In the service of the competition: Opel Kadett B with mid-engine
At first glance only, this is a lousy snapshot of a random Opel Kadett Caravan. On closer inspection, two dark spots on the hips of the small station wagon stand out in the coarse-grained celluloid mud, too geometrically shaped for ordinary road dirt. What are they instead? Air intakes! Because in this Kadett Caravan there is no upright OHV sewing machine between the front wheels - but a horizontal OHC construction under the rear seat bench.
That's right, this station wagon has a mid-engine - and is therefore virtually an ideal predecessor of the Toyota Previa or JP Kraemer's extreme conversions of the "Thunderbunny" type. But unlike them, the centrally powered Opel was purely a test vehicle. Porsche tested the technology of the designated and ultimately rejected successor to the VW EA 266 Beetle in the Bochum costume. As 48 of the 50 pre-production vehicles were subsequently destroyed by a tank, the Kadett probably did not survive either.
