Safety, man, they were thinking safety... https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/aurora-1957/
3 speed, no radio ... wonder if it has a heater ? This one cost less than a Styleline Deluxe Chevy with R&H ...
First you tell people they can't talk about anything political. Then you change the subject by limiting what you once could then can no longer post. But all that starts in the indoctrination centers AKA universities.
I had a Opel the same color as the one in the picture when I was stationed in Germany, 4 cyl, 4speed on the column. Busted the trans rolling backwards down a hill trying to do a burn out! $20 US dollars down the drain but junked it at the PDO yard for $40. The next one I got was a 64 Opel Record for $75 from a guy that was getting out. Great little car, my wife and I ran all over Europe in it. It too was a 4 cyl, 4 speed on the column. I had flex pipe dual exhaust on it, bucket seats out of a wrecked GI owned 66 GTO and chrome lug nuts, I was stylen' Drove it for 18 months and sold it to another GI for $150!