African Muscle Cars - Forum

My point about LHD and classic imports is: LHD a sore point with the government, and hasn't been helped by the actions and language of many so called enthusiasts. Last time there was a huge hoo ha and it went to parliament, it was all a lot unnecessary fuss and bother about a simple harmonisation of...

The problem is engineering any new rules very, very carefully so that they cannot be used for other purposes. Unless you make a very old age limit, you risk opening the doors to the world's scrap. There are plenty of very cheap (like scrap value), viable twenty year or even older cars that you could...

In the days of the Internet why are you limiting yourself to South Africa?

That vid: just waffle. But then they are marketeers who will never actually hype anything, in case others beat them to the money, and will never say anything against anything, in case it devalues what they already have in the pipeline. If you want to make money, the right eighties and nineties cars ...

Lots of thoughts on this, but one thing that springs to the front of my mind right from the start, is something not to do: Don't involve the no left hand drive rules in this. They have a very different origin, namely road safety, from the general importation rules based on economics. They are very, ...

Made in Brazil. A hybrid of T1 and T2. Some were imported into ZA way back.

There is no such thing as a V8 Mk3 Cortina Perana.

Tread carefully.

Patience my friend.

There are no paint codes for the Gunston colours.

You need paint samples to take to your paint maker. This will take a little time to organize. Everyone is on Christmas break.

FPT wrote:Electronics seem to be a bit of a hasle, seems be.

My friend has the previous model XJR. Electronics issues all came down to bad body earth points. Once those were properly cleaned, issues went away.

Merry Christmas all.