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Sandie ◊ 2011-07-24 00:27	I'm not convinced this is an Opel rather than a Vauxhall but the DVLA says otherwise... The vehicle details for B700 AOB are: Date of Liability 01 05 1994 Date of First Registration 27 09 1984 Year of Manufacture 1984 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 2968CC Vehicle Colour BLUE
dsl ◊ 2011-07-24 00:35	The marketing brand changed in Oct 84, so this one is balancing on the edge of the last Opel or the first Vauxhall. Brummie plates, so not a works car.
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 00:42	Left a Vauxhall Viva in semi-mint condition.
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 00:42	The frontscreen in the background looks Volvo 244-ish, or? Edit: But it isn't: /vehicle.php?id=418686 -- Last edit: 2011-07-24 01:04:33
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 01:26	Sandie wrote I'm not convinced this is an Opel rather than a Vauxhall but the DVLA says otherwise... Funny footnote: It has now (since Thursday) a registration as an Opel: Either TÜV, road-traffic-department or even the Opel-garage: when they write the VIN-number into their databases, it will be immediately classified as an Opel. The basis is the insurance-classification http://www.gdv-dl.de/typklassenverzeichnis.html?&ref=typklasse The only Vauxhalls there are the CF and the Chevette - the only Vauxhall/Bedford-models, which were officially imported to Germany ever. -- Last edit: 2011-07-24 01:26:41
G-MANN ◊ 2011-07-24 01:30	Surely if this was an Opel it would have a circular Opel badge on the grille instead of the square Vauxhall badge?
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 01:34	In fact it's the same here, as with all past-Chevette Vauxhalls (so all Opel-derivates): the only different parts are grille, hubcaps, horn-plate, cylinderhead-cover and instruction manual.
dsl ◊ 2011-07-24 01:46	ingo wrote the only Vauxhall/Bedford-models, which were officially imported to Germany ever. So you missed out on the delights of the VX4/90 which was a bit of a European export success in its early days /vehicles.php?make=Vauxhall&model=VX+4%2F90&modelMatch=1&modelInclModel=on until people started noticing that they rusted away to nothing after about 6 weeks.
Sandie ◊ 2011-07-24 03:36	So what we have here is either a Vauxhall incorrectly registered as an Opel (would a dealer make such a mistake?) or an Opel with a Vauxhall grill? Maybe it was a demonstrator for a Brummie Vauxhall/Opel garage which had its grill changed so it was not an obsolete model?
dsl ◊ 2011-07-24 04:13	PS @ingo why/when was the Chevette sold in Germany? only the hatchback? and only to fill a gap until the Kadett City came out??
m.pfaffeneder ◊ 2011-07-24 12:27	@dsl: Opel sold the Chevette in Germany from 10/1980 to 04/1982. The production of the Kadett C has ended and then there was the new Kadett D. Then they´ve decided to sell the Chevette as a much cheaper car, until the Corsa A comes on the market.
dsl ◊ 2011-07-24 13:59	Thanks - so Chevette was a gapfiller for Germany after Kadett City stopped until Corsa arrived to give a small/cheap 3 door hatch as a token offering against the success of the Fiesta.
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 19:02	dsl wrote on until people started noticing that they rusted away to nothing after about 6 weeks. We had own cars with an identical characteristic in that times.
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 19:06	dsl wrote only the hatchback? Wiki says, that it was sold here as two-door Hatchback, two-door Estate and four-door Sedan (total 12.332 cars) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Chevette But I only can remember the Hatchback, the other versions I've never awarely noticed.
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-24 19:15	Sandie wrote So what we have here is either a Vauxhall incorrectly registered as an Opel (would a dealer make such a mistake?) or an Opel with a Vauxhall grill? Maybe it was a demonstrator for a Brummie Vauxhall/Opel garage which had its grill changed so it was not an obsolete model? I think, this change depends only on the fact, that all modern (of the last 30 years) Vauxhalls are nothing else than Opels with other decorations. Be aware of the fact, that all of them were produced parallel in the same plants on the same assembly line. There is no origin GB Vauxhall any more, since the Chevette. And there is no specific Vauxhall-production in GB for GB any more. So this mentioned computer-classification is obviously cause by the fact, that there's even no different VIN-code-classification any more. By the VIN-code you can see, in which plant the car was built, but -as it seems- not, if it was sold as an Opel or an Vauxhall. Btw.: our local Opel-dealer could see all details of the car in his computer, all original extras, even which dealer (Arnold Clark in Stirling) has sold it and when - but without any possibility to switch/classify it as an Vauxhall.
dsl ◊ 2011-07-28 23:29	ingo wrote @ingo - you haven't been trying to park it on a Cornish cliff have you? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14291242 .
G-MANN ◊ 2011-07-29 02:55	Well Ingo isn't a 56 year old woman so maybe he was really the man who helped her (using a false name): Quote Mr Stafford said he had stayed with the woman until rescue teams arrived and kept her calm by talking about "mundane things". -- Last edit: 2011-07-29 02:57:27
Ingo ◊ 2011-07-29 22:20	If someone will be able to fish the Vectra out of the ocean, he can purchase well-preserved headlights from me for fair price. @Antoine: they're MADE FOR GB
electra225 ◊ 2011-08-03 10:37	Vauxhall Badge. I remember that since the Senato facelift early 1983 they were sold in UK as Opel at the beginning and again as Senator since late 1984. -- Last edit: 2011-08-03 10:44:59
electra225 ◊ 2011-08-03 10:42	I have got a German Chevette brochure: There were four model: 2 door sedan, 4 door sedan, 3 door hatchback and 3 door wagon. The funny thing is that they missed the Vauxhall badge everywhere (and didn't have an Opel one indeed...).
rtsbusman1997 ◊ 2020-09-24 10:04	Made for GB
twingoman ◊ 2020-09-24 11:03	We had a Senator A2 back in the early 90's, with a very close registration number (B700AFJ), but ours was a 1985 model

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