Sunday, September 16, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1969 Opel GT

Strangely, the Opel GT is one of the more common 1960s German Junkyard Finds. I find many more Type 1 Beetles, of course, and the Mercedes-Benz W110 shows up fairly regularly, but I'll see several Crusher-bound GTs every year. Here's a two-tone Brown GT I spotted in California a couple of weeks back.
The 1.9 liter SOHC four put out a pretty decent 102 horsepower in the 1969 GT.
It appears that some sort of Opel-eating monster took a big bite out of the trunk lid.
This car has been used up, though drivetrain and chassis parts may still have some life left in them. I've let Team Tinyvette know about this car, and they'll be paying it a visit in order to harvest its very fragile transmission.


The GT was marketed as sort of a miniature Corvette, while the Manta was more of a German Camaro. Here we see a rotund Stalingrad vet trying and failing to squeeze into a GT.

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from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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