Fission modular construction system. and in one nine hundred twenty four before horse power nick. named that tree frog was the first german car to roll off an assembly line. the olympia made its debut in one nine hundred thirty five f.b.i. a international motor show in berlin a plexiglas model showed off its truss like car body framework the body and the chassis comprised a single unit that was simply mounted onto a pre-assembled drive train that included the engine. be interior was eerie featuring as it did opals patented draft prevent a lation the car was equipped with front and rear vent windows there was plenty of space inside as well.
. earlier olympia s had a three speed transmission but starting in one nine hundred thirty seven the model was available with a modern though somewhat notchy four speed gearbox. the previous year opel had introduced the cadet a less costly model based on the olympia featuring a rigid axle with leaf springs in a one point one liter engine it was opals version of the people s car. christo says the opel olympia really was the color of its time as the first mass production car to have a monocoque madi it pointed the way towards the future because starting in the one nine hundred fifty should anybody construction became the standard in modern auto making so christophe feels the opel olympian definitely was a milestone and automotive history. the olympia certainly lived up to the ad slogan the company began using in the one nine hundred thirty s.
The interior is very purist the corduroy material is robust and the more rigid passenger compartment means greater safety for those on board. if you know that mcchrystal says under the hood is one of the first crumple zones in automotive history the front part of this unitized body deforms in a controlled way there is even a predetermined breaking point in this four shape front profile but there was nothing very new about the engine it was a small four cylinder engine which is one point three leaders of displacement and twenty nine horsepower this one here was only available from one nine hundred thirty eight it was a high performance model with one point five liters of capacity thirty seven horsepower and valves here in the cylinder head and made the olympia the best series production car and the one nine hundred thirty eight german alp lanka and it served as the basis for all open four cylinder models through to the one nine hundred sixty s.
A technological trendsetter the open olympia this one was built in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight the olympia was a best seller and one nine hundred thirty five the year that the model was introduced and helped all will become the first german manufacturer to produce more than one hundred thousand cars a year and that made opel europe s biggest automaker but the awful olympia it s the car of its time and the mid one nine hundred thirty s. that was opals ad slogan for its new mass production model says vintage car expert chris thought it might not look very spectacular but under its nondescript exterior is a technological milestone the olympia was the first german mass production model to have a unitized body and uni body construction is still the standard in car making today because by the down notes. from the early twentieth century on opel was a hive of innovation in one thousand nine it s two seater doctors car used in the