Got no idea on the GMF (although those headlights do look Graham-ish...hmm), but it does move me to make a general comment. Only my second or third, I believe.
Jesse, this is the first vehicle site I visit when I get online. Your posts are uniformly interesting and insightful. I appreciate the way you post what you've found, mostly w/o embellishment, allowing us to sharpen our Google Fu if we want to know more, or have some inner need to find out just who made the claims/errors on which you so ably report.
And brother, do you and yours find some great stuff! I've bookmarked several other sites you've linked to or recommended, and stolen uncountable numbers of pics for my personal enjoyment.
Keep up your unique take on things with wheels. For my part, I promise to keep trying to find a way to fit a contribution for all the work you do in my retired budget.
Awww shucks! Thank you Terry! You just made my day! And you're sure welcome. I'll never turn down a cool story, or lead to the guitar of my dreams - not that I play guitar - not yet. But dang it if I'm not looking forward to learning someday. I'll also be quite grateful for a tip to a 32 roadster, a 41 Willys, a simple ol Jeep, an Airstream or other great old trailer... you know, all the things I've always wanted, never found, but dreamed about anyway. What would life be without unobtainable goals? Lol... and do I ever want a job doing this... to get paid to do what I do now? Would be a dream come true.
That is a 1939 or 1940 Opel Kapitan cabriolet. Glaser made the cabrio bodies for Opel. The hood ornament is Opel, and the GMF plate has been applied over the spot where the name "Opel" is stamped into the trim. Unless this is some sort of license built version, I would venture to guess the letters GMF are the initials of the current or previous owner.
Jesse, I always reserve the right to be wrong. I wasn't able to tell if the hubcaps were monogrammed. This era of Opels had the model name rather than the brand on the hubcaps, so I thought that's what I was seeing. It's possible that they're monogrammed hubcaps, that's not unheard of. But it most likely blows my theory. However, so far I haven't seen anything that indicates an Opel of any kind was copied or license built (such as the EMW version of the BMW) other than the Moscovitch 400 which was an Opel Olympia built in Russia after the equipment to make it were taken by the Soviets as a war prize.
Got no idea on the GMF (although those headlights do look Graham-ish...hmm), but it does move me to make a general comment. Only my second or third, I believe.
ReplyDeleteJesse, this is the first vehicle site I visit when I get online. Your posts are uniformly interesting and insightful. I appreciate the way you post what you've found, mostly w/o embellishment, allowing us to sharpen our Google Fu if we want to know more, or have some inner need to find out just who made the claims/errors on which you so ably report.
And brother, do you and yours find some great stuff! I've bookmarked several other sites you've linked to or recommended, and stolen uncountable numbers of pics for my personal enjoyment.
Keep up your unique take on things with wheels. For my part, I promise to keep trying to find a way to fit a contribution for all the work you do in my retired budget.
Thanks for a job well done!
Awww shucks! Thank you Terry! You just made my day! And you're sure welcome. I'll never turn down a cool story, or lead to the guitar of my dreams - not that I play guitar - not yet. But dang it if I'm not looking forward to learning someday. I'll also be quite grateful for a tip to a 32 roadster, a 41 Willys, a simple ol Jeep, an Airstream or other great old trailer... you know, all the things I've always wanted, never found, but dreamed about anyway. What would life be without unobtainable goals? Lol...
Deleteand do I ever want a job doing this... to get paid to do what I do now? Would be a dream come true.
That is a 1939 or 1940 Opel Kapitan cabriolet. Glaser made the cabrio bodies for Opel. The hood ornament is Opel, and the GMF plate has been applied over the spot where the name "Opel" is stamped into the trim. Unless this is some sort of license built version, I would venture to guess the letters GMF are the initials of the current or previous owner.
ReplyDeletewell, I'll be damned, you figure someone monogrammed the grill, and the hub caps?
DeleteJesse, I always reserve the right to be wrong. I wasn't able to tell if the hubcaps were monogrammed. This era of Opels had the model name rather than the brand on the hubcaps, so I thought that's what I was seeing. It's possible that they're monogrammed hubcaps, that's not unheard of. But it most likely blows my theory. However, so far I haven't seen anything that indicates an Opel of any kind was copied or license built (such as the EMW version of the BMW) other than the Moscovitch 400 which was an Opel Olympia built in Russia after the equipment to make it were taken by the Soviets as a war prize.
DeleteThe car is the first generation of Opel Kapitan cabriolet.
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