Mopar Muscle Association UK

I think some of the aussie cars look better than some of the yanks.

Sandys XA, for example looks very cool

Sandy wrote:

Clivey wrote:I don't know who it is who is responsible for designing those Aussie cars, but whoever it is he needs to sack the guide dog and get a better one, its eye sight is crap.

Steady....

I have to say mate, in all honesty, your car is a massive exception and the others of that style too. Yours just does'nt look, well, Australian.

CRAIG wrote:I think some of the aussie cars look better than some of the yanks.

Sandys XA, for example looks very cool

I agree totally. America has done tome real poo. That Tourana or whatever it is called is just ugly. The only thing it has going for it is whats under the hood I reckon. It redeems itself in the power department (well, the 400bhp one anyway).

The Torana, looks very much like a HB Viva to me. The windscreen and doors are exactly the same!

Someone Bananarama! the jackpot.

"Aussie cars are ugly!"

The Torana was a Viva.... but unlike the British Viva it didn't have a weak engine in it.

And somewhear on here! http://www.uglycars.co.uk/index.html

aussie cars in theory should appeal more to the UK than the yanks do

they used the same restrained styling cues in the 70s that made most of ours reasonably nondescript but we still love em

they didn't go in for landau or carson topped make it look like a softop when its not Bananarama!

few of them ever looked like the family truckster that Clarke Griswald took the familiy to wallyworld in.

allthough the preoccupation with panel vans in the late 70s is a tad odd

they never had pretend bolt on plastic wooden side trim.

the only real odd stuff is the propensity to put automatic gearboxes in evrything including the corsa

and the need for all passenger cars to be able to tow a plough across 25 miles square of red dirt at 60 mph

they built cars that could be dismantled down to the last nut bolt and spring by a man in a vest behind a pub and put back togheter agin working.

and obviously didn't have the same over heating issues that most british post war production had if you went faster than 60.

as with many things in Oz
function comes before form

some automtive output from the land down under is a tad odd looking and its contribution to world of automtive asthetics could be similar to the contrbution the Arndale Centre made to the world of architecture.

it worked but it smelled a bit funny and you might get mugged

i mean a 3.3 or 4 litre littre engine in a viva

thats just bonkers nutcase madness.

the second and 3rd gen chavalier copy that holden did was the same as ours apart from they had to cut off the whole front end and rebuild it stronger to handle the 5 litre motor. thats 3 liters more than we got unless you spent out on an opel or or an engine from lotus

reliant scimitar not exactly lovely
our beloved triumphs erm stag ok dolomite erm them littl ones with the flip front no! does nout for me
hunter no
marina no no
viva no
ital what? no! you must be joking? would you belive it!
avenger mmm ok
princess no no
ambassador cigar
maxi pad
austin 1100 granny
wolsey 6 what the
cortina mk 1 ok mk2 shoe box mk 3 yes i'd have mk 3
talbot sunbeam with lotus engine erm psychotic invalid carriadge
them allegros with the big rolls royce like grill and 5 speed gearbox nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno


Dave

Dave,you've just (rightly) written off 99.9% of UK postwar cars as junk.

Blimey Sandy, it's a two door...

Interesting how the centre section is pure Viva shape and the boot leans towards Avenger...with that six banger in it, I would think that's quite entertaining to drive!

At £45,000, plus shipping, plus tax, we will never find out

What the hell makes a rust before your eyes,boring 60's designed cheap family car fitted with the wrong engine worth £45K?You could build something very similar using an Viva with Ventora running gear for a lot less.

It is a race homologation car, built in limited numbers, which was hugely successful on the racetrack racing in almost exactly the same state as you bought it off the showroom floor.

It has as much mythical status in Australia as an AAR Cuda or a T/A Challenger has in the U.S..... except it actually won races.

It is also the car that gave Peter Brock his first Bathurst win, so it has that mystical 'pull' about it too.

Personally, I think it is a good looking little car.

Just trying to provoke a reaction.

Tsk. A fellow C-body owner too.