Poor Man's Corvette - 1973 Opel GT on My Classic Car with Dennis Gage - Cyclo Polisher

[Mike Phillips]

Here we're doing a little glass glass and chrome cleaning before moving the car into position. Some of my pictures were taking with my iPhone and others with my Canon.







Whenever you're going to work on a car you need to figure out the camera angles that will do the best job of showing the products and the process. For this Opel GT we chose to use the right hand side of the trunk lid.




This was a segment showing the Cyclo Dual Head Orbital Polisher and how well it works to remove swirls, scratches and in this specific example oxidation.



Here you can see Mike re-positioning a light for one of the camera guys...





Here I'm removing oxidation to the paint on just the right hand side of the tape-line using Pinnacle XMT #3 Intermediate Swirl Remover.



Here's the before and after results after removing the tape. The paint itself was real glossy on the after side but when I took this picture we had already moved the car off the set and I wasn't able to get the right angle to show the glossy appearance but they did capture it on video for this how-to feature.

[Setec Astronomy]

The Opel was under the vauxhall umbrella right?

I thought they were trying to sell Opel separately from Vauxhall, but I dunno if I'm remembering right. I think you're right that Opel/Vauxhall/Saab were all under the GM Europe umbrella.

And now I'm going to stop because we're hijacking Mike's thread.

[FUNX650]

Cool car in nice condition. Most are left to "rusting-out".
The TinyVettes were much better looking than the Ford/Mercury Capris of the same time period, IMO.

Thanks for sharing!

Bob

[CEE DOG]

Yes, indeed we are. Mike, love the car and looking forward to following this thread! Thank you!

[Joe@Superior Shine]

I have always loved those cars!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle5-wa5Yjc&feature=related]Spencers Speed Shop2 1970 Opel GT.mov - YouTube[/video]

[Flash Gordon]

These are some of the coolest cars ever!!!

[Mike Phillips]

When I was in SoCal there was a guy that ran around in an Opel GT with a big block in it... not sure how he did it but it was always an attention getter everywhere he took it...

[CEE DOG]

When I was in SoCal there was a guy that ran around in an Opel GT with a big block in it... not sure how he did it but it was always an attention getter everywhere he took it...

That's awesome

[Mike Phillips]

That's awesome

I remember the car had wheelie bars... probably used them too...

[opie_7afe]

when is the video for this one going to be up on the my classic car webpage? do you know mike? im sure others are wondering also..