![]() Throw in about $1000 for gas to drive down and haul it back to Canada, I'm at $1700. With some help, I found another buyer for the nicest GT, and I bought another and some parts.īrand new seats: $200 for the pair (worth $350 each)īox of other parts (brand new interior): $100 (worth about $1000). If it wasn't gone by next week, he was hiring someone to haul it away for scrap metal. His brother (the executor of the will), wanted the garage empty so he could have somewhere to empty and go through boxes. I put word out that I was looking for a vehicle that didn't need to have an engine, and word of mouth led me to an estate sale in Phoenix.Ī gentleman had passed away several month ago and had 3 Opel GTs. So, I was looking for one in the desert in the US. ![]() ![]() Rust proofing was not as much of a thing back then, and most Canadian examples are rusted through or expensive. There's no motor, they flip open by the driver's muscles shoving a lever that you have to un-gently slam into place. My favorite feature of the GT are the flip-up headlights. Small, light, stylish and not the expensive kind of old, the unwanted kind of old. not great for modern cars, but combined with it's low frontal area (it's a small car), it's not going to have too high of power requirements to travel at highway speed. They were, at the time, the lowest drag car GM had ever built, with a drag coefficient of 0.35. It's the non-Corvette I didn't know existed. Turns out, the Opel GT has both of those elements. I liked the sloped backs on the C2s, but the curved fronts on the C3s. But there was never a year that had all the style features I wanted. The only car I've ever even shown slight interest in, for the style, are Corvette. The bodies were made in France, the engineering was done in America, and the assembly was done in what was West Germany at the time. ![]() They were only built for 4 years, almost 50 years ago, 1969-1973. Was designed by the same guy who later designed the C3 Corvette. Aka: "Half a Corvette" (half the weight, half the power) ![]()
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