Although you were pretty much thrown to death with Opels in the Netherlands in 1980, you could really make a splash with a few models. The Commodore was one of them. This example will have received a lot of admiring glances in its time.
With a certain melancholy we think back to the time when bread and butterbrands still had very thick sedans in their offer. Today, Opel does not go further than the Insignia, but we like to think back to the Omega and even longer ago you had the Commodore. The latter was a more luxurious, higher marketed brother of the Rekord. Only if you had a Senator, you did even better, but in a Commodore you could certainly be seen very well.
Although having the same outer and inner dimensions, the Commodore was positioned a step higher than the Rekord with which it shared its base. The Commordore distinguished itself with the more exuberant use of chrome parts and a more modern nose. The front largely matched that of the larger Senator. The last Commodore was therefore really a bit of an intermediate model at the top of the Opel range and that contributed to the fact that he had difficulty justifying his right to exist. The Commodore distinguished itself technically by the use of six-in-line engines, where the Rekord had to make do with four-cylinder engines. The last Commodore has remained relatively rare, because after four years the curtain fell in 1982. The Rekord and Senator received a facelift that year, but the Commodore book was closed due to disappointing sales. Anyone who takes such a Commodore C into the house has a special piece of Opel history in front of the door.
If that’s not convincing enough, the condition of this blue specimen might be. It still appears to be in excellent condition for its age and the apparently hard condition of the wheel arches is certainly worth a big thumbs up. Roest sometimes wanted to herald an early end for Opels from that time. The color scheme can also receive our approval. In the interior it is a blue party, typical of (mostly the more luxurious) cars from that time. The supplier states that the Opel is still in original condition, has had two owners and has only run 66,000 km. That sounds like music to our ears. At €6,450, the asking price is not too bad in our opinion, although it is still difficult to estimate what people are willing to pay for something like this. One thing is clear: this Commodore deserves a real enthusiast as a new owner!
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl