Re: Paykans

From: DSand95510 (DSand95510(at)aol.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 1998 - 19:19:20 CST


In a message dated 98-01-16 23:51:50 EST, rmaddock(at)petrie.starway.net.au
writes:

>I've got a theory on why British journalists like to list the Paykan as
>being defunct. Up until the late eighties, when the car supposedly ceased
>production, they were made in the UK and shipped to Iran as CKD kits.

Just as an aside: for a time around 1980, Peugoeut (sp?) bartered the Hunter
CKD kits to Iran for barrels of oil. Don't know how many barrels per Paykan.

Dick Sanders
Seattle



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