Let's see photos of right hand drive Mopar steering geometry

well chatted to a lot of old blokes when i lived there...
annoyed the manufacturers when i lived there, by phoning or emailing and asking awkward questions, MotoSpecs sydney had a bunch of old fellas that used to work at Borg warner/BTR so you could pump them for info. that's how i got to know of the the less well known applications, also how i managed to get one of the last sets of square Halogen headlights out of Hella Australia...lovely quality.... better then the sealed beam candles from lucas etc

Read a lot of books there are 3 or so Valiant story/valiant charger books and its been covered in Australian Muscle Car magazine and NZ classic Car both of which i used to get when you could buy magazines :)
frequented a lot of Aussie message boards for a very long time, now all gone which is why i landed here...
asked a lot of question and have been PUT RIGHT on a lot of occasions.... :)
kept an australian car on the road in Oz for 3 years and the UK for 20+ years :)


Yeah all of them suffered.
Leyland died due to industrial action and mismanagement at home in the UK
chrysler got killed off by US insisting they knew best, nobody down under really liked the post 71 body. driving a bulbous tank, sitting in a lazyboy during an OPEC Oil crisis, was not what the market needed. Hence the need for the charger... They managed a stay of execution due to the Valiant charger... It got them another 7 year before take over by Mitsubishi.

GM Holden
killed by US GMs cross charging model.

This is the most egregious one....its stinks, the others, mis management, this one deliberate.....
if what I have read in the press and seen reported is correct... you can't tell these days. everyone has an agenda ...

Small foreign based GM companies like holden, had to pay the US arm for the stuff they created or were forced to buy their own parts, as though they were imported from the US. Head office got a cut on every single transaction for every item used. GMs model/plan with both Holden and Vauxhall was that the governments in the UK and Australia would pile money into an ailing company to avoid unemployment, protect GDP and to keep some semblance of local car production going.
So GM US through its own convoluted charging model for parts and services kept these companies in the RED, barely afloat, and asked them to plead insolvency to the local government, even though they were selling great product at volume, and would have been showing a profit that made GM US look like the poor cousin.
GM US extracted those government subsidies from each foreign company to pay off the US debts and to make the US balance sheet look good.

GM basically extracted money from the UK and Australian Governments by making their smaller partners look like failing companies

they did it to SAAB and opel as well... so holden and vauxhall would have known what was coming....

When each government got wind of the situation they stopped the subsidies and GM jettisoned the company to the highest bidder or shut down the factory and in the case of Holden sold/moved the tooling, the rights to the technology and expertise to china.
Holden staff on the way to redundancy had to rebuild their production lines in china and train the staff... NICE!


Ford... who knows what they are up to? we build small diesel truck engines and that's about it now.

Everything is now stellantis
apart from ford, and apart from the fords that are actually Mazdas.... two door, small looks good and is not a mustang...probably a re badged mazda

Dave