Your Dream Car

Here's one more car from Car Show here in Leipzig imentioned. The 2,000,000th Opel, build in 1957. Model is Kapitän (Captain in English):



Everything that glitters is real 24 carat gold.

Kari

whs said:

z3r010 said:

mitchell65 said:

Here's mine and my dog loves it too:

That's not a car it's a roller skate!!!!

Not true. those are really nice cars. This particular one comes in 3 (practically identical) flavors - Toyota, Citroen and Peugot. If everybody would be driving cars this size, there would be a lot less trouble in the world and we would stop fighting over oil. Any car that cannot do at least 50MpG (and I do not mean Imperial Gallons) should be banned.

Thanks for that. The odd thing is that being such a small car when I checked the tyre (tire) pressures there was a different figure for cruising at 90 mph. Yes 90 mph. I'm not prepared to say if I have tried to get to that speed but I wouldn't like to argue with Toyota, I know I would loose on that one, seriously. Bit of wind noise though and the windscreen wipers tend to lift off over 80mph. (so they tell me, anyway)
P.S. Years ago I used to drive a Sunbeam Tiger. Sunbeam Alpine body with a Ford V8 engine. Big hump was made in the bonnet to accommodate the air filter! That was quick.

My grandpa had a Kapitän in Finland in early 60's, used as a taxi.

We really admired this Opel Kapitän yesterday. Every screw, every part that normally would be chrome is 24 carat gold. The car belongs to a private car museum. Here's a pic of the same car found on the net:

derekimo said:

Anyone of these would suit me fine.

Yes, if the grocery store is 2 blocks away and you only have 3 seconds to run and get butter before dinner. otherwise, I hear the turning radius and mpg are horrible.

.0001 mpg lol

Obama was reading this and just fainted.
(sorry not trying to get political just making a funny)

Edit: estimate on conversion of mpg to feet/gallon was way off.