Theme Tuesdays: Opels

I had thought about doing a favorites Theme Tuesday on cars from either the recent Eibach event or Hella Flush 8 in Venice Beach but I realized that you have probably all seen those same cars all weekend so I decided to go in a completely different route.

I told Ollie I had this in mind last week and like always he came through with a bunch of awesome pics to go with the ones I had saved. So together we came up with this fairly robust collection of sick Opels (/Vauxhall).

Did my best to name these all correct but a few may have slipped up on so if I did let me know 😛

opel_emanual_rekord — Starting things of with Emanuals Rekord

opel_emanual_rekord2 — Sitting sick on banded steels

opel_25_cadet_city — Nice looking Kadett City

opel_24 — I love chrome window frames on boxy cars.

opel_23_reckord — Another Rekord, sedan this time gives off that older American vibe

opel_21_panscrapers — This pan scrapers one has been around

opel_20_holden — All this fitment no camber, interesting

opel_17_mattig — Ollie took some time out to find this one tuned by Mattig. Damn wide car

opel_16_carlton — Kinda reminds me of a 5er... kinda

opel_15_vxx220 — The VX220 which shares a lot with the Elise

opel_13_cadet — Cage inside intrigues me...

SONY DSC — Kadett C from Speedhunters, also want

opel_9_frenza — Warning race spec Opels inbound

opel_10_droop — Droop snoot is really a fitting nick name for these

opel_2 — Makes me want to get out to more vintage car races

opel_8 — These remind me of another car but I can't think of what right now

opel_6_cadet_highhorse — I am told this car is an ungodly beast of an automobile

opel_4_chevette — Banded steels on errrthang

opel_3 — A few people sent in this build, thanks! Great read

As always suggestions for more weeks are appreciated and added to ‘the list’.

13 COMMENTS

Joe May 24, 2011 At 2:45 pm

Besides my favorability towards Volvo’s, I’d have to say the Vauxhall/Opel sect falls second. Small(ish) cheap cars (well, in Europe anyway), 4cyl, and most rwd. What more could you ask for? I wish more would have made it to the states, and had actually not rusted into the ground by today.

Arnold van de Worp May 24, 2011 At 3:29 pm

nice, somehow the dutch peaps prefers VW above Opel but opels aint bad at al (as long it does’nt have any rust underneat) 😛

i’ve also have some opel pics 😀

http://arnoldvandeworp.nl/wp-content/gallery/essenmotorshow2010/b278316.jpg
http://arnoldvandeworp.nl/wp-content/gallery/streetpower2011/3272756.jpg
http://arnoldvandeworp.nl/wp-content/gallery/streetpower2011/3272709.jpg

go kart tyre fitment oliver May 24, 2011 At 3:43 pm

i had that mattig astra in on my desk top for weeks i finaly thought im not gona need it and got rid the next day dave emails me asking for opels and could i remember the tuners name could i hell lol

matt May 24, 2011 At 3:54 pm

That red [Named Red Victor 1] Is insane. 0-60 in 1 second. 2001BHP…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwK9Lbfx5Q link to documentry on it… Phoar.

justin May 24, 2011 At 8:25 pm

the white and blue one’s remind me of KE20 Corollas, and also 69′ Volks Fastbacks..

Nice theme tuesday!

go kart tyre fitment oliver May 25, 2011 At 2:53 am

thanks mat i tryed to find that vid to show dave but i couldnt remember what it was called

Murray May 25, 2011 At 6:24 am

I think the one that kind of reminds you of a 5er is a Lotus Carlton. Hugely powerful for its day (1990 – 1992), and still today, with 281KW from a twin turbo charged 3.6 litre straight six.

Has to be the ultimate sleeper.

- DaveT May 25, 2011 At 7:22 am
  
  Murray you are right it is a Carlton, but I didn’t know it was a Lotus. Interesting. Stock twin turbo in a car like that is pretty rad.
  
Emanuel Nilsson May 25, 2011 At 12:23 pm

I´m very honoured that my Caravan is shown here, thank you!

/Manne

go kart tyre fitment oliver May 25, 2011 At 12:51 pm

dave the lotus vauxhal carlton was the worlds fastest production car for quite a while it was in the email

DaveT May 25, 2011 At 1:18 pm

Ya when it went from email to post all that carried through was ‘carlton’ lol multi tasking fail

ec Nov 10, 2012 At 5:09 pm

Hey the white Firenza is mine ( 4th from bottom ), still got it . We spaced the wheels out a bit since I took that pic – it’s in particularly good company on here… 🙂

DaveT Nov 11, 2012 At 9:41 am

Nice car ec!