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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. The first generation Opel GT (1968 [ 1 ] –1973) debuted as a styling exercise in 1965 at the Paris and Frankfurt motor shows. [ 2 ]
1972 Opel GT diesel Rekordwagen. In June 1972, prior to the September launch of their new diesel engine, Opel set two world records and eighteen international records at the Dudenhofen proving ground with their diesel Rekordwagen. [16] [17] The car was a custom-bodied single-seat Opel GT with a turbocharged version of the 2.1 L OHC diesel ...
The Manta A was released in September 1970, two months ahead of the then new Opel Ascona on which it was based. A competitor to the Ford Capri, it was a two-door "three-box" coupé, and featured distinctive round tail lights, quite similar to those on the Opel GT and which in fact were used on the GT in 1973, its final model year.
In car tuning culture, an engine swap is the process of removing a car's original engine and replacing it with another. This may be a like-for-like replacement, or to install a non-factory specification engine.
1953–1957 Opel Olympia Rekord; 1964–1977 Opel Diplomat; 1967–1982 Opel Commodore; 1968–1973, 2006–2009 Opel GT; 1970–1988 Opel Ascona; 1970–1988 Opel Manta; 1973–1986 Opel Bedford Blitz; 1978–1986 Opel Monza; 1978–1993 Opel Senator; 1980–2018 Opel Vivaro; 1980–1982 Opel Chevette; 1983–2018 Opel Corsavan; 1986–2003 ...
The Opel Rekord D series is a large family car that replaced the Rekord C on Opel's Rüsselsheim production lines during the closing weeks of 1971 [1] and launched on the West German market at the start of 1972. It shared its wheelbase and inherited most of its engines from its predecessor, but the bodies were completely new.
The Oldsmobile engine was very similar to the Buick engine, but not identical: it had larger wedge combustion chambers with flat-topped (rather than domed) pistons, six bolts rather than five per cylinder head, and slightly larger intake valves; the valves were actuated by shaft-mounted rocker arms like the Buick and Pontiac versions, but the ...
The Family II is a straight-4 piston engine that was originally developed by Opel in the 1970s, debuting in 1981. Available in a wide range of cubic capacities ranging from 1598 to 2405 cc, it simultaneously replaced the Opel CIH and Vauxhall Slant-4 engines, and was GM Europe's core mid-sized powerplant design for much of the 1980s, and provided the basis for the later Ecotec series of ...