That's great! Nice to find an old pic of your ride!
I have talked to the person who sold the Opel to the guy I got it from. They BOTH KNOW the guy who started the project back in the '70's ..... then like so many "drag cars" being built and
not finished and others that were put away due to drag racers moving on to
later model cars due to rule changes, etc, etc. So it sat in a barn for 30 years untouched. The last two owners finally got it "strip-worthy".
Hopefully one day I will be able to meet this guy started converting the family economy grocery getter (
a completely stock '69 Opel Kadett Station Wagon) to a drag car.
From what I have been told, like many other drag car builders of the time, the original owner chose the Opel for its light weight (the body's sheet metal is very thin) over the
more popular Anglias, Austins, Henry J's and other similar small body/short wheelbase cars previously used to build the popular "mini-gassers that had been so
"in vogue" during the late '60's & early '70's.
Finding any pictures of it would be really be nice. Especially ones during the early days of the build & especially when it was "stored in the barn" prior to it finally being completed and raced at drag strips in West Virginia & Ohio.