Trying to locate 1939 Opel Super Six cars, not named Kapitän

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We received a nice report from mr Franklin Moquette about his 1939 Opel Super Six, which is part of a small serie of Opel 'Kapitän' cars which did not receive that particular name. He is now trying to locate the last surviving non-Kapitän Opel Super sixes.

“The Car Show of Geneva has been for over one hundred years an event where the great car brands present their new models. Next year it will be exactly 75 years ago when the then new Opel Kapitän of 1939 was presented. Even as late as last year the Opel Kapitän of 1939 was chosen in the Top-20 of the most exciting dreamcars that ever had their premiere at the Geneva Car Show.

The car made a great impression on my father (Jean Pierre Moquette) too, all the way in the Dutch East Indies, because he ordered one via the Lindeteves-Stokvis trading firm. When he and his family arrived on leave in the Netherlands in July 1939, the Opel Kapitän was waiting for them at the Opel-Vauxhall dealer Van der Valk in The Hague. To his surprise the Opel was not named Kapitän, but 'Super Six'. For political reasons General Motors had chosen to use the name of the previous model instead of the military German name for the export version that was produced in Antwerp (Belgium)."

(photos Frans Moquette)
      

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