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Old 04-12-2007, 12:56 PM   #1
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Default Can anyone identify this car? (300kb pic)

I need help knowing what this car is, and what country it is from. If anyone can have a look and tell me it would help immensely.



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Old 04-12-2007, 01:08 PM   #2
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Looks a bit like a Dodge Phoneix - definately a Yank tank
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:10 PM   #3
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I can't quite read the badge on the guard, but it looks like a Dodge Coronet......probably around 1966 to 1968 model.
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:16 PM   #4
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I thought it might be a Valiant or something, it definitely has the shape but I cant make out what it says on the side there.
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:21 PM   #5
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it says sport on the side i think
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:21 PM   #6
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Looks like "Signet"?

http://www.fnc.ch/Club-Fahrzeuge/Fot...20Signet69.jpg
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Yeah they were along the lines of the Coronet, which were the little brother to the Dodge Pheonix. You can see the close styling to the Valiant VE/VF/VG that came out in Australia at the same time.
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:36 PM   #8
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That seems to be the one. Thank you very much.
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Yep, defintely the Signet, it has the same line contours down the side in both pics.
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Old 04-12-2007, 01:58 PM   #10
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Upon searching for some more pics I came across this:

http://hillman.talstar.com/photos/19...Summer1989.jpg
http://www.chooseyouritem.com/classi...00/106001.html

1968 Plymouth Valiant, it seems to be very similar to the signet..
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Old 04-12-2007, 04:18 PM   #11
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I asked a friend (also a mechanic) on another car forum in Seppoland.

His reply.............


They were sold as the Plymouth "Scamp (one of which I owned)" and the Dodge "Swinger." All basically the same car. Mine had a 360 in it I believe. Fast.

There was an inline 6 available that was not very quick but as solid as most straight sixes of the day.

Was no Chrysler Valiant, the Valiant ran under the Plymouth nameplate.....it
ws the basic cheapie, and Chrysler, with their New Yorkers et al, didn't go
there at the time.

The Dodge variant was called the Dart. The 360 wasn't really available in
that chassis, it was in the warmed over versions of the later cars, i.e. the
Demon.....the 340 was the engine of performance 'til 73 or 74......the 360
was an attempt to goose a little powewr into the emissions emasculated
mid-70s engines......unsuccessfully.

Most of the V-8 cars of that era/model line had the venerable 318, which was
only exceeded in sheer bulletproof capability by the SLANT
six........Chrysler's arguably best engine for durability EVER.

That engine was used from the very early 60s all the way up into the 90s.

The suckers would NOT die!


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Old 04-12-2007, 10:57 PM   #12
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Sorry this is an Australian forum and Chrysler Australia made many millions of Chryler Valiants here. It was the main model name so we hand Valiant Regals, Valiant Chargers, Valiant Safari etc
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Sorry this is an Australian forum and Chrysler Australia made many millions of Chryler Valiants here. It was the main model name so we hand Valiant Regals, Valiant Chargers, Valiant Safari etc
hear hear!
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Sorry this is an Australian forum and Chrysler Australia made many millions of Chryler Valiants here. It was the main model name so we hand Valiant Regals, Valiant Chargers, Valiant Safari etc
you'll find that the guy asked his mate in the states about them, and that guy was saying there were no chrysler valiants IN THE STATES..


we all know there were heaps here......

i actually found the info great to read, thank you GasOLane
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you'll find that the guy asked his mate in the states about them, and that guy was saying there were no chrysler valiants IN THE STATES..
we all know there were heaps here......
i actually found the info great to read, thank you GasOLane
Thanks, and you're right, my friend was telling me that in the States they were known as 'Plymouth Valiants'
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Sorry this is an Australian forum and Chrysler Australia made many millions of Chryler Valiants here. It was the main model name so we hand Valiant Regals, Valiant Chargers, Valiant Safari etc
I love the Valiants. Had a VK Ranger myself. But I don't think Chrysler Australia made "millions" of them.

AFAIK less than 600,000 were sold in Australia. That's all series from Series R to the CM.
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Old 23-07-2008, 04:48 PM   #17
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Looks like an XY to me......



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Looks like an XY to me......
thats the first thing i thought.
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ROFL....looks like someone's changed the pic from the original (Dec '07) thread
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ROFL....looks like someone's changed the pic from the original (Dec '07) thread

i thought my eyes were going on me : : : :
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Old 23-07-2008, 05:25 PM   #21
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thats the first thing i thought.
Agree with the XY call....
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I looked at the pic and scrolled down and thought WTF are these guys on!
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Old 23-07-2008, 05:49 PM   #23
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Yeah I got sucked in too, Im thinking valiant??? no way !!! gotta be an xy, what drugs are these guys on?
Good for a laugh anyhow
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Old 23-07-2008, 06:30 PM   #24
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Um what happened to my thread?

Edit: Ah I see. Why the hell did this get dragged up? :

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That's a relief, I was reading the first part of this thread and could swear it was an XY and it was driving me nuts thinking others thought it was a MOPAR :



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it's a bloody XY, if any of you guy's think that aint a falcon maybe you should change sides. It's all there plain as day, shape, features, lights, bumper, rear boot garnish, the line along the body, ect ect. geeezes. :
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Yeah this thread was confusing me too.

Looks like it's VC - VE Valiant
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it's a bloody XY, if any of you guy's think that aint a falcon maybe you should change sides. It's all there plain as day, shape, features, lights, bumper, rear boot garnish, the line along the body, ect ect. geeezes. :
maybe you should re read the thread and view the DATES the original posts were made - its all there, plain as day.
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ah well, ya get that. you must sit at your PC alot. your EVERYWHERE.
do you eat? yes i know, your an administrator. or moderator, im a capatular myself. god im an aint i. just joining in with the rest of the human race.
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I was staring at the first pic and for the life of me could not figure out why i couldn't read a badge whilst everyone else could! What a relief.
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