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No one really knew for sure what type of car it was until closely inspecting it. The little car parked at the far corner of the field that everyone was curious about, was a 1964 Opel.<\/p>\n<p>One can imagine that an upper middle-class American, perusing a Buick dealership in 1964, was thinking the same thing. Wading through a sea of monstrous Electra 225\u2019s, muscular Wildcats, sexy Rivieras and sporty Skylarks, the potential Buick buyer also may have curiously wondered what that car was parked at the end of the lot. \u201cOh that car,\u201d the salesman may have said, \u201cThat is the new Opel, made in Germany. 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