slant to 265 hemi

Hi Guy's

Just thought I would give you a little history info....The Utillity (ute) was first designed here in Australia by Ford in 1932 or 34 a farmers wife said to somebody at Ford that they needed a vehicle that could be used around the farm for work but then could take them to church on Sunday's & the ute is what Ford came up with.

Now Chrysler Australia ltd didn't build there first ute it the early 50's in the form of a Dodge Wayfairer basially looked like a cut down suburban wagon. The first Valiant ute was built in 1965 with the AP-6 model. Chrysler Aust ltd also built cars for export believe it or not but Chrysler Aust exported cars to 27 countries around the world including RSA, UK, FiJi, NZ just to name a few. Most cars exported were powered by the slant 6 most also had cosmetic differences to the vehicles sold here in Aust.

Chrysler Aust was est in 1951 was sold by Chrysler corp as times were tuff in 1981 to Mitsubishi who built cars in that plant till only a year or 2 ago Chrysler Aust built over 500,000 Valiants from 1961 to 1981. The Chrysler club I am in holds a annual show called the Chrysler Wake Run which celibrates Chrysler Aust this year it will be 60 years old if it was still here. It gose to show that a quality produce can last the test of time as there are a lot of young guys getting into Chrysler which were built before they were born as we haven't had a new 1 since 1981 we are a loyal bunch us MoPar nuts.