Films – March 20, 2026
Twin Turbo. No Safety Net. The Last Widowmaker.
Django. The Röhrl Ascona Lost in Africa.
by Kris Clewell -
Ralf Antweiler's hands smelled like gearbox oil for weeks when he was eight. Decades later, a stranger in a Nairobi hotel bar mentioned an Opel Ascona 400. An address got pressed into his hand at four in the morning. Two years later, he knocked on a door in a side district of Nairobi and found the car that won Walter Röhrl the 1982 World Rally Championship. Disassembled. Scattered across a property. Complete.
Six years of restoration followed. The steering wheel was cleaned with shoe polish and put back with every mark intact. The door panels still carry the red earth of Kenya. They always will. RA40 was the last rear-wheel drive car to win a WRC drivers' title. Opel believed it was gone forever.
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