1964 Opel Kadett Sport Coupe – Marching to a Different Drummer

There were many interesting and familiar cars parked at the 2018 Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance. Ferraris, Packards, Jaguars and some vintage racecars are what one hopes and expects to see at such a place. However, amongst the highly collectable and sought after vintage cars on the field this day, there was an outlier. It was attractive, if not cute in appearance. No one really knew for sure what type of car it was until closely inspecting it. The little car parked at the far corner of the field that everyone was curious about, was a 1964 Opel.

One can imagine that an upper middle-class American, perusing a Buick dealership in 1964, was thinking the same thing. Wading through a sea of monstrous Electra 225’s, muscular Wildcats, sexy Rivieras and sporty Skylarks, the potential Buick buyer also may have curiously wondered what that car was parked at the end of the lot. “Oh that car,” the salesman may have said, “That is the new Opel, made in Germany. Now let me show the fine features included in the newly designed Buick Skylark, right over here.”