Subject: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
08/06/2008 @ 18:28:01: ingo: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
By surfing around, I've found out, that my Opel Omega B and my wife's Opel Astra G are visible at Google Earth!

Here's the link (hopefully it works):

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Edelrosenstrasse+17,+Aplerbeck+4- 4289+Dortmund,+Dortmund,+Nordrhein-Westfalen,+Deutschland&sll=51.472346,7.596337&sspn=0.000561,0.000952&ie=UTF8&ll=- 51.472654,7.596851&spn=0.00014,0.000238&t=h&z=22

I'm quite sure, that the pic was made on an Sunday in early spring 2005. The location was the apartment-house, where I lived until August 2005. No green trees and bushes, so early spring. 2005, because the Omega was bought in March 2004 and the Astra in September 2004. Sunday, because at that time my wife lived in annother town and only at weekends, she was with me.
08/06/2008 @ 18:59:32: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
:lol: That is quite neat ingo!
You can just see the white colored top of our '70 Volkswagen Bus in our driveway on google maps. (Sorry I cannot post a link, but I tried and it doesn't work)
Unfortunately, there are too many trees in the way to see any of our other six cars in the driveway. That's one of the bad things about living in Michigan, there's so many trees that obstruct the view of everything :ohwell:

Also, you really have an Opel Omega B? :love:
That is one of my favorite cars! It was sold here as Cadillac Catera from 1997-2001. But I prefer the Holden Commodore version, and even better the luxurious long wheelbase Holden Caprice :bave:

http://i29.tinypic.com/2882mog.jpg
08/06/2008 @ 19:03:08: antp: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Ingo >> The image quality in your area is nice. To make the link work you should add [url ] and [/url ] around it (without spaces).

Possibly my car on the parking of my workplace:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=004°18'17"+E+050°48'01"+N&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=- 1&ll=50.800708,4.303973&spn=0.000657,0.001452&z=20
the dark one in top left corner, at the side of the white one.
The "white" one is possibly the silver Lancia Ypsilon seen here behind my car:
http://antp.be/pic/206_20031013_s.jpg
appearing bigger due to light reflection
08/06/2008 @ 19:28:58: Gag Halfrunt: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
I can't see Ingo's cars, because Google Maps says it doesn't have imagery for the resolution required.
08/06/2008 @ 19:33:33: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
If you look to the left of antp's parking lot, you can see a train carrying new cars!
08/06/2008 @ 19:37:38: antp: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Yes, these are VW Golf and Audi A3 :smile:
I see these trains from my window.
The factory is near where I work, just across the freeway
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=004°18'17"+E+050°48'01"+N&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=- 1&ll=50.805772,4.30766&spn=0.005255,0.011619&z=17&iwloc=addr

Gag Halfrunt >> with the edited link in Ingo's message, it should now work
08/06/2008 @ 19:40:30: antp: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
And here is a photo taken from here:

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/1332/dscn070019um.th.jpg
08/06/2008 @ 19:42:54: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
That's pretty cool! It's interesting how the cars on the train are open so you can see them. Here car carriers are closed so you cannot see the contents inside unfortunately :sad:
08/06/2008 @ 19:48:28: antp: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
What I see from my window, you can see the cars on trains in far background:

http://img270.imageshack.us/img270/8692/fenetrebureau20051003panorama9.th.jpg
08/06/2008 @ 19:55:15: ingo: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
@Gag: do you can see it now? I've corrected the link and at my PC it works fine, even in the high resolution.
08/06/2008 @ 19:58:52: ingo: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
@antp: if you take a direct line Northeast from my cars, across the street on the right and the garden, you see a flat garage-building. Inside that, there are parked (unfortunately inside, when the pic was shot) a white 1968 Saab 96 and a red Sonett MK II. :wink:
08/06/2008 @ 20:12:04: CarChasesFanatic: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Also, you really have an Opel Omega B? :love:
That is one of my favorite cars! It was sold here as Cadillac Catera from 1997-2001. But I prefer the Holden Commodore version, and even better the luxurious long wheelbase Holden Caprice :bave:


I love Omegas too, the Omega A with the rear wheel half covered is lovely, not to mention the Caddy Catera... the Holden is not bad, its nice too but it changes too much from the original that it hardly resembles one, the other one i like a lot too is the Chevy Omega different front but still very similar to the Omega B, very nice.
08/06/2008 @ 20:16:45: antp: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
I like the Omega A & B too, as well as the Holden Commodore based on them. Especially the VT/VX in "sport" version (HSV)
08/06/2008 @ 20:17:04: ingo: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
@taxiguy and CCF: it's a version like that one, the difference is, that the NATO-olive-colour of my Omega is glossy and not matt:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=29518654&__lp=8&scopeId=C&sortOption.- sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.- makeId=19000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=20&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=fal- se&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=f- alse&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&fuel=DIESEL&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=- EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&customerIdsAsString=&categories=Lim- ousine&lang=de&pageNumber=3

@Animatronixx, are you here?

http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?id=2187834&__lp=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.- sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.- makeId=19000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=20&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=fal- se&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=f- alse&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&fuel=DIESEL&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=- EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&customerIdsAsString=&categories=Oth- erCar&lang=de&pageNumber=1
08/06/2008 @ 21:24:51: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)

the Holden is not bad, its nice too but it changes too much from the original that it hardly resembles one,


Well if you are refering to the Caprice than yes, it is quite different, but the smaller Commodore seems almost unchanged from the Euro Omega:

http://digiads.com.au/carsales/used-cars/car_ad_photos/digiads_car_ads_87318_1.jpg


the other one i like a lot too is the Chevy Omega different front but still very similar to the Omega B, very nice.


Chevrolet Omega? Where is this sold?

Did you know that there is another Omega/Commodore variant sold in the Middle East branded as the Chevrolet Lumina and Caprice? :love:

http://www.alghanim.com/Automotive/images/CAPRICE 2004.jpg

They even use the Lumina as a police car in Dubai (also note the 1991 Caprice in the background, those are popular there also :love: )

http://i30.tinypic.com/faqvm1.jpg

Here is an Arab commercial for the new Chevrolet Caprice Royale :bave: (based on the new Holden Caprice)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5qPgKkgM8
08/06/2008 @ 21:28:34: ingo: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)



Chevrolet Omega? Where is this sold?



In South America
08/06/2008 @ 21:36:35: CarChasesFanatic: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Hey i didnt know about the Caprice and the Lumina!! God they are cool too! :grin:
08/06/2008 @ 21:37:50: CarChasesFanatic: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Max, could you link me to the official Chevrolet site that lists both the Caprice and the Lumina?
08/06/2008 @ 21:41:35: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
Funny you should mention that, I was jsut about to post the link before you commented :grin:

Lumina
http://www.chevroletarabia.com/content_data/LAAM/ME/en/GBPME/001/G1/1L/1L_imageg- allery.html?cntryCd=SA

Caprice
http://www.chevroletarabia.com/content_data/LAAM/ME/en/GBPME/001/G1/1C/1C_home.h- tml?cntryCd=SA
08/06/2008 @ 21:43:44: taxiguy: Post pictures of your rides - from Google Earth ;)
The Caprice Royale is the best in my opinion, with its luxurious grill, hood ornamant, wheels, interior, etc... :bave:
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