A thing rarely seen

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 02/26/2016 at 12:06 • Filed to: Opel, Rekord, P2, Iceland

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Seen in an unexpected place, too: Akureyri in Iceland.

Opel Rekord P2, sold for only a couple of years in the 1960s. Very popular in Germany. Options included a fourth gear which was unusual by then.

Party-vi > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 12:12

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At the same time I miss and don’t miss living in Iceland.

Ash78, voting early and often > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 12:23

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Those are some of the tallest Icelandic trees I’ve ever seen!

Surprising sight way up north — I’d expect it to be all 4x4s and subcompacts around there.

Klaus Schmoll > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 12:44

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An older gentleman down the street where I grew up had one. Mind you this was in East Germany, a place where these also don’t belong.

Slant6 > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 12:50

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Cool.

Cé hé sin > Ash78, voting early and often 02/26/2016 at 13:05

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If ever you get lost in an Icelandic forest, just stand up...

Yes, there are a lot of 4wds (some roads, and they use the term road in a general sense, are designated 4wd only). You also see a fair number of huge, petrol American pickups for reasons not immediately obvious given fuel prices.

Cé hé sin > Party-vi 02/26/2016 at 13:07

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The winters wouldn’t be a highlight, no. I think a couple of weeks is enough to see the sights and even Reykjavík would pall after that.

KatzManDu > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 13:35

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Why is this thing begging for a smallblock?

Party-vi > Ash78, voting early and often 02/26/2016 at 13:48

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Right??

Cé hé sin > KatzManDu 02/26/2016 at 14:10

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It is? (lives in a place where nobody has heard of a smallblock)

KatzManDu > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 14:13

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Cé hé sin > KatzManDu 02/26/2016 at 14:19

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A petrol V8? They might have a taste for them in Iceland but here it would be best used as:

MultiplaOrgasms > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 17:10

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Wasn’t Iceland ridiculously rich until a couple years ago?

Cé hé sin > MultiplaOrgasms 02/26/2016 at 18:39

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Banking crash in 2008 followed by unemployment rising from less than 1% to something like 14% followed by a steady recovery.

It was only rich from playing games with money that nobody actually had!

ranwhenparked > Cé hé sin 02/26/2016 at 20:38

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The Icelandic used to have a reputation for taking very good care of their cars. I knew someone who was stationed there with the US military, he was fascinated by the relatively advanced ages of all the cars driven by local contractors and townspeople, but noted that they were all meticulously maintained and that it was something of a lunchtime ritual for the employees to go out to the parking lot and buff and polish their cars with their break time.

Supposedly, import duties on cars were so unaffordably high at the time that it basically conditioned people to just hold on to what they had and take care of it.

I don’t know if that’s purely anecdotal or part of a national trend, or if it was, if it’s even still like that there (this would have been in the ‘70s).

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin 02/27/2016 at 08:13

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awesome find!