked the 1st two, and they had only been out about 4 months! We had a circuit we ran the cars around when we did a test drive, in case something happened, they would know where to look for us. The circuit had a long up hill stretch with a slight S at the top. Turbo cars could gain about 5mph if it didn't down shift, EFI cars would maintain the speed (about 55 mph at the top of the hill), and the carbed cars would loose about 5 mph on that hill. The Shelby whistled right up the hill in 5th gear at about 65 mph, and just as it reached the slight S, the turbo kicked in and the front wheel drive car broke the tires loose and kicked the car sideways, in the wrong direction! By the time I got back to the dealership, I had a full new respect for the guy that had already wrecked two of those cars. When I told the SM about my experience he just laughed. Later that day, he came past me with a slightly white face, seems he thought he needed to take the Shelby out for a test drive as well. I laughed at him!. Gene
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Re: Omni
[Re: poorboy]
#2862148
12/19/20 01:58 PM
12/19/20 01:58 PM
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Posts: 15,823
Central Florida
larrymopar360
Stud Muffin
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Stud Muffin
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 15,823
Central Florida
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I love it! People who are calling them turds; 80's cars were practically ALL turds. And that includes Vettes, Firebirds, Craparos and all. So an Omni was an okay car FOR THE TIME, and especially if you had a GLH. I'd take it over the extremely poorly constructed Craparo and a lot of other cars of that era. (Just not my Diplomat AHB  )
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Omni
[Re: larrymopar360]
#2862155
12/19/20 02:10 PM
12/19/20 02:10 PM
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Joined: May 2019
Posts: 6,221
nowhere
Sniper
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master
Joined: May 2019
Posts: 6,221
nowhere
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I love it! People who are calling them turds; 80's cars were practically ALL turds. And that includes Vettes, Firebirds, Craparos and all. So an Omni was an okay car FOR THE TIME, and especially if you had a GLH. I'd take it over the extremely poorly constructed Craparo and a lot of other cars of that era. (Just not my Diplomat AHB ) My old man had an 80 Malibu I borrowed on occasion in HS. The most important aspect of any car back then, for me, was the size of the back seat. In that aspect the Malibu beats everything you listed, except the M body.
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Re: Omni
[Re: moparx]
#2862204
12/19/20 04:16 PM
12/19/20 04:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 9,719
Home
SRT6776
I hate internal combustion engines!
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I hate internal combustion engines!
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 9,719
Home
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Re: Omni
[Re: poorboy]
#2862280
12/19/20 07:23 PM
12/19/20 07:23 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 43,517
Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy
Rhinodart
Rhinotruck
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Rhinotruck
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 43,517
Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy
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The GLH cars were fun. I was working at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer when they came out. The Shelby Chargers were fun car too when they first came out.
The dealership I worked at had a sister Dodge dealership. One day, the transport truck dropped off a new Shelby Charger, and I had to do the new car inspection on it. When the SM handed me the key, he told me to be sure to run it out pretty hard on the test drive, this car was the owner's 3rd Shelby, he had wrecked the 1st two, and they had only been out about 4 months! We had a circuit we ran the cars around when we did a test drive, in case something happened, they would know where to look for us. The circuit had a long up hill stretch with a slight S at the top. Turbo cars could gain about 5mph if it didn't down shift, EFI cars would maintain the speed (about 55 mph at the top of the hill), and the carbed cars would loose about 5 mph on that hill. The Shelby whistled right up the hill in 5th gear at about 65 mph, and just as it reached the slight S, the turbo kicked in and the front wheel drive car broke the tires loose and kicked the car sideways, in the wrong direction! By the time I got back to the dealership, I had a full new respect for the guy that had already wrecked two of those cars. When I told the SM about my experience he just laughed. Later that day, he came past me with a slightly white face, seems he thought he needed to take the Shelby out for a test drive as well. I laughed at him!. Gene We still have our 85 Shelby Charger, wife drove it everyday for 10 years. There were 17 sold at the dealership we got ours from, by 1990 ours was the only one left according to the mechanic who put a head gasket in it... 
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
JB Rhinehart, Realist
A-Body's RULE!
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Re: Omni
[Re: dOc !]
#2862344
12/19/20 10:06 PM
12/19/20 10:06 PM
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Posts: 3,049
Bowling Green, KY
cudaboy
master
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master
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,049
Bowling Green, KY
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I had major  with a turbo car on Telegraph and Woodward back in the 90s ..,,  A high school buddy had a GLHS Omni we raced on Telegraph and some spots in Detroit in the late 80’s/early 90’s. I wonder if we were ever out there at the same time? Dennis
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Re: Omni
[Re: cudaboy]
#2862369
12/19/20 11:21 PM
12/19/20 11:21 PM
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Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 5,100
Western Md.
skicker
"The Champ"
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"The Champ"
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 5,100
Western Md.
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I had a black and silver Turbo Shelby in 85 that I bought new...
15.38 at 92 mph was the best it ever ran...
...FAFO...
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Re: Omni
[Re: bigdad]
#2862396
12/20/20 12:54 AM
12/20/20 12:54 AM
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Posts: 802
Houston, Texas
racerx20
Standard but OK
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Standard but OK
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 802
Houston, Texas
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I took this picture in Houston .. 2000- 2001
Funny that’s my buddy Steve from Dallas. He drove to my house back then for that race/show, I was there with my old 87 Shelby Z. Crazy the random things you find on the internet 😄👍.
1972 Road Runner
1988 Shelby CSX-T
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Re: Omni
[Re: JDMopar]
#2862506
12/20/20 12:58 PM
12/20/20 12:58 PM
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Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 34,870
S.E. South Dakota !
bigdad
OP
Still Posting A Lot
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OP
Still Posting A Lot
Joined: Feb 2004
Posts: 34,870
S.E. South Dakota !
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I took this picture in Houston .. 2000- 2001
But will it outrun a long roof Valiant?   Long delay but, work will commence again in 2021 ..
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Omni
[Re: cudaboy]
#2862578
12/20/20 03:43 PM
12/20/20 03:43 PM
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Posts: 30,424
Florida STAYcation
dOc !
The village idiot's idiot
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The village idiot's idiot
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 30,424
Florida STAYcation
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I had major with a turbo car on Telegraph and Woodward back in the 90s ..,, A high school buddy had a GLHS Omni we raced on Telegraph and some spots in Detroit in the late 80’s/early 90’s. I wonder if we were ever out there at the same time? Dennis This was in the mid 90s ..., I picked the car up from that Mother Waddles car donation lot ... pretty clean gold car .... Until I got side swiped in Detroit.... 
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