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They're a remarkable piece of history for sure, but quite pointless. A carb-fed 13B rotary just isn't very well suited to the task of dragging around a full-size luxury car. Supposedly they weighed 1575kg if you believe Wikipedia, which sounds about right for a Premier with A/C and all the options, including a lot of Roadpacer-only bits like the wing mirrors. The Holden V8 would be much faster and use a lot less fuel than the rotary, but it's certainly an historically interesting car. Not least becaus of the very idea of Mazda importing their range-topping halo car from Australia. I drive a Mustang II. Possibly the only car which wouldn't make the Mazda seem underpowered. using a Cosmo motor or a turbo'd RX7 lump might liven life up a little. Alternatively really mess things up by using an LS1 motor.
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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The Roadpacer reputedly did as bad as 6mpg with the rotary though! Not really what you want when the V8 will do more than triple that easily.
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I thought these would have come up by now: Santanna 4x4 (a Spanish company). Wonder what that's based on? has a 2.8 iveco turbo diesel and leaf springs. While this is the 300/350. Do I need to draw a picture of what it was in it's first life? Everyone's missed two glaringly obvious ones, both old BMC products...
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And as an aside; someone has GOT to import one of these and gatecrash VW shows: "Oi, you can't come in with that Hillman Aven-
never mind...
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Last Edit: Nov 7, 2010 2:01:15 GMT by e21meister
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Everyone's missed two glaringly obvious ones, both old BMC products... Struggling to think of one they didn't keep building themselves, years past their sell-by date Innocenti Mini (1965-1975): Austin/Carbodies/LTI FX4 (1958-1997)
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arrocuda, the Brazillian Chevrolet Opalia or Opel Rekord C was never sold in Australia. The Holden Monaro which debuted in 1968 was entirely an own design by Holden Australia and came with a choice of 2 different sized 6 cylinder motors and a v8 The Opala/Rekord looks similar in shape to the Monaro and is in fact a 4 cylinder car only. If you look at a Holden Monaro, the rear side window outline is entirely different to that of the car pictured and there no cke bottle style contour along the belt line as we see in the picture of the Opela/Rekord. You are correct that aChevrolet SS badged vwersion of the Holden Monaro was sold in South Africa but these were cks kits exported from Australia and fitted with a v8 or Chevrolet 6 when assembled by GM's SouthAfrican subsiguary. The Monaro/SS was never the car shown in the picture
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79cord
Posted a lot
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Whoa, ancient argument. So lets advance the thread! Argentinian '60 ford falcon evolution until '91. Does a 1954 Kaiser retired to Argentina from the US until 1962 count?
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Don't think it's been mentioned yet - the Moke lived on in Australia long after UK production ended, then the tooling was shipped to Portugal where it carried on until 1993.
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63 Alpine Series III 69 Imp Sport 930 07 Golf V GTI 11 Freelander 2 (hers!)
70 Hunter Royal (scrapped), 78 Chrysler Alpine GLS (given away), 84 505 STi (sold), 01 206 1.6XR (sold)
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kens
Part of things
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Think this fits the topic title perfectly: I give you the BAIC C71 Can you see what it is yet?
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'85 900i 4dr '88 900 Turbo8 3dr '72 99 cm4 '83 99 gl 2dr '93 900 lpturbo 5dr so many doors
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Saab 9-5
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2009 Jaguar X-Type 2010 Volvo C30
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Mar 30, 2011 22:52:23 GMT
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how hard to import from turkey? need a 131 ;D
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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The 2008 Peugeot 504
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Jan 14, 2015 16:25:08 GMT
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Now, I reeeeaally fancy one of them! I mean, looookit! Would love one of those Hindustan Victors too. So does anyone have any idea on what's involved in importing one?
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Jan 14, 2015 16:29:00 GMT
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Now, I reeeeaally fancy one of them! I mean, looookit! Would love one of those Hindustan Victors too. So does anyone have any idea on what's involved in importing one?
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