For me personally, it’s late ’90s Japanese tuner cars that look like they are ready to take flight, with more pointy carbon fiber bits and pieces than my imagination allows. Thanks, Dino. For Håkan Olofsson from Sweden, it’s his 1975 Opel Ascona A. I caught up with the pair in the 2023 Gatebil Mantorp paddock. […] The post This 750hp Opel Ascona Isn’t Your Average Time Attacker appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

The Opel-Rennbahn (Opel Racetrack) was a test track first and foremost, but when Opel wasn’t putting its vehicles through their paces they opened it up to motorsport events. Around 50,000 spectators would visit the track on the best of days, an astonishing crowd size considering this was the post-war era. One hundred years later, I’m here, standing alone on the […] The post Temple Of Speed: Stumbling Across An Abandoned Test Track appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

In late 2019, I put together a story on the Opel Kadett Superboss – a hot hatch built to take on the BMW 325is that was dominating early-’90s South African Group N racing. Those days are long gone now, but the rivalry amongst owners of these two local homologation specials still lives on. Recently, Mo from CarCandy Inc. thought it was […] The post 325is vs. Kadett Superboss: Celebrating A 30-Year Rivalry appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

In late 2019, I put together a story on the Opel Kadett Superboss – a hot hatch built to take on the BMW 325is that was dominating early-’90s South African Group N racing. Those days are long gone now, but the rivalry amongst owners of these two local homologation specials still lives on. Recently, Mo from CarCandy Inc. thought it was […] The post 325is vs. Kadett Superboss: Celebrating A 30-Year Rivalry appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

Nick Sheward is a self-confessed petrolhead, and a very passionate one at that. As a youngster in the late ’60s and early ’70s, he loved visits to Kyalami racetrack with his father and brother, and even though that’s a long time ago now, many memories have stayed with him over the years, like the Capri Peranas and […] The post Confessions Of A Race Car Restoring Addict appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

Nick Sheward is a self-confessed petrolhead, and a very passionate one at that. As a youngster in the late ’60s and early ’70s, he loved visits to Kyalami racetrack with his father and brother, and even though that’s a long time ago now, many memories have stayed with him over the years, like the Capri Peranas and […] The post Confessions Of A Race Car Restoring Addict appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

In late 2019, I put together a story on the Opel Kadett Superboss – a hot hatch built to take on the BMW 325is that was dominating early-’90s South African Group N racing. Those days are long gone now, but the rivalry amongst owners of these two local homologation specials still lives on. Recently, Mo from CarCandy Inc. thought it was […] The post 325is vs. Kadett Superboss: Celebrating A 30-Year Rivalry appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

In late 2019, I put together a story on the Opel Kadett Superboss – a hot hatch built to take on the BMW 325is that was dominating early-’90s South African Group N racing. Those days are long gone now, but the rivalry amongst owners of these two local homologation specials still lives on. Recently, Mo from CarCandy Inc. thought it was […] The post 325is vs. Kadett Superboss: Celebrating A 30-Year Rivalry appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

Not too long ago, I showed you the Opel Superboss, one of a few South Africa-only specials. The car I’m going to share with you today is even more epic. This is the Opel Kadett 200tS – 151kW (205hp) and 286Nm (211ft-lb) of Golf GTI-destroying performance. The year was 1994, and Delta, the local arm of Opel in South Africa, […] The post Opel Kadett 200tS: The Golf GTI Destroyer appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more

Not too long ago, I showed you the Opel Superboss, one of a few South Africa-only specials. The car I’m going to share with you today is even more epic. This is the Opel Kadett 200tS – 151kW (205hp) and 286Nm (211ft-lb) of Golf GTI-destroying performance. The year was 1994, and Delta, the local arm of Opel in South Africa, […] The post Opel Kadett 200tS: The Golf GTI Destroyer appeared first on Speedhunters ..read more