Cherokee, hope this is some consolation to you. Showed up at CMP a couple of weeks back and low and behold there is a beautiful silver and red Opel GT (1.9) running in ITB. Have never seen it before, and it ran pretty much flawlessly all weekend. Rookie driver did a damn good job with it too.

They can be made to run, but like you say, oddballs sometimes seem like a son of the devil.