Readers’ Rides:
1971 Opel Ascona 1900
Added on April 17 by mith612
This is my potential Challenge entry, a 1971 Opel Ascona 1900. The car was purchased from a local garage owner who had himself bought the car from a widow. It was last registered for the road in 1998, and has sat the intervening years.
The car came to me without the engine, and missing a few other key parts, including the keys. It sat low in the yard, hence we both figured that there must be a pile of stuff in the locked trunk. After removing the fiberboard that made up the rear parcel shelf, a set of socket extensions with a screwdriver tip on the end was used to unscrew the latch. Inside the trunk included the bulk of the engine; everything except for the short block.
The plan now is to continue stripping the car, removing the wet and moldy interior, getting it down to the shell. Pretty much everything in/on the car will be tossed and eventually replaced with stuff in better shape. It’s becoming more obvious now how good of a condition the car is in, as the sheet metal work needed is limited to only a few, nonstructural areas. Eventually I’ll need to source a donor drivetrain, maybe something miata or bmw powered.
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Updates
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Teardown, part 1 April 20
Just over a week into the Opel project, and a lot of the teardown is …
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The Donor, part 1 April 27
So while at work on Saturday (I work at an auto parts store), I overheard …
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The Donor, part 2 April 29
So the Geo Tracker is a bust. Literally. Spent most of the day yesterday pulling …
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The Donor, take two June 08
After taking some time away from the drivetrain side of the project, I’m now back …
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Hovercraft July 06
Progress had been slow going on the Opel, as the weather conditions here in the …
