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Anyone know what this is? Say’s it’s Bradley gt but I don’t think it is! It is fairly close to home for me.
http://alberta.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-bradley-GT-for-sale-W0QQAdIdZ505809567
PMOSSBERG 2013-08-07 12:26:58 I have no idea what it is; but I’m pretty sure that is NOT a Bradley GT.Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
It vaguely resembles a Bradley GT, but that roofline looks too high for one thing. And I remember them having a Plexi door/window combo that hinged in the center of the roof and worked something like a gullwing. That one seems to have a solid roof.
1981 Lafer TI
1600 cc Type 1 engineMontie…how could you insult the Opel GT like that? 😮
PMOSSBERG2013-08-07 22:41:49
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
Yeah, that Opel GT was a sweet little car. I have fond memories of navigating in one of those back in college on some late-night lime runs through the back roads of Brazos County, Texas.
1981 Lafer TI
1600 cc Type 1 engineOutran a state cop in Valley Forge Park in one of those.
Another time , hit 147 coming down the turnpike.
Ah, the stupidity of youth.Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"147mph in an Opel GT? That could not have been stock, eh?
Re the kit in question: it’s so ugly I kind of don’t care what it is. Looks like a Manx or similar buggy that’s been lovingly re-worked by someone with no sense of scale or proportion.Kind of looks like a Bradley GT that somebody tried to make into a hardtop. Still ugly.
Sam
Still not convinced this is a Bradley, reworked or otherwise. None of the body contours line up with any iteration of Bradleys. I got it, it’s a reproduction of a Bradley! A kit car based on a kit car!
Anyway, we’ve already spent far too much energy on this thing than any of us needed to!Back to the Opel….I never had a GT.But I spent a couple years with a 1973 Opel Manta GT. Loved that car!
PMOSSBERG2013-08-08 11:35:24
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
I used to call the Opel GT in my neighborhood “Corvette Jr.” I am very sure–and don’t ask how I know this–that the orange 1973 corvette our shop’s mechanic owned would not exceed 125 mph. Which is why again I ask Bill to divulge more details about his 143mph Opel.
edsnova2013-08-08 19:58:54
LOL. Yup. I know my Manta woudl not come close to the 140s!
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
Patti came home and said she hit 140. I didn’t believe her and took it out on the PA Turnpike Northeast Extension southbound from Allentown to Quakertown with the pedal on the floor. It is primarily a downhill run but she kept inching up until I had to admit she was right. Eventually she crept to 147. And yes, it was bone stock.
Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"Wow. Who knew the Opel of that era could outrun its big brother?
Tach reading?edsnova2013-08-08 20:01:06
Don’t even think I was looking. She was screaming, though.
Bill Ascheman
Fiberfab Ford
Modified 5.0, 5sp., 4:11
Autocross & Hillclimb
"Drive Happy"Patty was screaming??????
Allen Caron
VW based 53MGTD - "MoneyPenny"
"If one thing matters, everything matters" - from the book The ShackTechnically, my car was an Opel Manta Rallye. Bad memory made me call it Manta GT.
The only thing I can find online says the Manta top speed was 170 kph, which is about 105 mph.
And my aging memory recalls the engine was really screaming at anything close to that speed.I found an article on Hemmings.com that says the GT top speed was 157 kph, which is 97.5 mph.
But maybe the downhill run really helped Bill and Patti.
PMOSSBERG2013-08-08 22:28:11
Paul Mossberg
Former Owner of a 1981 Classic Roadsters Ltd. Duchess (VW)
2005 Intermeccanica RoadsterIf you own a TDr and are not in the Registry, please go to https://tdreplica.com/forums/topic/mg-td-replica-registry/ and register (you need to copy and paste the link)
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