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| Rear Trim Strip |
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99 | 40.24% |
| Hella Right Side Rear Marker light |
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4 | 1.63% |
| Hella Left side Rear Marker light |
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6 | 2.44% |
| Original Drivers Side Mirror |
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8 | 3.25% |
| Original Passenger Side Mirror (Euro) |
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30 | 12.20% |
| Bumpers |
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9 | 3.66% |
| Floor Panels |
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15 | 6.10% |
| Rockers |
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6 | 2.44% |
| Body Panels |
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15 | 6.10% |
| Ignition Switch |
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54 | 21.95% |
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Inner tie rods and lower ball joints are getting more difficult to find lately.
Vickie
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Concord, California
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Rarest Part
The rear molding is a tough one, so is the ignition. If we are talking original, the duckbill drain that the roof vents drain out of the body. OGTS makes reproductions, but I have never seen originals.
Bob
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Rice Cooker
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Spring Church, PA
Posts: 1,787
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Early rear axle bearing perhaps?
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Reidsville N.C.
Posts: 2,160
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The little panel on the drivers side that covered the access to the flasher on the bottom of the instrument panel. There was one on Ebay last week. They often were thrown away. Also the plastic cover for the fuses. My opinion, Jarrell
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Leonard, Texas
Posts: 888
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Rare parts
Body panels, floor panels and the rear trim are the hardest to find, everything else is reproduced. I am fortunate to have three rear trim pieces in good to excellant shape and one NOS still in the Opel GM wrapper. The clips are hard to locate but I think I could find some that would work at a GM dealer ship, I hope.
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Old Opeler
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 5,686
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Thanks eBay .....
Thanks to eBay and a member or two on this site I have been able to source most every part needed. Even found a couple of NOS headlight covers when the bodyshop told me the originals looked like they had been sat on and bent out of shape. As for the rear trim mounting clips; a search for them turned up zilch so the bodyshop guy suggested filling the holes in the body when the rear panel was repaired. Then blasting and filling the trim strip itself with urethane body filler ( the strip was made up out of several separate sections welded together ). The strip was then stuck onto the car body and neatly filled along the join to look like it is actually still a bolt-on strip. Result = no holes in the rear edge and no rust trap on the inside of the trim strip. It looks superb.
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Cunning Linguist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Plano, TX 75074
Posts: 4,441
Real Name: Otto
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Rear trim panel, matching "stock" right mirror, plastic fuse cover, duckbills, rubber boot around fuel line fitting at tank, resonator bumper, cable clip for heater water valve, engine cradle spacers (you'd be amazed at how many GTs no longer have these once the engine's been out).
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Detritus Maximus
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: St. Louis MO
Posts: 1,160
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Properly functioning Solex.
Rally/driving light support bar. VDO oil sender with correct rubber cover.
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Senior Contributor
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Casey, IL USA
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rear trim piece, front emblem, and uncracked original fuse block. oh yeah a brake booster!!!! MY solex works good... well it did, still debating if it was only the booster... i think its fine,I'll let ya know when I find a brake booster... i gotta stick up for those original opel parts!!! all i can say is that before the brake booster took a crap on me, the carb worked great....
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Opel Key Master
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,301
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Rarest part....
I think the plastic chrome strip with clips that goes along the front opening of the body is the hardest to find original-it cracks and usually isn't flexible enough to use over. I have NOS clips for them, but no trim-been using 3m fender trim moulding, works well.
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GT Spyder
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Winston, GA
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Rare parts
I am new at this, but I couldn't find an original clock that works. I took a shot at repairing mine... and it works now! I just didn't want to spend the big bucks for a replacement quarts version.
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That's right, it's a Spyder, just like all the others you have seen... Rice Boy! :rolleyes: Dallas 1970 GT Spyder 2-1972 GTs 1971 GT (70k miles) |
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Salfordville, PA
Posts: 2,143
Real Name: Jeff
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An unbroken plastic heater control plate for the GT
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Opel GT? Who makes that?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Ayr, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 632
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i don't know if it was just bad timing or if it is really hard to find but when i looked for door handles and window cranks i couldn't find anything anywhere, even our beloved ebay didn't have them... thank god for parts cars
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opel free after 26 years
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: sunderland england
Posts: 4,941
Real Name: barry williams
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pvcar which bit do you want?
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Copyright © 2003-2009 barry williams All Rights Reserved save praying to God for sunday today we pray to Nike and run like hell Last edited by baz; 12-01-2004 at 01:24 PM. |
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1000 Post Club
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Atlanta GA
Posts: 1,268
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Rear Trim on ebay!!
For those of you that are looking for a rear trim, Ebay has one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...938976432&rd=1 Good Luck
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