Valiant super bee from mexico

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Very nice. I like how the mexio and Australia cars were unique compared to the US versions.
 
That is pretty darn cool. I admit if I came across this, you would have to do some convincing to show me it's factory LOL
 
That is pretty darn cool. I admit if I came across this, you would have to do some convincing to show me it's factory LOL

I felt much the same when I saw it at World of Wheels last year, interesting car, really nice guy to chat with too!
 
I Like the wheels, but the tach mounted on the scoop just looks odd to me. Still way nicer car than my Dart
 
I've seen this car in person. It is very nice, and so is he. He let me crawl all over it! Ultra cool. I actually just sold a gauge cluster from one of these on the weekend. They go up to 240...........kmh! That will be surprising to those who peak in the car it's going to.......if they even notice.
 
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After seeing "gdrill" Super Bee it brought big memories, my father bought one just like yours in the seme color new back in 1970 and sold it in 1987 when I was 16 years old.
I'm going to post some scans from my family album that my father took, unfortunately most of these old early colour pictures have lost some of the brightness of the pictures so here he go:

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As you can see 1970 Suber Bee only used to have a very special exterior rear view mirror, it was an italian chrome Vitaloni Sebring I remember vey well the name angraved on it and it didn't had any decal or emblem on the front fenders.

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The gas tank used to be a flush chrome one like the one in the picture, I remebrer because my mom bought some of them during our ownership

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If Mr. "gdrill" have some questions I'll be glad to help him, I think I still can remember some thing about my father´s car. :)
 
It is not my car but one that I saw at a car show here. The owner is listed in the first post link with the story of the car. It is a great car and very unique for our part of the world! Thank you for sharing your history as well. You guys had some pretty cool cars built down there!
 
It is not my car but one that I saw at a car show here. The owner is listed in the first post link with the story of the car. It is a great car and very unique for our part of the world! Thank you for sharing your history as well. You guys had some pretty cool cars built down there!
Thank you for letting me know hope the owner of that Super Bee see tha post meanwhile hear are more scans
It is not my car but one that I saw at a car show here. The owner is listed in the first post link with the story of the car. It is a great car and very unique for our part of the world! Thank you for sharing your history as well. You guys had some pretty cool cars built down there!


Thanks for letting me know hope the Mexican Super Bee owner see the post, meanwhile there are more scans
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A close up of the Dixco tachymeter with the Chrysler pentastar logo painted on the dial frame

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The metal frame insert on the fender lip (I love the design of those hubecaps)

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After 3 years of ownership the front stripes began to come off I can also notice someone had stolen the original hubcap and my dad got one but with the incorrect logo, the letters on the tire wall began to rub off also.
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My one year old brother

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Me and my brother at the wheel :)

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Not an A body but me and my mother's Coronet 440

Thanks for watching.
 
@Arquimedes Thanks for the great pictures. I sure don't see many vintage Mexico car pictures very often.

Anyone have any fender tag pictures or import tag pictures of these cars? How about vin tag pictures. I know every country did different things with the tags. Very curious to see any difference's in the tags from American tags.
 
@Arquimedes Thanks for the great pictures. I sure don't see many vintage Mexico car pictures very often.
Anyone have any fender tag pictures or import tag pictures of these cars? How about vin tag pictures. I know every country did different things with the tags. Very curious to see any difference's in the tags from American tags.

I'm glad you liked them.
I think it's going to be very difficult to decode de VIN number of Mexican Crysler of those days, because at that time Chrysler of Mexico was just a subsidiary of Chrysler Corporation and was named Automex and the codes the used on their cars didn't match those on the USA (not even the name of the car colours).
I think the only person that could once decode the VIN were the personal at the factories and in the dealers parts department.
 
@Arquimedes Thanks for the great pictures. I sure don't see many vintage Mexico car pictures very often.

Anyone have any fender tag pictures or import tag pictures of these cars? How about vin tag pictures. I know every country did different things with the tags. Very curious to see any difference's in the tags from American tags.
A friend of mine bought one about 10 years ago to restore with his son.
As it turns out, it was a '71 ''Valiant Duster'' originally built in Mexico.
How it ended up in Canada is anyone's guess.
The car was originally yellow with a black interior and had a 318, column auto, and an 8 3/4'' rear end.
Compared to Canadian and American built cars, the V.I.N. and locations were much different.
The Mexican built car had 3 different body V.I.N. locations plus a fender tag all on the driver's side.
The main one was on the inside of the door pillar by the hinges and interior light switch, on the driver's side inner front frame rail on the inside under the battery tray there was a welded plate with the number on it, and on the rear frame rail just as it starts to go up over the rear end was a stamped V.I.N. for the car.
Curiously enough, the dash frame had the holes punched out in the same location that we are used to for the V.I.N. that the North American cars came with and looked unused.
Here's some pics, not the best quality, but enough to get the idea..........

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Super cool and very interesting thanks everyone for sharing. I've learned something new today. . .going back to bed
 

Amazing it's the first time I see Valiant with the V8 engine I always thought that the V8's where only used on the Bee's because Automex sold the slant six like crazy.
Another interesting image it's seeing the original inside door panel almost intact that would be a good one to get an original pattern.
 
A frew moths ago my cousin send me a link to a youtube video taken in Mexico City Downtown in 1971, there in minute 12:40 a Valiant Super Bee in motion

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Some of the specs according to the brochure

Weight:2985 Lb
Power to weight ratio: 4.87Kg/HP
Turning ratio: 12.34 mts
Tank capacity: 18 gal (68.13 lts)
Desplacment: 318 cubic inch
Number of cylinder: 8
Cylinder diameter: 3.91"
Piston travel: 3.31"
HP: 270@4900
Torque: 320@3600
Compression: 9.5:1
Diferential: 3.54:1

Lubrication

Front suspension: Every 50,000Km
Oil Change: Every 2 months or 5,000 km (3,106.8 miles)
Oil capacity: 3.785 lt

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Amazing it's the first time I see Valiant with the V8 engine I always thought that the V8's where only used on the Bee's because Automex sold the slant six like crazy.
Another interesting image it's seeing the original inside door panel almost intact that would be a good one to get an original pattern.
I almost bought this car.
Shortly after these pictures were taken in 2011, the car was sold to someone here in Alberta, and haven't seen it since.
It was a 318 4 barrel, and the right exhaust manifold didn't have the heat riser in it.
It had the bulges cast into the bottom where it would have had one, but the holes were never drilled out.
Yeah, the door panels would have been nice to make a pattern from.
Oh well.........
 
Man, chrysler did some cool stuff with foreign markets. I really want a mexican or an Australian plymouth just because they are so different and just cooler in most cases. like that hood tach, damn cool and Sad that we didn't get it.
 
Brazil got some cool ones as well.
 
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