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Engine offset?

Hmmm, I suspect that the Aussie cars were a completely different design. How many big (or smallblock) Aussie Mopars have you seen ??? Ever seen an Aussie Road Runner ?!?! I think most of the cars would have been built using the Aussie inline six (hemi ??) and would have had a different steering box, etc.. There should be a bunch from that era still running around - it ain't like they rusted from snow and salt on the roads !!
 
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As far as I know, left hand drive vehicles are ILLEGAL in Australia. If you import a classic left hand drive vehicle and want to license and drive it, it MUST be converted. Maybe an Aussie can chime in on this.
 
Stanton said:
Hmmm, I suspect that the Aussie cars were a completely different design. How many big (or smallblock) Aussie Mopars have you seen ??? Ever seen an Aussie Road Runner ?!?! I think most of the cars would have been built using the Aussie inline six (hemi ??) and would have had a different steering box, etc.. There should be a bunch from that era still running around - it ain't like they rusted from snow and salt on the roads !!
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The Chrysler Valiant and Charger models came out with only small block V8 engines - plus the slant 6. ...225 & 265 /6, plus the 318, 340 & 360 engines later on. Challenges were plenty to cram all the parts inside, as the body and engine bay was smaller.

Australian cars were tooled fresh for the local market, except the rear of the Valiants were copied from the Dart. Front clip was altered to make the car different here.

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Australia did not produce any Road Runner or Charger vehicles that were tooled the same as the American versions.

Not only that, Chrysler USA did not make many RHD cars at all. I did find many years ago a '1 of 6' RHD factory variant of a '71 Dodge Charger out of the LA Plant....440 6-pack 4 speed car....all the fruit. It was totalled in a high-speed moment of idiocy here ....now it's gone to the weeds.
The story I heard was that the plant suffered an earthquake while producing that RHD run of cars, and it was taken as a bad omen....so no more were produced. Anyone care to verify or deny that story. It was one of only six made RHD. I know a guy who owned that car a few years before it was wrecked here.

BTW ...we don't salt our roads....we only salt our food.

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Built on April 27, 1969 and sold new at Independence Dodge in Independence, Missouri, it was shipped to Australia in 1973. There it was converted to Australian specifications, which in addition to right-hand drive, included adding front turn signals to the underside of the nose cone and integrating amber turn signal lenses into the taillights.
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NOT a factory built RHD car....and no mention of the headlights being changed...which is the more important detail that our local nazis Inspectors look for upon importation. :)
 
Randy Marsh said:
I know the offset is certainly for steering clearance, and that offset is carried right down the car. The trans tunnel is even offset approximately 1 1/2". I was just wondering how the engine position was obtained. It's difficult to tell with the engine still in the car. I wasn't sure if that 1 1/2" was in the mounts themselves, or where they attach. Thanks
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It's done with the location of the mount 'stands' that are welded to the K frame.....
 
Stanton said:
s far as I know, left hand drive vehicles are ILLEGAL in Australia.
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NO, they are not illegal....yet.

The cars do however require a permit and special licencing to be driven on public roads.

Same here in New Zealand - although I don't recall ever being asked by a Cop to produce my "Permit to operate a vehicle with the steering column to the left of centre" since about six months before the law was passed in 1990.

He was an arrogant SOB excuse for a Cop. Tried to pull me over on the on-ramp to the motorway...then asked why I didn't stop when he flashed at me. I told him it was a dangerous place to pull over. Then he asked for my permit....of which I didn't have...because it wasn't law yet. When I told him I didn't need one, he pulls out his "How to be a Police Officer training manual" and tries to show me about the permit and the law. So he issues me a ticket for $150 for lack of a permit.

I contacted my then gf's Aunt who worked in that Cop's head Office, and was the top Civilian working under the Chief at that time. Cop was subsequently called in for a lecture, and the ticket was torn up. :D

Funny thing....my ex-colleague Terry, who has just retired, was a Cop, and so was his wife....and they were good friends of that Cop who pulled me over. When I told them the story they both laughed...and said..."Yep that's him alright."
 
In Texas, if you have a gun permit, the cops here like to see it too when one pulls you over. Several years ago mine had just expired but I gave it to him anyways. My hog leg wasn't on my side but was under the seat....which is legal even without a license. When he asked me if I had it on me for some reason I said "not on me but not sure if there was one in the truck or not" and he just started laughing and said he's done that before and that got me to laughing and saying "I'm glad I'm not the only one that does stuff like that." He gave me a ticket for speeding but wrote in the wrong speed limit for the road I was on and the judge threw it out. I've seen this one cop before (probably been to my house a few times, don't ask) and have talked to him before so I think he wrote in the wrong limit intentionally.
 
Stanton said:
As far as I know, left hand drive vehicles are ILLEGAL in Australia. If you import a classic left hand drive vehicle and want to license and drive it, it MUST be converted. Maybe an Aussie can chime in on this.
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Not illegal and no special permits to drive them either (at least in Queensland anyway). I had mine on full rego for the first year, could drive it anytime, anywhere, just like a regular car. They've actually relaxed the rules - 20 years ago you could only drive a left-hand drive vehicle on club runs, and you had to have a big sticker across your back window "CAUTION: LEFT HAND DRIVE VEHICLE". That's all gone now thankfully. There's a lot of US cars just in my area - there's 3 68-70 Chargers I know of, a '71 Hemi Cuda, a convertible late sixties Firebird, a Roadrunner, heaps of Mustangs, Corvettes etc. The market is actually thriving, with prices to suit.
 
Randy Marsh said:
Then modern US cars should mount the engine on a cantilever. I remember growing up a fat girl was an oddity (even older women). Now anything under 150lb is extremely rare. Even young girls are huge. Every time I leave the US I'm amazed at the difference.
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With the first wife, when we went to a restaurant, she'd look at the menu and say YES.
Fat scallywag...
 
From engine offset to fat broads.Now that's entertainment !:popcorn:
 
I got a dumb question. hat if I pull the slant 6 and weld the v-8 mnts such that the v-8 is centered now.... big trouble or will it work ok?
 
Don't see why it wouldn't work....
 
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