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50Th Anniversary of the Opel GT 50GT Event Welcome to the Opel Motorsport Club The Opel Motorsport Club is celebrating its 38th year of dedication to the preservation and appreciation of all German Opels, with special emphasis on models imported into the United States. We are headquartered on the west coast and have chapters across the country, in Europe, as well as members in Canada and Mexico. Membership benefits include subscription to this, listings for parts and service suppliers, the Blitz index and tech tip index (1985-date), free classified ads (3 per year), club items, a member roster, owner support and activities, including meetings and our annual picnic and car show. Officers This Issue President: Paul Kaman VP/Secretary: Matt Newman Pages: 92 Activities: Words: 30,666 Treasurer: Dick Counsil Illustrations: 150 Blitz Editor: Mike Meier Printing Cost: $19.40 Web Master: Richard Kavadas To Join OMC: Write to Contents OMC TREASURER Official Club Business.................................... 1 c/o Dick Counsil 3824 Franklin Street 2018 Calender .......................................... 2 La Crescenta, CA 91214-1607 50th Anniversary of the Opel GT............................ 3 50GT Swag ............................................ 6 Membership Dues: 50GT Attendees......................................... 7 Regular: $45 ($47 via PayPal) annually. The Route.............................................. 9 Online: $20 ($21 via PayPal) annually. Context............................................... 10 Lasting Memories ...................................... 12 Check or money order (US funds only, made The Best Worst Road Trip Ever!........................... 21 payable to Opel Motorsport Club) The Story of Brad Wheeler, Terry Sackett, and the “RIPWZRD” . 26 PayPal to [email protected] The 1,000 Mile Test Run ................................. 31 Include your name and address information. 50GT Photos .......................................... 47 The Business Page...................................... 89 Meetings: Advertising rates, submission guidelines, copyright, etc. The OMC meetings are as announced, at varying locations. Please consult the OMC Blitz calendar or the OMC website to find out who is hosting the next meeting or event. The Blitz The Blitz is the official publication of the Opel Motorsport Club (OMC). It is published four times a year. Circulation is limited to club members and prospective club members. The Blitz is copyrighted © by the OMC. Articles, photographs, drawings, technical tips, and other materials appearing in The Blitz may not be reproduced without the expressed, written permission of the OMC. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the officers or members of the OMC. Cover Photo: The 50GT tour started near and ended in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here we are at the end, after dinner, after hearing many fun stories about people’s travels, and after saying our good-byes. We’re back on The Strip for one last look before returning to our hotel, resting, then heading home. Photo by Gil Wesson Opel Motorsport Club The Blitz Official Club Business Things Mouse Fixed During the 50GT Tour About This Issue Mouse, in his Isuzu Rodeo, accompanied Cora, This issue is about the 50GT event, Gil Wesson’s and driving her brown GT, and he brought his tools, and Rich Kavadas’ project dedicated to the 50th anniversary he had plenty of opportunity to use them on the 50GT of the Opel GT. Most of the traditional articles, for tour. Here is Mouse’s list of things he fixed. instance Bench Racing and Photo Opel, have been omitted and stories about other Opel events have been 1. Helped with L.T.'s fuel pump and lines, tires. bumped to a later issue. This one is only about the 50GT 2. Helped install A/C belt on orange GT from FL, celebration. tried to help with wiring. 3. Cleaned L.T.'s fuel filter, several times. This issue contains three stories about the 50GT event 4. Replaced the Rodeo’s brake light. plus a boat load of photos, plus one article where many of 5. Helped Rick with his automatic cooler line and the attendees got to say something about their experience ATF cleanup. at the show and on the road with so many classic Opels. 6. Unstuck Cora's parking brake shoe lever and installed brake pad hardware kit. Dave Miller’s story tells us about his alternate tour, 7. Helped a little with throttle linkage after fwhere he left Pennsylvania hoping to join the group in carburetor replacement on an orange GT. Durango, but that didn’t work out, and to some degree, 8. Tightened the battery cable on the support truck. that defined his trip. But in the end, they got through it all 9. Helped with residual pressure valve replacement, and back home okay and had a great time. bleeding and shoe replacement on the Tinyvette. 10. Supplied a spark plug wrench to the Germans’ Terry Sackett’s story is about a long time and very close pearl GT. It started after it got a new cap and friend who had recently died, and soon after the family rotor. gave Terry his friend’s Opel GT. Terry brought it on the 11. Found a way to open L.T.'s headlights. tour, and at the dinner at the Luxor told this story. 12. Disconnected Cora's noisy speedometer. 13. Replaced Cora's fuel hoses. Finally, I tell my story of the tour, covering events from 14. RainX’ed Cora's windshield. each day, and hopefully providing people who did not 15. Helped get Rick's GT idling again. join us a glimpse into what it was like. 16. Offered tools and directed traffic while Gil reattached a steering column. Soon after I returned from the 50GT tour I gathered as 17. Checked some tire pressures. many of the names of its participants as I could and then 18. Cleaned out Kurt's phone connector. contacted each of them to see if they wanted to share a 19. Jump started a Cummins diesel tow rig. nugget with the readers of The Blitz. Many responded, and I think you’ll enjoy reading them. The photo section of this issue contains 105 photos of the MagCloud web site (www.magcloud.com) and search for cars, the scenery, and the people who were at the show “50GT”. If you don’t “Internet” you can always contact and on the tour. These were selected from a collection, me about getting a copy. over 9,000 strong, sent in by Kurt Bainum, Cora Northrup, Roy Moulton, Louis van Steen, Maurice van There Will Be No July-September Issue Sevecotte, Gil Wesson, and myself. This issue weighs in at just over that of two normal issues, and the cost is equally as high, so to preserve what People Can Purchase This Issue we can of our budget we are skipping the next issue. The I am going to make this issue of The Blitz available to all, next issue you receive will be the October-December placing it on public sale on the web site of the company issue. that prints this newsletter. This means you can purchase additional copies and non-members can purchase a copy. The cost will be around $24. To purchase it go to the April - June 2018 Page 1 The Blitz Opel Motorsport Club July 2018 Calender TBA The Pacific NW Opel Meet, Clearview, Washington TBA The Maine Event (Loring Timing Assoc.), Here is your 2018 calendar of Opel events along with Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine motorsports events that inspire us plus a few that 12 - 15 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Chichester, West members of OMC will be participating in. Sussex, England (Runs through July 3) 28 - 29 Pacific Northworst GP (Team Tinyvette) The Bucket-list and Opel Events Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton WA. January August 6 - 20 Dakar Rally, Peru - Bolivia - Argentina 11 - 17 Speed Week, Bonneville Salt Flats 12 - 14 SCCA at Fontana (Gary Murph) 20 - 26 Monterey Car Week, Monterey, CA March September 14 - 18 12 Hours of Sebring, Sebring, Florida TBA The Harvest Event (Loring Timing Assoc.), 17 - 18 SCCA at Willow Springs (Gary Murph) Loring AFB, Limestone, Maine 23 - 25 Texas Mile, Chase Field Industrial Complex, 6 - 9 Charlotte Auto Fair, Charlotte Motor Beeville, Texas Speedway, North Carolina 13 - 22 Targa Newfoundland, St. John’s and April Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada. 5 - 8 Charlotte Auto Fair, Charlotte Motor 14 - 17 World of Speed, Bonneville Salt Flats Speedway, North Carolina 16 - 21 SCCA Runoffs, Sonoma Raceway 27 - 28 Opel Nationals, Las Vegas, NV 21 - 23 International Route 66 Mother Road Festival, 27 - 29 SCCA at Buttonwillow (Gary Murph) Springfield, Illinois 28 - 5 The Great American Road Trip, A Celebration 29 - 30 Button Turrible (Tinyvette), Buttonwillow th of the 50 Anniversary of the Opel GT, Las Raceway, Buttonwillow, California Vegas, NV October May 4 - 7 Targa Florio Classic, Palermo, Italy 10 -13 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, Nürburgring, 4 - 7 Bathhurst 1000, Mount Panorama Circuit in Germany Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. 18 - 20 Carlisle Import & Performance Nationals, 30 - 2 SEMA, Las Vegas, Nevada Carlisle, Pennsylvania 19 - 20 Vodden the Hell Are We Doing (Tinyvette), November Thunderhill Raceway Park, Willows, 14 - 18 Baja 1000, Ensenada, Baja Mexico California 24 - 27 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, Circuit of December Monte-Carlo, Monaco 1 - 2 Arse-Freeze-Apalooza (Tinyvette), Sonoma 26 Isle of Man (runs through June 8) Raceway, Sonoma, California 27 Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis International 1 - 3 The 25 Hours of Thunderhill, Thunderhill Raceway, Indianapolis, Indiana Raceway, Willows, CA June 2 Opels in My Yard, Colfax, Indiana 12 - 22 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Pikes Peak, near Colorado Springs, Colorado 16 - 17 24 Hours of Le Mans, Le Mans, France 17 New England Opel Club’s Opels on the Lawn, Larz Anderson Museum’s German Car Day, Brookline, Massachusetts. Page 2 April - June 2018 Opel Motorsport Club The Blitz 50th Anniversary of the Opel GT My concern was that this is a very big investment of time and resources for anyone who wanted to attend.
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