 It would have made sense to start building the Kapitän a year earlier, as the engine was also used in the Opel Blitz trucks at the time, but the occupation regulations prohibited civilian sales of passenger cars of over 1.5 liters' displacement.Initial production was reserved for the occupying powers, but sales to private customers started in 1949.There was no sign of the wide range of coupé and cabriolet bodies that had broadened the model's appeal in the 1930s