Opel Rekord '68 Sprint, 4-door Sedan

[ziemniak]

Hallo Leute!
Welcome!
I'm sorry, but I'm going to write in english, because my German is very bad unfortunately :/
Me and my friend, have recently buyed Opel Rekord from 1968, in Sprint version. As far as I know it is very rare 4-door version. I'm looking for any infos about this model, manuals and parts .

We are also looking for some photos of this specified model , because it is hard to find ANY on the internet.
Also we are very curious, what is missing / is not original in our car - maybe somebody could give us advice on this subject

Bitte, schreiben Sie auch in Deutsch, ich kenne ein bisschen diese Sprache

Vielen Dank fur Deine Antworte

Thank You for all Your replies
Foto;

[Reverend Garrett]

where are you from? from a german perspective it seems that your new car already passed away...

for more info (not sprint specific) check this site (owned by the most maniac mechanic throughout germany)

http://www.graf-vlad.de/inhalt/alte_kisten.html

good luck anyhow

[hannes]

welcome,

you can find a lot of pictures in our gallery (even some sprint models)

[Benny Benson]

Hi and welcome

Interessting Car, could you make a better picture of the engine?!
The Sprint Engine should have 2 double Carburetors, Engine Number starts with 19H

You can get some Sprint specific informations from Vlads Site:
http://www.graf-vlad.de/inhalt/alte_kis ... coupe.html

Your Grill is from a Opel Commodore A and instead of the "1900" there has to be the "Sprint" lettering on your trunk.

Here is another site, where you can download a Article from Graf Vlad about the Sprint with many pictures
http://www.alt-opel.eu/index.php?sn=clubzeitung06

If it's really a 4 Door Sprint, it would worth it to bring it back on the street

[ziemniak]

Hi and welcome

Interessting Car, could you make a better picture of the engine?!
The Sprint Engine should have 2 double Carburetors, Engine Number starts with 19H
[...]
Your Grill is from a Opel Commodore A and instead of the "1900" there has to be the "Sprint" lettering on your trunk.
[...]
If it's really a 4 Door Sprint, it would worth it to bring it back on the street

Hey there Yep, it's very interesting

Thanks for the info about the grill.

The engine is unfortunately not original according to previous owner ;/ We didn't check the numbers on it yet.
When we are going to check it, I'll write here as soon as possible.

I hope it's a 4-door sprint, as far as i know it is quite rare nowadays

EDIT; another thing! I have papers from year 1990 - it says that in this car is an engine numbered; 19HL0004496

where are you from? from a german perspective it seems that your new car already passed away...

I'm from Poland From our polish perspective, Rekord needs some help, and it will fly again It sure is dead now

[CaM]

Hello to Poland,

Opel build around 1250 4-door Sprint Rekord.
So People, start your Restoring.....

[Klingonen-Thomas]

Hi and welcome

Interessting Car, could you make a better picture of the engine?!
The Sprint Engine should have 2 double Carburetors, Engine Number starts with 19H
[...]
Your Grill is from a Opel Commodore A and instead of the "1900" there has to be the "Sprint" lettering on your trunk.
[...]
If it's really a 4 Door Sprint, it would worth it to bring it back on the street

Hey there Yep, it's very interesting

Thanks for the info about the grill.

The engine is unfortunately not original according to previous owner ;/ We didn't check the numbers on it yet.
When we are going to check it, I'll write here as soon as possible.

I hope it's a 4-door sprint, as far as i know it is quite rare nowadays

EDIT; another thing! I have papers from year 1990 - it says that in this car is an engine numbered; 19HL0004496

where are you from? from a german perspective it seems that your new car already passed away...

I'm from Poland From our polish perspective, Rekord needs some help, and it will fly again It sure is dead now

It really looks like mass of work to do.

But nevertheless,

welcome here and I wish you a lot of sucess with your new project.

[gintonic]

nice project !!!

- just make a picture from any questionable part/section of the car and
we will help you !

Cheers

[ziemniak]

So we sterted to strip the car a bit.
Front grill
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9002/100328134339.jpg
Sirens <Polish production - if somebody could show me how the original looks, I would be very grateful
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1913 ... 134329.jpg
Guess something lived behind this headlamp
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/2334 ... 134512.jpg
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2780 ... 134459.jpg
http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/5083 ... 135700.jpg

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8346 ... 143417.jpg
Never rekor emblems :/
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6623 ... 143238.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1269 ... 35635l.jpg

After stripping the paint in some places we got to this, that the car used to be silver probably at the beggining. On the back, we found the black paint <as in Sprint>. No stripes on the car thoug - could anybody write if the stripes were painted, or these were some kind of stickers <I'm talking about the two black Sprint stripes going through the whole car>

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1428 ... 143228.jpg
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/4504 ... 143251.jpg

[hannes]

as far as i know the stripes were painted.