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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
The discussion on engine posters reminded me of a unique poster I used to own of an Opel Aero GT that never made it into production. It was a press release type poster of a the Aero version with a sectional view of the body & engine IIRC.
It differed from the Opel GT model as it was more like the Lotus Europa at the rear end.
Sadly after my divorce in 1978 the poster was lost.

The Opel GT car made by Opel in LHD only, they had to be collected from Harwich in person by the retailing dealership. I was lucky enough to pick two up from the port and drive them back to Derby. They had popup headlamps that rotated by means of a manual lever that looked like a handbrake! They did not flip up and down like a Lotus but rotated sideways on a vertical pivot. www.carandclassic.com/la/C1903296

They were imported into the UK mainly for US personnel, at bases as well as to employees of General Motors Companies of old like Fridgidare, RR & Associates in Derby etc that built reactors for submarines. Very few were bought by private UK buyers due to it being LHD.

It would have looked good on my garage wall today.https://flic.kr/p/nY8n6w

K2-K6:
They fettled an example of such on Wheeler dealers USA iteration I believe (it's that model) Ted.

Interesting your experience of it, and quite a individual design too.

Their's was a dark metallic green one, with various knocks and running inconsistencies. A reasonably lucid view of it on their program.

A few publications had someone draw interesting vehicles in that period, gave decent insight to the designs of the times.

I watch an American content on YT of a guy who runs a scrap/recycle business, dismantling various car engines, mostly with catastrophic failure, all of which are really informative as to limitations and failure node that occur.

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