On Mon, 19 Jan 1998 07:59:49 +1100 Russell Maddock
<rmaddock(at)petrie.starway.net.au> writes:
>I just had a dig around in my library and came up with the following
>specs on
>the ohv 1600 Avenger motor:
>
>bore: 87.3mm
>stroke: 66.7mm
>displacing 1598cc
>bhp: 69
>
>This matches the specs for the Paykan pick up.
>
>I doubt this version of the motor was ever available in Crickets
>though.
>It
>first appeared in the UK in 1976. I think the Cricket had disappeared
>by
>then.
The Cricket ran here in the US in 1500cc form, but alledgedly that engine
made like 100 BHP.
Yeah, I think 73 was about the time Dodge pulled the plug on that one.
I see them from time to time in the classifieds, and I am sure I could
snatch one up for a few hundred dollars, which makes it very cost
effective
for a Rootes conscious racing team.
I would consider taking up an Imp, but that game has been played before,
and I'm pretty sure that no one has done serious racing in an "Avenger"
In the US.
The only thing really detering me from an Imp or an Avenger is the parts
availability problem in the US.
>I thought afterwards that might be what you meant. (I meant to use a
>smiley
>after that remark too)
>
>In defence of the Australian Falcon though (and I can't believe I'm
>defending
>them - I'm always "jabbing" at friends with Falcons or GM Holden
>Commodores)
>the current one bears little relationship to the '60s original. At the
>end of
>the seventies it had an affair with Europe's Ford Granada Mk II. The
>current
>car uses a shell distantly descended from the modified Granada body.
>It
>wouldn't surprise me though if the running gear can be traced back to
>the
>sixties Falcon. The Argentinian Falcon is a completely different car.
The Argentinian Falcon is exactly a 60s sheetmetal falcon with a "new"
plastisided grill to add that special 90s styling to an otherwise 60s
car.
The government really has a lot of these cars, and Ive even seen
something that looks like a limo.
Ask anyone in Argentina, you dont mess around or talk badly of that
car, or they will take you away never to be seen again.
We never got any of those Granada's in the states, or at least the sporty
ones to which you refer.
Here, a granada was a somewhat of an ugly car, not sporty at all.
Think it used a Maverick 200cid six for power.
We did get a slight treat in the form of a re-badged Ford Sierra, but it
was called an XR4Ti, came will a very flammable turbo pinto engine.
I'd have bought one if it had the 16v 2.0 Cossie engine, have no use
for recylcled pinto/Mustange SVO hardware though.
What in hades is a Holden Commodore?
No. dont tell me, you guys still make Nova\Chevelle SS down under!
Jarrid Gross
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