1968 Opel Gt

1970 opel gt has been in storage in new mexico for the last 8 years.

1968 opel gt. New water pump 4 new tires new battery new weber carburetor 3236 manual choke 19l engine runs and starts. 1968 opel gt v8. Okay so lets be honest with ourselves for a minute. How many of us have thought about how the opel gt kind of looks like a tiny corvette.

Both shared styling cues from the 1965 mako shark ii. Having been a v8 car for over 30 years this opel is in need of a little tlc. Instead of contracting with hella to make some more opel simply grafted on taillamps from the manta. This opel is a little closer to that realization featuring a v8 with side pipes.

The first generation opel gt 1968 1973 debuted as a styling exercise in 1965 at the paris and frankfurt motor shows. The company founders grandson georg von opel reached 188 kmh in mid 1971 at hockenheim in a converted opel gt with electric propulsion. The original opel gt produced in germany for the 1968 through 1973 model years showed traces of the banshee as well as its distant corvette cousin and could be purchased in the united states. The gt 1900 is an automobile from opel with rear wheel drive a front located engine and a 2 door coupe body style.

The following year a team of motoring journalists and race car drivers set 20 world records at the opel test center in dudenhofen in the diesel world record gt 1972. The elegant opel gt coupe was introduced as a concept at the 1965 frankfurt and paris motor shows and widely hailed in europe as a mini corvette. 1968 1972 opel gt reverse light license light housings hella 51179 imp204 see more like this 1968 buick gs 400 stage 1 opel gt original vintage full page color ad pre owned. The opel gt is a front engine rear drive two seat sports car manufactured and marketed by opel in two generations separated by a 34 year hiatus.

Get it shipped free auto shipping quote. Opel was gms european satellite and the gts origins were definitely entangled with the redesigned 1968 c3 corvette. There is very little rust besides some surface rust the only real rust rot is on the bottom of the nose cone below the battery tray that is normal for these cars. According to charles goins opel gt identification guide toward the end of the 1972 model year opel ran out of taillamp lenses for the gt.

In the final year 1973 all opel seemed to want to do was clear out any remaining gt stock.