Yes, we have arrived safe and well in the year two-thousand-and-fourteen. The eve itself was celebrated quietly with family and neighbours, but now things are ready to continue blow upon blow at the edelschmiede! The web – shophas been well-received and many of our regular customers are pleased that we finally have our own interface and they are spared from dealing with eBay. Many newer...

[Picture caption: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the edelschmiede team]   We’re looking back on an action-packed year: The edelschmiede has further asserted itself in the marketplace, has found and incorporated important Opel rear-wheel-drive spare parts or had them reproduced and has reached many new regular customers. We have just recently opened the new web-shop, which is...

As I already mentioned in my last post, very soon the edelschmiede will have it’s own shop 🙂 🙂 We are currently working on it daily and now we need your help and support; Every category of items needs its own corresponding cover picture. This would be, for instance, a picture of the Opel rear-wheel-drive ‘Ascona A’, or maybe a photo showing an ‘OHV engine’. Which is where you come in, as we...

I never thought that I would devote an entire blog post to the lowly cog, but this really is a cracker: We’ve spared neither cost nor effort and can now, *drum roll*, offer you an edelschmiede reproduction of the blue speedometer gear for cih transmissions! As customers ewre constantly asking after this piece, we decided to reintroduce this worm gear to the market! For those not in the know: the...

…or: the winter break is back!   As of yesterday, for many vintage-Opel & rear-wheel-drive drivers, the wicked wintertime is once again omnipresent. The seasonal license plates have banished our Manta, Ascona, Senator and Kadetts back to the garage. My Ascona is no exception, with the active months spanning April to October. With a tear in my eye, I picked up my son Hannes from...