12:30pm Sunday at a Dalton, GA gas station: A man and his wife ask me if my car was an Opel.
11-24-2003, 09:30 AM
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Bah!
I pulled into an apartment complex to drop a friend off last night. Security guy asked for ID etc. and went round the back of my car to make a note of the plate. When he came back to my window he said: "What is this? A Mercedes or Saturn? What?" I have no idea how he could think my car looked like either of those or how he could put those two in the same sentence!
11-24-2003, 01:35 PM
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Last year that Buick sold the (real) German Opel (not Japanese Isuzu version)--->
was in 1975...it had fuel injection that year. My dad had a '59 Opel Rekord (3spd synchro on column) which he bought through Buick dealership that year....and in which I won trophies in at local dragstrip without his knowing...LOL! 10 years later I bought a new '69 Opel Rallye (102hp)...excellent car except for the stinkin' Contis on it. Starting with '76 model year Buick sold the "Opel" for a few years but it was a cheap lousy Isuzu. GM stopped selling the nice German Opel through Buick because it was much more expensive than the invading Jap cars and there was no profitability for them. GM had "connections" with Isuzu and soon "brought over" the Chevy P'up which was a rebadged shabby small pickup. When Isuzu started marketing cars on own, they improved their lineup. Isuzus are one of oldest automotive/truck companies in Japan, dating back to very early 1900's.
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