Today's car of the day is Yat Ming's 1970 Opel Admiral.
The Opel Admiral was a luxury car made by the German car manufacturer Opel from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1964 to 1977.
For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Opel Admiral
One of Yat Ming's original 24 models, this one is purely Yat Ming- it's obviously a copy of something (all early Yat Mings are) but this one appears to have been shrunken from a larger scale offering. Does anyone know what may have inspired this one? As far as I know this is the only Admiral in small scale.
The Admiral B was introduced just in time for the Geneva Motor Show in March 1969 together with the new Kapitän and Diplomat. While the Kapitän was discontinued after May 1970, Admiral and Diplomat survived until 1977; they were replaced by the Senator in 1978.
Over the whole production run, the Admiral B was available exclusively with a 2.8 liter-inline six in either 1-bbl (132 PS/130 hp; Opel Admiral) or 2-bbl (145 PS/143 hp; Opel Admiral 2800 S) form or with fuel injection (165 PS/163 hp; Opel Admiral E). This was the first time fuel injection had been offered as an option in an Opel. All engines could be paired with a 4-speed manual or with Opel's own 3-speed automatic transmission. From January 1972 the manual was no longer available with the Admiral E, leaving the automatic as the only choice. For the back axle, the big change for the Admiral B was the fitting of a De Dion tube based suspension.
For the model year 1975, the six was reworked and downrated to 129/140/160 PS in a move to reduce emissions.
Opel built about 33,000 Admiral B models from 1969 to 1977.
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