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Lot details
Registration No: GPE 153V
Chassis No: the details below
MOT: Exempt
Estimate: £3, 000 - £4, 000
Motor Car Location: Derbyshire
Purchased by the vendor from ourselves in 2020 as a ‘garage find’, having been stored in the said garage for thirty years
Desirable 1900 engine which has been successfully started during the vendor's ownership
Only four UK keepers having been imported in 1979
Supplied with a current V5C, original owner’s manual and assorted other paperwork
With a design team that included Clare M. MacKichan and Chuck Jordan (of '57 Chevy Bel Air, Corvair Monza Spyder, Camaro and Opel Manta fame), work on the Opel GT project began in 1962. With its slippery outline carefully developed in the wind tunnel, it entered production some six years later. Based on a modified Kadett platform equipped with independent front suspension, a 'live' rear axle, disc/ drum brakes and rack and pinion steering, its exotic Fastback Coupe body was specially fabricated in France. Powered by a choice of 1, 100cc or 1, 900cc four-cylinder powerplants mated to four-speed manual transmission, it was available in left-hand drive only. A great success in America, which accounted for about 70% of production, GM nonetheless insisted that the larger-engined GT be restricted to 88bhp and 110lbft of torque lest its sales interfere with the Corvette.
Supplied new to France in 1970, this Opel GT was originally finished in Gold. Imported into the UK in 1979 with importation paperwork still present with the car, the Opel was first registered on UK roads in January 1980. Fitted with the desirable 1900cc four-cylinder engine, allied to the four-speed manual gearbox, the GT was subject to a colour change to the current Red in October 1981, the Opel has had a total of four keepers in the United Kingdom. In previous ownership from 1990 until 2020, the Opel was purchased and very soon put into garage storage, where it resided until the sale to the vendor.
Acquired by the vendor as a non-runner, the vendor has removed the rear bumper and front lights in preparation for restoration work to begin and informs that he has successfully got the Opel ‘running’. Work then halted due to other projects and the Opel is now being offered once more, displaying a highly credible 78, 828Km on the clock.
