Our new R Series Valiant

[Mick Jagger]

Lucky very lucky, you could make a nice couch out of youre old one

[ValleyMistEK]

That'd certainly be a UNIQUE couch!



We're actually planning on listing it on eBay for $5K in the hopes that someone might be able to use ALL of the parts on it, or (god knows it'd take 'em YEARS of weekends) actually bring it back to life...

I drove it around this arvo, and BOY is it a go-hard car when driven as a manual! (The black one was pushbutton auto)

[Alastair Saxton]

Did you know that about 200 of your Valiants like that, were assembled in South Africa. They sold so well over there that the factory couldn't keep up with the demand, so we shipped a batch of them. When I read about that I wondered if they had South African assembly ID tags from Elsies River plant in Cape Town or did they get an Australian ID tag. I wonder if it is possible to tell is it was one of ours. We got a wider range than you got including the Dodge lancer and the DeSoto. Same bodies but with different front and back ends. I can remember a super clean one years ago and a few others including the scrap ones. I have a bootlid hanging on my wall that came off a nice shell (could have put the black one together if you'd had that shell!).
A while ago I mucked around with these two variations that might interest you. You will probably recognise the roof shape of the green one, I'm sure.
Alastair

[ValleyMistEK]

That'd tbe the ultra rare R Series Monaro, yes?

[mr hydramatic]

yep , south africa has sum cool variations on our cars , you just got to look at sum of the hkt monaros and say hq statesmans, very subtle differences...yes i can understand about the different the chrysler stuff, i have a 66 dodge dart in those times if you bought a plymouth /dodge/valiant /say anythang chrysler is had small differences , be it the dash dard, interior fittings , chrome moulds lites etc...and if it was made in the USA to say canada even the say make it could be different ..crazy , must have cost chrlsyer a small furtune in tooling ...

here is my dodge

mr hm

[BAT 62]

GEEZ ADAM THERES A PROJECT FOR YA 2 DOOR THE BLACK ONE ----PERFECT