[DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel

[Roland Jaeckel]

I can't imagine to live in a "free" country with a speed limit. What a waste 
of sheetmetal and horsepower...

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From: "Sean Korb" <spkorb at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:36 PM
To: "List Pantera" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel

> I really can't.  I just can't imagine.  I saw an American Top Gear the
> other day and they were tooling around in a Peele Trident.  The car
> seats two, but honestly it only fit this one large American seated
> squarely in the middle so the car wouldn't list one way or the other.
> I'm trying to imagine a country populated by Austins, Fiats and
> Citroens encountering a 1960 Desoto  with twice the sheetmetal in the
> tail fins as the common European grocery getter.  And 5+ times the
> motor.
>
> Wow.
>
> sean
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Mikael <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk> wrote:
>> In Europe it was called Opel Olympia, the lesser model (yes really) were
>> called Kadett. It was top of the line Opel small car, did 100mph, 102 HP.
>> Can you imagine growing up in a country where this was a quite fancy car,
>> and then watch the cars in American movies?
>>
>> Mikael
>> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
>> Fra: Dave Londry [mailto:davel at emspace.com]
>> Sendt: 30. august 2012 01:04
>> Til: detomaso at list.realbig.com
>> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: 1969 Opel
>>
>> Now the guys at that ad agency smoked a ton of dope.
>> dave
>>
>> On 29/08/2012 3:18 PM, Rob Dumoulin wrote:
>>> They had me hooked in the commercial.......especially with the chick
>>> with angel wings.....until they touted the automatic transmission as a
>>> primary feature :(
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> My buddy is digitizing 40,000+ 16mm and 8mm educational, safety,
>>>> training, etc films.  This one came up and I thought you car buffs
>>>> would get a kick out of it :)
>>>>
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151377918645760
>>>>
>>>> I don't think you have to be logged into Facebook to see their films
>>>> if they're public, most of his stuff is on YouTube or archive.org
>>>>
>>>> Here's another one he digitized earlier in case you can't see the
>>>> Facebook spot.  It's funny too... just not as weird.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgQT0AxgIkI
>>>>
>>>> sean
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
>>>> '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera
>>>> #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
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