Opel Kadett C at Nordschleife

[Williams]

One or two of you may know I have a soft spot for Opel Kadett C coupe's after owning one as my second car when I was 18. Mine was only a 1200S, though a 1600SR, 1900GT/E and a 2000 were also available.

I've just found a relatively recent video of a GT/E being driven around Nordschleife. Its flying!!!!

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[Brett]

Excellent find Shauny boy. Quality cars and much better than their Vauxhall counter parts. I'd love to get hold of an Opel Asconna and restore it for my dad who used to own one when I was a kid. Complete with Cromodora alloys and a fiddled with engine it was a weapon in its day and very good looking even to todays standard.

Trouble is these days they are like hens teeth regardless of what model you want. Last time I looked there was only one Asconna for sale in the country and not far off the same for Kaddet coupes.

 

[maxi.man]

Excellent find Shauny boy. Quality cars and much better than their Vauxhall counter parts. I'd love to get hold of an Opel Asconna and restore it for my dad who used to own one when I was a kid. Complete with Cromodora alloys and a fiddled with engine it was a weapon in its day and very good looking even to todays standard.

Trouble is these days they are like hens teeth regardless of what model you want. Last time I looked there was only one Asconna for sale in the country and not far off the same for Kaddet coupes.

i have some ascona manta 400 parts in my shed somwhere i keep a eye out for a ascona shell or full car in france but they seem to be 4 door grrrrrrr

 

[Missing Link]

Here ya go, I looked at it myself, But need another car like a hole in my head.


http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... r/88042704

 

[Missing Link]

Still looking at it Shaun ?......... :rofl: :rofl:

Imagine that with a red top in it. MMMMmmmmm !!!!

 

[Williams]

Hell no... thats a saloon!! [smilie=icon_eek.gif]

I'd only ever have a coupe Sean. Saloons arent even second best, Coupe - Hatch - Saloon

 

[Williams]

These are the type of things I'm talking about :race:

 

[Missing Link]

Yeah.... Agreed looks way better. But a bugger to find I bet.

Any decent old RWD car seems to be a hard thing to find nowadays.

Heres one, But someone's cut a big hole in the roof...... ( Like that's all you'd have to worry about :rofl: )

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Opel-Kadett-1 ... 8851913859

 

[GTTurbo]

Cracking video Shaun. :approve:

That has some power :race:

 

[Lankan]

Seems quite quick.......

Great video.

 

[V6 2HOT]

Great video!

 

[oilyal]

Great video but a long way from being anywere near any sort of origionality. I remember watching Opel GT/E's many years ago competing on the RAC Rally, they were'nt the quickest but they were strong cars.
They were'nt fitted with sequential gearboxes, thats for sure !!!