Someone in my town has had a 1982( I guess, can't remember exactly) 2.0 litre 4 cylindre 200 hp RWD Manta with mild degradation - rusted engine cover, dust everywhere on the inside, mildly degraded head gasket and intake manifold, cracked pipe and needed some suspension work. It also had some tinted foil on the glass, switches for a nitrous installation( without the installation itself being fit to the car) and had fit aftermarket seats and steering wheel, but the guy had the original parts in his garage.
He was selling it back in August 2015 for 2000 Euros, when I was almost 16 years old, extremely passionate about engineering and Group B, and also ready to take it as my own personal project car. My mom didn't have the money and my dad didn't want to buy it. The guy sold it a year and a half later for much less than that to another passionate guy in another district.
Yeah, I'm sorry for not buying it. It could have been a great investment, a great project car and I'm almost certain it would have been a great driver's car. Now I'm eighteen, I'll enter University in Fall, studying a Road Vehicles four-year course at the Transylvania University taught in English in the city of Brașov, in Romaina( that's where I'm from).
I don't know I'll have such a chance soon, but my main goals now are to innovate the car and mountainbike industries. I'll guess we'll have to see what the future has to offer.
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The Astra GSi certainly deserves to be mentioned in an 80s/90s hot hatch article at some point
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Being raised in a Manta B (1975) and a Kadett D (1982) I appreciate your article very much! Finally somebody states, that not all Opel were bad!
You forgot the Lotus Carlton!
Someone in my town has had a 1982( I guess, can't remember exactly) 2.0 litre 4 cylindre 200 hp RWD Manta with mild degradation - rusted engine cover, dust everywhere on the inside, mildly degraded head gasket and intake manifold, cracked pipe and needed some suspension work. It also had some tinted foil on the glass, switches for a nitrous installation( without the installation itself being fit to the car) and had fit aftermarket seats and steering wheel, but the guy had the original parts in his garage.
He was selling it back in August 2015 for 2000 Euros, when I was almost 16 years old, extremely passionate about engineering and Group B, and also ready to take it as my own personal project car. My mom didn't have the money and my dad didn't want to buy it. The guy sold it a year and a half later for much less than that to another passionate guy in another district.
Yeah, I'm sorry for not buying it. It could have been a great investment, a great project car and I'm almost certain it would have been a great driver's car. Now I'm eighteen, I'll enter University in Fall, studying a Road Vehicles four-year course at the Transylvania University taught in English in the city of Brașov, in Romaina( that's where I'm from).
I don't know I'll have such a chance soon, but my main goals now are to innovate the car and mountainbike industries. I'll guess we'll have to see what the future has to offer.