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Youse volks missed a good day amongst the fins with the Valiants

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lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#232332
Spot the rose amonst the fins

[Edited on 13-9-2004 by Dubnut]

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lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#232334
This one is Dodge. It is a 2 door a swell as a left hooker. You can just see the steering wheel. I will have to have a go at the photographer fo lack of detail...

[Edited on 13-9-2004 by Dubnut]

[Edited on 16-9-2004 by Dubnut]

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lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#232337
There were about 10 Valiants on the cruise. The one with the cat's eye tail lights is an "R" type. Only about 1100 sold in Australia. I checked and it definitely wasn't welded in tail lights.. The ppl who owned them were all great to chat with and have a barbie with as well. They are more into restoring their cars back to as near as original as possible. When I said we have days where we get a coupla hundred cars of all types of VW they were astounded. I told em about Valla and they had to sit down for a moment...I think a couple of them a coming to the DOVW. I don't expect any converts but they will have a good time I reckon.

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bocka64 Officially Full-On Dubber

392 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·

#232341
did anyone turn up with you?

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~air fooled~ two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

1,429 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·

#232698
scccchhhmiiiiccck lookin r series!!! and a great bunch of s series too!! i nearly bought an s series for $6k about half a year ago, regret that i didnt now.....it was a machine!!! still aspirations of owning another val apart from my rusted out VG wagon...hopefully a VH charger and CH chrysler by chrysler.....
everything dies baby, thats a fact..
maybe everything that dies one day comes back..
put your make up on and your hair up pretty..
and meet me tonight in Atlantic city..

mscabrio Cabriolet Queen

2,308 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#232754
Oh crap, I forgot !!!!!!!! Dubnut why didn't you remind me ?
you know me and my mind full of holes ......

I could have introduced you to the new man in my life ...... But then again it may be too early in the relationship for introductions, he is not house broken yet and would probably pee on the leather seats !

lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#233429
mscabrio wrote:he is not house broken yet and would probably pee on the leather seats !
I hope the heater in theseats isn't switched on!!!!!
he might get a 12 volt surprise...
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lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#233430
~air fooled~ wrote:scccchhhmiiiiccck lookin r series!!! and a great bunch of s series too!! i nearly bought an s series for $6k about half a year ago, regret that i didnt now.....it was a machine!!! still aspirations of owning another val apart from my rusted out VG wagon...hopefully a VH charger and CH chrysler by chrysler.....

yep they have every reason to be proud of their cars...
the burgundy one was sweet and the lemon yellow one was a bit sweeter.
a couple of them had even been LOWERED...only about 2 inches though.
The "R" was a manual. It had the strangest lookin floorshift I have seen in a while. I will try my brother and see if he has got a pic of it somewhere.
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nbturbo Veteran Volks Folk

2,171 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#233571
Some classic metal in those shots.I started my working life on Valiants and still have a VF 6 cyl.Regal thats only done 60,000 miles from new. Did the R series have the gear shift on the floor? I seem to remember looking at one years ago and they had to do some weird alterations to get the gear lever closer to the driver for R.H.drive. I think the gear change arms were on the LH side of the gear box and I reckon there was something different about the clutch set up as well.They were probably available in the States with a column gear change,with the lever on the right for right hand operation,but for us there would not be enough room for lever between the column and the drivers door.With the frantic release of them here,it was easier to fab up a floor gear shift rather than designing and building a new steering column for RH drive.I can't remember what they did with the S series for manual gear shift and the auto would have outsold them anyhow with the unique push button dash auto.Very nice motor cars.

lobus Wolfsburg Wizard

618 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·

#233601
that would explain the custom floorshift on the R. There was no room on the column as the steering wheel had the big and I mean BIG dish...typical Americana and cool I reckon. The S had a less "dishier" wheel...
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pod i`ve got to finish this thing one day

4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·

#233871
had an AP5 regal myself as well as a VE,VJ, VG and a VJ ute great cars the old Vals but the old nemesis of rust slowly is killing them all, funniest thing the AP5 was the one with the least rust only had to replace the bottom of one rear quarter, try going to there show in sydney ,same place as the nats at easter ,its full of Chryslers and its on soon.
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