Some Opel GT and Opel Manta!


 

Opel GT. There used to be one of these sittin’ on a gravel lot by some neighbors down the road where I grew up, just sittin’ there without plates, still sportin’ some old expired temp tags stuck on it. They brought the Opel GT back between 2007 and 2009 as a totally different kinda car, and if I remember right, I read in a car magazine back in ’06 or ’07 that it was almost ‘Norwegian,’ since most of the aluminum came from Norsk Hydro, which is part of Equinor today. 




Opel Manta, this ride was made back in the ’70s and ’80s, and today it’s back, sittin’ pretty as one hell of a badass electric version.”













(Opel Manta. Tidlig 1970-tall.)




(Opel (Manta. Ca. early 1980)



(Opel GT. Ca. 2020)





(Above and below: Opel GT, around the early 1970s)

 




(Here might be an almost Norwegian Opel GT. Around the late 2000s.)













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