Valiant's / Chrysler's wanted

[Alan]

Hi if your disposing of your Valiant to the wreckers please consider calling
me iam looking for some as spare parts and to restore some of the classic's,
they dont have to be in running order dead's ok thanks Alan

[Tony Cardone]

Don't call me a dickhead !

"Fraser Johnston" <fraser@jcis.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "maxfli**" <me@yourplace.com> wrote in message
> news:MvVYd.195587$K7.101887@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> Didnt you ask this a week ago?
>> Alot of people know even as a "wreck" Valiants are worth a bit of money
>> these days , why would someone give it to you ?
>>
>> Even the newest Val on the road would be 25 years old.......and given
>> many were crushed years back - stuff like good trim and bagdes are all
>> valuable .
>
> No shit. I went and looked at a 74 Charger today and the thing was full
> of rust and looked like the guy had painted the whole thing with pressure
> pack cans of paint from Bunnings. It had a tennis ball sized oil leak
> under it and was continually dripping and overspray everywhere. The
> price. $6200. Firm. The scary thing is that Chargers are becoming so
> rare some dickhead will pay it.
>
> Fraser
>

[Fraser Johnston]

"Tony Cardone" <tcard@bigblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Don't call me a dickhead !

Don't tell me you bought it?

Fraser

[Toby Ponsenby]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:41:16 +0800, Fraser Johnston wrote:

> "Tony Cardone" <tcard@bigblue.net.au> wrote in message
> news:423431a1$0$30067$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> Don't call me a dickhead !
>
> Don't tell me you bought it?
>
> Fraser

I recall Hertz had a *shitload* of Chargers back then.
I always wondered how many had been turned into something entirely
different to the product they took delivery of.

--
Toby
quidquid latine dictum
sit, altum viditur

[Jason James]

"Fraser Johnston" <fraser@jcis.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> "maxfli**" <me@yourplace.com> wrote in message
> news:MvVYd.195587$K7.101887@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Didnt you ask this a week ago?
> > Alot of people know even as a "wreck" Valiants are worth a bit of money
> > these days , why would someone give it to you ?
> >
> > Even the newest Val on the road would be 25 years old.......and given
many
> > were crushed years back - stuff like good trim and bagdes are all
valuable
> > .
>
> No shit. I went and looked at a 74 Charger today and the thing was full
of
> rust and looked like the guy had painted the whole thing with pressure
pack
> cans of paint from Bunnings. It had a tennis ball sized oil leak under it
> and was continually dripping and overspray everywhere. The price. $6200.
> Firm. The scary thing is that Chargers are becoming so rare some
dickhead
> will pay it.
>
> Fraser

The only people who would buy an old Val are those who never actually did
any real driving in one, or are under 30 yo.

Great motors,...but that's where it ends.

Jason

[Toby Ponsenby]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:28:28 GMT, Jason James wrote:

> The only people who would buy an old Val are those who never actually did
> any real driving in one, or are under 30 yo.
>
> Great motors,...but that's where it ends.
>
> Jason

I found the very best way to cope with them was to get mildly blotto.
I recall struggling to keep one respectably on the bitumen for hours
out west - thought I'd visit a country pub to relax a tad.
Threw some dollars on the bar, asked the Tavern Wench to let me know
when I appeared to be 'relaxed'.
That she did, after about ?? beers.

Went out, got in and fired up the Valiant and wouldn't you know it
went straight as a die for the rest of the (long) trip.

That being said, some of those machines were undoubtedly very good
indeed - like a friends AP 5 Regal V8 which was one of the very best
cars I've driven until comparatively recently.
He let a tandem trailer get the better of it one rainy night and left
the lovely car in the ditch it landed in. Bloody shame.
Don't blame him though:-)

--
Toby
quidquid latine dictum
sit, altum viditur

[maxfli**]

"Jason James" <associate@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Fraser Johnston" <fraser@jcis.com.au> wrote in message
> news:39inovF5vo5q5U1@individual.net...
>>
>> "maxfli**" <me@yourplace.com> wrote in message
>> news:MvVYd.195587$K7.101887@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> > Didnt you ask this a week ago?
>> > Alot of people know even as a "wreck" Valiants are worth a bit of
>> > money
>> > these days , why would someone give it to you ?
>> >
>> > Even the newest Val on the road would be 25 years old.......and given
> many
>> > were crushed years back - stuff like good trim and bagdes are all
> valuable
>> > .
>>
>> No shit. I went and looked at a 74 Charger today and the thing was full
> of
>> rust and looked like the guy had painted the whole thing with pressure
> pack
>> cans of paint from Bunnings. It had a tennis ball sized oil leak under
>> it
>> and was continually dripping and overspray everywhere. The price. $6200.
>> Firm. The scary thing is that Chargers are becoming so rare some
> dickhead
>> will pay it.
>>
>> Fraser
>
> The only people who would buy an old Val are those who never actually did
> any real driving in one, or are under 30 yo.
>
> Great motors,...but that's where it ends.
>
> Jason


Similar sentiments can be applied to all the Fords and Holden too , of that
era.

[Jason James]

"Toby Ponsenby" <toby@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:22:32 +1100, Jason James wrote:
>
> > BTW the AP6 was the first V8 273 cu.
>
> I thought that...
> This one was an AP5 Grille-wise, and rest assured it wasn't a 273.
> Much quicker you'd expect from that engine.
> And no, I don't know whether it was a stocker, converted import or
> simply put together later. Looked and sounded as if it was a factory
> machine, though. Very quiet and very fast.

Very light too... Popularity-wise, in the '70s, the VC used to be the EH of
Vals.


> The black and white steering wheel was, errr tasteful and probably
> required to know which was the tiller dead ahead position.

The early ones suffered from 'steering gear designed for US roads only'.
Only much later, CL onwards I think, did they beef up the lower-control arms
and bush. On the VH Ranger (range here, range there) they didnt even have
eyelets on the lower arms for a front rolll bar!

The other great faux pa was, Chrysler lubricated the steering boxes with a
great dollop of some sort of grease. This then dried out and caused ever
increasing play in the box. The standard thing after buying an ol' Val, was,
to find a wreck which had a box which had been maintained properly with diff
oil, .
The diff oil would slowly leech its way out of the pitman bush,....not a big
problem.



Jason