Oldtimer picture gallery. Cars. Opel.
1899-1943, 1946-on, Adam Opel AG., Rüsselsheim a. Main, Germany.
?-1939-?, (General Motors Corp.)?, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Opel Kadett K38 1937-40, 1942, 1943 (20.0% of pre-1945 Opel cars in USSR), 74206 built
Opel Olympia OL38 1937-40, 1943 (15.5%), 87214 built
Opel Olympia 1935-37 (10.9%), 81661 built
Opel 2,0 L 1933-37 ( 8.5%), 52594 built
Opel Kapitän, 1938-40, 1943 ( 7.5%), 25374 built, export name - still Opel Super 6
Opel Super 6, 1936-38 ( 7.4%), 46453 built
Opel-P4, 1935-37 ( 6.6%), 65864 built + (15672+7405) Lieferwagen (1935-1938-1940)
Opel-Admiral, 1937-39 ( 5.7%), 6404 built
Opel Kadett 1936-37 ( 3.3%), 33402 built
Opel-1,2 L, 1931-35 ( 2.3%), 101563 built + 6411 Lieferwagen (1931-1935)
Opel-1,3L, 1933-35 ( 2.2%), 29002 built
Others and registered merely as Opel (10.1%):
Opel-mPI, 1940-1943, few thousand built
Opel-Geländesportwagen, 1937, ? built, 36k b/w photo from W.Schmarbeck/B.Fischer
"Alle Opel Automobile", 1989, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart
Opel-1,8 L, 1931-1933, 32285 built + 1520 Lieferwagen (1931-1933)
Opel-1,0 L, 1932-1933, 5600 built, 27k b/w photo from W.Schmarbeck/B.Fischer
"Alle Opel Automobile", 1989, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart
Opel 8/40 PS, 1928-1930, 20580 built (in sum with 7/34 PS Model), 46k b/w photo (1928) Opel
Opel 4/20 PS (1,1 Liter), 1928-1931, 119484 built (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS,
4/18PS, 4/20PS)
Opel 4/18 PS, 1927-1928, 119484 built, (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS,
4/18PS, 4/20PS), 70k photo eBay
Opel 10/40 PS, 1928-1929, 4276 built
Opel 24/110 PS Regent, 1928-1929, about 25 built, 44k b/w photo (1928) Opel
Opel 14/50 PS (Modell 90), 1929-1930, 89 built, 45k photo Opel
Opel 16/60 PS (Modell 100), 1929, 39 built, 39k photo Opel
Opel 4/16 PS, 1926-1928, 119484 built, (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS,
4/18PS, 4/20PS), 38k photo Opel
Opel 7/34 PS, 1927-1928, 20580 built (in sum with 8/40 PS Model), 49k b/w photo (1927) Opel
Opel 12/50 PS (Modell 90) & 15/60 PS (Modell 100), 1927-1928 (both), 3445 built
Opel RAK II, 1928, prototype, 50k photo Opel
Opel RAK I, 1928, prototype, 53k b/w photo Opel
Opel 10/45 PS (Modell 80) (10/49PS), 1925-1927, 8885 built,
65k b/w photo (1925) from W.Schmarbeck/B.Fischer "Alle Opel Automobile", 1989
Opel 4/12 PS "Laubfrosch", 1924-1925, 119484 built, (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS,
4/18PS, 4/20PS) 67k and 111k (1924) (photos Emil Zasmeta (Plzen) and "Svet Motoru", CSSR).
Opel 4/16 PS, 1926-1927, 119484 built, (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS, 4/18PS,
4/20PS), 24k b/w photo (1925) from W.Schmarbeck/B.Fischer "Alle Opel Automobile", 1989
Opel 4/14 PS, 1924-1926, 119484 built, (all 1924-1931 4/12PS, 4/14 PS, 4/16PS,
4/18PS, 4/20PS), 43k b/w photo Opel
Opel 30/75 PS (30/80 PS), 1918-1920, 1921-1923 (1924-1927), ? built
Opel 21/55 PS (21/50 PS, 21/60 PS), 1918-1921 (1921-1923, 1924-1925), ? built
Opel 9/30 PS, 1924, ? built
Opel 10/30 PS (10/35 PS), 1922-1923 (1924-1925), ? built, 36k photo Opel
Opel 14/48 PS, 1924-1925, ? built
Opel 8/25PS (8/21PS (8 M 21), 8/25PS), 1919-1920 (1921-1922-1923), ? built, 54k photo Opel
Opel 14/38 PS, 1918-1923, ? built
Opel 9/25 PS, 1921-1922, ? built
5/14 PS Opel "Puppchen", 1913-1914, 1915-1920, ? built
18/50 PS Opel Motorwagen, 1916-1920, ? built
40/100 PS Opel Motorwagen, 1919-1920, few built
Opel 6/14PS (or 8/16PS), 1910, 55k, 98k doktorwagen, photo George Koopman (the Netherlands)
Some post-war models (because the gallery is generally about pre-1945):
(pictures are courtesy of Jose Manuel Pinto Ferreira da Costa (Lisbon). They are from Portuguese OPELISTAS (Opel Fans in Portuguese) meeting, 20 and 21 of April 2001. This black 1954 Opel Olympia Record is car of Jose.
1954 Opel Olympia Rekord (50k photo),
1956 Opel Rekord (49k photo) and rear view (46k photo),
1957 Opel Rekord (51k photo) and rear view (47k photo).
Opel passenger car production (by Eckhart Bartels, 1940-43 Opel-mPI not included):
Years 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
Units 22625 17896 35704 63581 89324 99096 106093 114203 90858 5420 0 3 11
Years 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
Units 582 1314 1496 724 4417 15280 10653 34130 35623 29467 23292
What else in the net:
Opel Classic Automobiles
redaktion@alt-opel.de - E-mail address of editor of "Der Zuverlässige" - magazine of Alt-Opel Club, Hannover, Germany.
Opel - official site of Opel
Opel page of Rui Gonçalves (in Portuguese), Portugal.
Most part of information is from Yu.A.Halfan's book:"Description of foreign firms cars construction", Moscow, 1948
Thanks a lot to Phil Seed (Leidschendam, Netherlands), to incognito from Vilnius and to Denis Orlov (classic car journalist, Moscow) for help.
You are welcome to write me by E-mail Contact. Andrei Bogomolov.
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Last updated 10 X 2000.