Opel GT
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The Mini-Vette, I had a friend who got one minus the motor. Got all the stuff together to swap in a 327, then he hooked up with a new girl, and never finished to project. Sold it in piece's, I really think it would have been really cool. I'll be interested to see if what people have to say.
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·My Buddy's Dad bought him one when he graduated from College. It was Gold.
It was a real hoot! I talked him into letting me install a 2GC, (the big one) Rochester carb on it b/c it kept blowing out it's half a 4-barrel carb's whatever and it cost a bunch to get it fixed!!
Anyway, he had it dyno tuned in KCMO one Sat and coming back a '67 or '68 Chevelle got to road racing w/ us and at 125 they backed off and the little motha was still coming on!!
I wished my First Gen. Camaro car's headlight doors operated like their flip headlights do!!
Great little Gasser material to me!!
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It was a real hoot! I talked him into letting me install a 2GC, (the big one) Rochester carb on it b/c it kept blowing out it's half a 4-barrel carb's whatever and it cost a bunch to get it fixed!!
Anyway, he had it dyno tuned in KCMO one Sat and coming back a '67 or '68 Chevelle got to road racing w/ us and at 125 they backed off and the little motha was still coming on!!
I wished my First Gen. Camaro car's headlight doors operated like their flip headlights do!!
Great little Gasser material to me!!
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Hoffbug, that's a cool picture. I think they came out mid-69 in Europe but made it to America for '71. 1973 was the last year for them. I think they had 1900 c.c. fours.
Opels were sold at Buick dealers, but not so much in Canada. Here we tended to get British Vauxhalls sold at Pontiac-Buick dealers and the same car called Epic for Chev-Olds dealers. The Opel GT was sold here but they never proved to be big sellers.
Opels were sold at Buick dealers, but not so much in Canada. Here we tended to get British Vauxhalls sold at Pontiac-Buick dealers and the same car called Epic for Chev-Olds dealers. The Opel GT was sold here but they never proved to be big sellers.
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·It looks like you can buy a fairly decent one for less than the cost of a new snowmobile.. Might be a fun project. Muscle cars are getting way too expensive.
Im thinking a Buick 215 would be fun in there... Maybe a lS-7 out of a Z06 vette if you had unlimited funds.
Im thinking a Buick 215 would be fun in there... Maybe a lS-7 out of a Z06 vette if you had unlimited funds.
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Now that sounds like a neat swap. A Buick Opel with a lightweight aluminum Buick V8.
A guy in our local club has a nice '62 Olds F85 with an aluminum 215 V8. Over the winter he swapped in a 5-speed and 4-wheels disk brakes. He tells me of a guy in the U.S. that specializes in those engines.
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V6 vortec would be a runner. Or one out of a Buick GN. :thumbsup:
Us guys with no money are really good at mapping things out in our heads
I already have the recipe for a 215 with a 300 crank that could put out a reliable 300 horsepower. coupled to a 200R4 in an Opel GT would be fast and quick street car.
Ive let 2 of those engines go already
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mini-vette? we called them a "poor mans" vette
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I had a '70 Opel Manta, whuch was not quite as sporty as the GT but it was still very cool. It handled great and had good power. I loved that car until one day both front brake rotors broke through at the same time, causing the calipers and master cylinder to blow out. All the parts for the brakes cost $800 so I sold it to a friend. I don't know what happened to it after that. I shoulda never sold that car. DAMN, I loved that car.
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When I was in Tech school in '74 there was a guy there who was putting one of those aluminum block V-8's in one. I finished school before he got the car done, but he told me the V-8 weighed less than the four banger and had about twice the horses. Weren't they rust buckets,though? Might be kind of hard to find a semi-solid one now.
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now this is scary..... I'm out cleaning the garage today and in a stack of papers I'm going through, I find an original service manual for a 71 GT :yes:
Man are you kidding me? My very first car in my life was a 1975 Opel AsconaAnyone ever own an Opel GT from the 60's 70's?
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What were your thoughts?
Was it a fun car to drive?
Performance?
Mileage ?
Reliability?
anything?
Mines was just like this one except mines was blue. When I was in the US Army stationed in Germany back in the 1980's, I practically drove that thing from one end of the country clean over to the other. With no speed limits on the AutoBahn, that things practically STAYED OVER 100 mph. Man, I loved that car like Southerners love grits, and if I had the opprotunity to get my hands on another one, I'd be all over it like a sex starved man fresh outta prison on a hooker
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