Strange, your Opel was more reliable than mine. I bought a '68 Opel Kadett (in 1980) as a second car. It was your basic $500 car. I sweated everytime I had to drive it from Ames to Des Moines for my NG drills. The wife got the reliable Gremlin. I nursed it for about a year before selling it to another student. It was fun to drive, it just had a bad habit of going dead for no apparent reason.

Why do I have to waste my time outwitting morons?