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To: Elsie
4.5 Opel GTs? Had one when I was 16 and 17. My dad was friends with the local Buick dealer, so my sister got an Opel Kadette and when I became 16, I got an Opel GT. Fun car...

Where's the other half of the . 5 GT?

18 posted on 08/19/2020 8:15:03 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-) Trump 2020)
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To: Deplorable American1776

I got it when the last person gutted it, cut the top off hoping to make a convertible. (The unibody is not strong enough for that; a sub or a full frame must be constructed to get the necessary stiffness.


25 posted on 08/19/2020 6:47:10 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Deplorable American1776

I bought two pickup loads of various parts of Opel gt stuff when there was not much demand for repairs any more.

A Buick dealer in a town a couple of counties north of me had off loaded it’s repair of them to one of their shop people.

He had a barn/shop outside of town where he repaired them, and he; too; finally got out of the business.

Alternators, water pump, carb, values rings, transmissions, seats,brake stuff.

I didn’t know there were so many variations of internals in just 4 years; cars that looked basically the same.

I once bought a perfectly good Kadett; just to get the rearend/differential. After tearing the car apart and saving all the running gear and other pieces; I found that the Kadett rearend was 2-3 inches wider than the GT’s!!


26 posted on 08/19/2020 6:53:57 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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