Mopar Owners group South Africa.

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68cuda383 said:
Gday all, I am from Australia and own a south african barracuda. I am after some help decoding the vin. It reads:
Top line
DBVA 81

BOTTOM LINE
80170081
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Please post a pic if possible John? You may also mail it to me tbles@hotmail.co.za lets see if we can assist. South African VIN's were not as elaborately descriptive as US/Canadian/Australian ones were. Chrysler only had one assembly plant here.

If I can not assist, I'll pass it on to fellow Moparites in our group:D.

Ters.
 
68cuda383 said:
Ters,
Have sent you an email with a photo.

Cheers
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Sure, will have a look at it.

Couple of things - we never had a series II 67 RHD Barracuda - the US 66 was sold as our 67.
68 South African Barracudas could be had in any colour you could dream of as long as it was silver with a black interior. They only ever had 9 inch drums all round originally.
69 Barracuda's had discs upfront with boosting only for the discs - funny remote booster setup. Could be had in any colour

Series I Barracuda's 64 to 67 locally was as a rule white

Ters.
 
Hey Ters, looks like a good time.

Interesting info re the Barracudas, according to the PO of my 68 SA Barracuda the car was originally silver. But it has disks on front with a remote booster for the disks only just like you describe for the 1969. The brakes are identical to Australian Valiant solid disks with PBR callipers so possibly a changeover after the car landed here. The remote booster setup was the norm on slant powered cars in Australia. Not quite the same powerwise as an inline booster.
 
I have an old newspaper ad for a 1970 Dodge Dart station wagon. did they ever make this or just a wish item?

thanks
 
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