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Opel tried to flog their models here in the 50s and 60s - but must have been very few sold. Interestingly* London seems to have had a fair few of the more unusual foreign makes. Here's an Olympia Caravan.
German makes also had a crack in the UK in the late 30s - a friend's great uncle was the Auto Union dealer in London and till a few years ago the family had an original 1938 DKW in the garage. DKWs were the most popular, I think, but hardly made an impact and then other events got in the way.

Opel tried to flog their models here in the 50s and 60s - but must have been very few sold. Interestingly* London seems to have had a fair few of the more unusual foreign makes. Here's an Olympia Caravan.
German makes also had a crack in the UK in the late 30s - a friend's great uncle was the Auto Union dealer in London and till a few years ago the family had an original 1938 DKW in the garage. DKWs were the most popular, I think, but hardly made an impact and then other events got in the way.

This 1938 Opel, with extended bootlid, was in regular "normal" use till a couple of years ago in rural Romania. There's a rebodied Willys Jeep from 1942 which was also going strong till recently - and quite a few prewar cars made it into the 90s. One guy bought a BMW 327 new before the war and kept it till 2005, having fled with it to West Germany in the late 60s. 
Stayed with a French family a few years ago who were still using Land Rovers they'd bought new in the 50s.
I've kept the Saab 90 for 17 years and it was 20 years old when I got it...

Opel tried to flog their models here in the 50s and 60s - but must have been very few sold. Interestingly* London seems to have had a fair few of the more unusual foreign makes. Here's an Olympia Caravan.
German makes also had a crack in the UK in the late 30s - a friend's great uncle was the Auto Union dealer in London and till a few years ago the family had an original 1938 DKW in the garage. DKWs were the most popular, I think, but hardly made an impact and then other events got in the way.

Opel tried to flog their models here in the 50s and 60s - but must have been very few sold. Interestingly* London seems to have had a fair few of the more unusual foreign makes. Here's an Olympia Caravan.
German makes also had a crack in the UK in the late 30s - a friend's great uncle was the Auto Union dealer in London and till a few years ago the family had an original 1938 DKW in the garage. DKWs were the most popular, I think, but hardly made an impact and then other events got in the way.

This 1938 Opel, with extended bootlid, was in regular "normal" use till a couple of years ago in rural Romania. There's a rebodied Willys Jeep from 1942 which was also going strong till recently - and quite a few prewar cars made it into the 90s. One guy bought a BMW 327 new before the war and kept it till 2005, having fled with it to West Germany in the late 60s. 
Stayed with a French family a few years ago who were still using Land Rovers they'd bought new in the 50s.
I've kept the Saab 90 for 17 years and it was 20 years old when I got it...

This 1938 Opel, with extended bootlid, was in regular "normal" use till a couple of years ago in rural Romania. There's a rebodied Willys Jeep from 1942 which was also going strong till recently - and quite a few prewar cars made it into the 90s. One guy bought a BMW 327 new before the war and kept it till 2005, having fled with it to West Germany in the late 60s. 
Stayed with a French family a few years ago who were still using Land Rovers they'd bought new in the 50s.
I've kept the Saab 90 for 17 years and it was 20 years old when I got it...

This 1938 Opel, with extended bootlid, was in regular "normal" use till a couple of years ago in rural Romania. There's a rebodied Willys Jeep from 1942 which was also going strong till recently - and quite a few prewar cars made it into the 90s. One guy bought a BMW 327 new before the war and kept it till 2005, having fled with it to West Germany in the late 60s. 
Stayed with a French family a few years ago who were still using Land Rovers they'd bought new in the 50s.
I've kept the Saab 90 for 17 years and it was 20 years old when I got it...

This 1938 Opel, with extended bootlid, was in regular "normal" use till a couple of years ago in rural Romania. There's a rebodied Willys Jeep from 1942 which was also going strong till recently - and quite a few prewar cars made it into the 90s. One guy bought a BMW 327 new before the war and kept it till 2005, having fled with it to West Germany in the late 60s. 
Stayed with a French family a few years ago who were still using Land Rovers they'd bought new in the 50s.
I've kept the Saab 90 for 17 years and it was 20 years old when I got it...

One UK market Duster has survived in .... Murmansk. Apparently imported in around 1990 by a local sailor. Seems to be in nice nick too.

Ladies and gentlemen .. I give you the Dacia Funeral. Made by an East German coachbuilder in the early 80s. 
 
Romania is generally full of shit hearses - just google image "vanzare dric" for some absolute crackers. Best I've seen was on a Fiat 125 base. 

There are three left, which is pretty impressive given only 481 24s made it over. Sadly the guy who  took the photo can't remember where exactly, but there was a lot of interest around it last year. 
Here's the same car in the 80s. 

There are three left, which is pretty impressive given only 481 24s made it over. Sadly the guy who  took the photo can't remember where exactly, but there was a lot of interest around it last year. 
Here's the same car in the 80s. 

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Bucharest, 1974. Oddly proportioned sedan. I wouldn't be fixated on the Eastern bloc location - literally anything could be found on its streets back then. Opel Rekord perhaps?

Looks like a homemade attempt at an Opel Rekord A to me:

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it

Imagine the name had Ghia done it