Actually Mike posted this at the Cohort. Maybe the owner’s trying to corner the market on orange Opel GTs. These are getting rare enough, although I do have one in the works for a proper CC. But seeing three orange ones in a row might well be some kind of world record.
Looks like they’re all in pretty decent shape too. Here’s someone who obviously knows what he likes. Good luck finding a fourth.
One for me, one for K. Martin, plus another orange car fan to be named later. All headed to Junqueboi’s joint, no doubt. 🙂
I’ll happily take the third.
Wow!!! Too bad these gorgeous little cars aren’t a better color like Lime Green. Approved anyway.
God hasn’t created a better color than orange. These are perfect.
Did they ever make another color of these? Every Opel GT I’ve ever seen has had orange paint. Or maybe they were just rusting away.
Cool-looking little car, though. Much appreciated in the bland/boxy 70s.
Here’s a yellow one: https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/late-night-capsule-1968-73-opel-gt-do-you-think-it-ran-when-parked/
Three under the tree.
1 parts car + 1 parts car + 1 parts car + blood + sweat + tears + cash = 1 car?
Probably can’t have too many parts cars. Talked to a guy who owns one earlier this year, and he said said parts are getting to be almost impossible to find. Break the windshield, he said, and it would almost be cheaper to buy another car.
Lots of fond memories of these for me. My Dad had a ’70 GT, and he used to let me shift gears from the passenger seat (a big thrill for a boy whose driver’s license was a decade away). Most of all I was enthralled with the big, manly lever that operated the headlamps.
The vanity plate on the middle car says “Goetz” and a space and then another letter. I wish I’d taken a closer look at that plate while I had the chance. I’m not sure what the owner was goetzing at with a plate like that. Can anyone hazard a goetz?
The owner’s name? Sounds very German.
Mike; I sent you an e-mail. Did you get it?
No, I don’t see it. You sent it today? To the rocketmail.com address?
No, your CC registration g-mail. Probably not real.
Shoot me one: curbsideclassic(at)gmail.com Tx
I’d say performance upgrade related- I found some Goetz piston rings for Opels after messing around on google for a bit. It seems engine sealing is their forte…
And I thought it was a pun-loving owner. The car has lots of goetz up and go, that sort of thing. Goetz good mileage. Somebody please stop me.
Goetz = Götz.
Pronounced as guts.
So, we have a fearless driver with German ancestors.
Someone who must live within a reasonable distance from me owns a very well maintained one of these, and orange to boot. I’ll see it out and about during the summer in various parking lots while its owner is running errands, presumably. The one thing that sticks out when seeing one in person is just how narrow they are!
I’ve mentioned this before elsewhere, but this is an elaborate old car owner’s trick: Own multiple identical classic cars and drive one while fixing the inevitable problems with the others and not letting on to your spouse that there are more than one.
“See Honey, I told you an old car could be reliable to drive”
At school I had a project that involved sitting in on a session of the local court, and a guy was in for driving a car with the registration plates from another vehicle he owned. I don’t think he was able to present any sort of credible defence, and he got a decent fine, I think it might have been around the cost of actually registering the car which is more $$$ here than referred to in Paul’s post from last week on costs in Oregon, although I don’t think there was the intent by the judge to link the two amounts.
I always liked the looks of these little bombs — and of the “Baby Corvette” concept in general. But I’ve never had any direct experience with them, and I’m aware owning one at this late date (40+ years) would probably not be such a good idea.
The ones I have seen all do seem to be this shade of orange, though. Was that the GT’s best-selling color?
Underneath the French body it’s basically an Opel Kadett B.
The Kadett was Opel’s counterpart of the Beetle. (and later the Golf)
“Come see the NEW Opel GT! At your Buick-Opel dealer now!”
Only ever seen one at a show many years ago LHD with a British registration plate.I think there was at least one more built as a drag racer with a small block Chevy V8 around the late 70s that was in a magazine
Ha! I took some pictures of these a few weeks ago. The one on the far left appeared to be the best one, while the others were parts cars. Quite a sight.
I wholeheartedly approve of this lineup, and one of these beautiful babes may be delivered to my house, thank you very much!
The world sorely needs more of these beauties, and it would be nice if three GTs are parked outside that fiberglass shop because the owner is going to make a complete Opel GT body kit and wants to double and triple check all the measurements. Given that Opels of this era seem to rust out if you breathe on them, that might be the the only way to keep the species from going extinct.
Here’s a mustard colored job that we saw at a car show/swap meet at Petit Jean, AR earlier this year. My wife loves Corvettes, but wanted no part of it….