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Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Apparently most of these are 2.8 dizzlers, again, in stark contrast to what you would get directly from .co.jp, so even better for the OMGMPG inclined.

This one thankfully comes with a postdeluvian gearbox and still more than enough pedals for two feet to operate:

 

http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/553896732.htm

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Also note that it is brown.

I expect a sea of golden velour inside.

It looks like I could make some room in my heart for a daft Japanese dizzlerbaderly waftbarge lately.

It's the kind of shite I never had before and I do want to have something less familiar for the second half of my life.

mouseflakes Rank: Renault 16

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The seller kindly pushed it onto a ferry for me, all I had to do was push it off at the other end.

 

I'm not a VW hater, so I'm a little shocked that my mind's eye sees it like this...

 

Guy kindly pushes the car on to the ship  - you then push it along the length of the deck -  and off the other end into the sea.

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Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Junkman

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JAPAN...hmmm.

 

My niece lives there & has achieved high fluency..... wonder if she has started dreaming in Japanese >> perish the thought!!  :o

 

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She could make some serious loot acting as my agent and relay station for plastic model kits listed on Yahoo.co.jp

Any chance she would?

skattrd Rank: Lancia Gamma

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The thing with importing chod from Japan is that they drive on the correct side of the road so the steering wheel is in the correct place, plus they have lots of motors that were not available over here.

There are several that I want to import ... one day I'll bring a container over, possibly even some interesting half-cuts :twisted:

Ratdat Rank: Renault 16

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I'm pretty sure that Y30 diesels have an LD28 non-turbo. If so I predict an utterly dismal driving experience and almost certainly no more economy that a V6 (which are surprisingly good). I had a C32 Laurel with an LD28 and it was comically slow. An LD28T would be a big improvement but in all honesty I think most Nissan diesel engines that were using in cars and vans were pretty shite.

 

It's amazing how many Y30s and 430s there are in France still.

Ratdat Rank: Renault 16

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The thing with importing chod from Japan is that they drive on the correct side of the road so the steering wheel is in the correct place, plus they have lots of motors that were not available over here.

There are several that I want to import ... one day I'll bring a container over, possibly even some interesting half-cuts :twisted:

Nail on head. Primary reasons for buying JDM are RHD, decent spec usually better than export models, oddball models and often condition is decent (although not always). It's only worth it for the right thing though... something you just cannot get elsewhere like Oz for example.

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Junkman

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The thing with importing chod from Japan is that they drive on the correct side of the road so the steering wheel is in the correct place.

For banger racers, yes.

Having the steering wheel on the French side has the advantage that you save a lot of money by not having to build a vault to store them.

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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I'm pretty sure that Y30 diesels have an LD28 non-turbo. If so I predict an utterly dismal driving experience and almost certainly no more economy that a V6 (which are surprisingly good). I had a C32 Laurel with an LD28 and it was comically slow. An LD28T would be a big improvement but in all honesty I think most Nissan diesel engines that were using in cars and vans were pretty shite.

 

I wonder what this all matters on an Island where the end of the world is 70 mph?

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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Cedric

 

Allmost the best name for a car EVER.

 

Absolutely. There is what I understand is a pov spec version of them called 'Gloria', which isn't bad either.

Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Junkman

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I had no idea that was the case. I wonder why.

 

They go around the track clockwise. Hence the weight distribution is better with RHD plus when they spin they end up with the passenger side towards oncoming traffic. Also, direct hits on the driver's door are forbidden, but a car being LHD could lead to error.

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Asimo Rank: Isuzu Florian

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I'm pretty sure that Y30 diesels have an LD28 non-turbo. If so I predict an utterly dismal driving experience and almost certainly no more economy that a V6 (which are surprisingly good). I had a C32 Laurel with an LD28 and it was comically slow. An LD28T would be a big improvement but in all honesty I think most Nissan diesel engines that were using in cars and vans were pretty shite.

 

It's amazing how many Y30s and 430s there are in France still.

I worked in Malaysia for a month, company policy dictated Taxis rather than hire cars but at £15 a day why diy anyway.. My Taxi was a Diesel Cedric, a bit shabby but 890,000 odd km on the clock. Fancied one ever since.

warren t claim Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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They go around the track clockwise. Hence the weight distribution is better with RHD plus when they spin they end up with the passenger side towards oncoming traffic. Also, direct hits on the driver's door are forbidden, but a car being LHD could lead to error.

Plenty of Yank tin has died on the oval especially in the limo races.

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They go around the track clockwise. Hence the weight distribution is better with RHD plus when they spin they end up with the passenger side towards oncoming traffic. Also, direct hits on the driver's door are forbidden, but a car being LHD could lead to error.

Thank you. Mo Stinteresting.
Junkman Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

Junkman

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Plenty of Yank tin has died on the oval especially in the limo races.

 

Yes yanks are inevitably LHD most of the time.

 

But if one of them mouthbreathers shows up with a LHD Cedric while I reported one stolen would be a bit of an eyebrow raiser now, would it not?

Phakt is they avoid left hookers unless it's a yank where they can't, but there will always be the odd exception that they use a LDH-non-yank as well as the odd exception of using a rare RHD yank. Heck, I was told a few of them even acquire cars legally, believe it, or not.

I sincerely hope that I now covered each and every possible nuance and eventuality, but the general rule of thumb was, is, and ever will be:

 

BNGR BOYZ AVOID LFT HOOKAZ

 

Oh, I forgot: there may have been extreme cases of banger racers using cars with central steering, although I've never seen a Panhard Dynamic being raced, but this doesn't mean it hasn't been done.

 

When I still had my LHD Granada brought over from Germany, they did ring my door bell on average trice a week and when I said 'LHD' they said 'no thanks' and buggered off.

 

Besides, I personally just can't be bothered where a bloody steering wheel is located, as long as it's inside the car.

Taff Rank: Renault 16

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Wow! A Manga PC Cresta

 

that ticks so many of my box's

 

JAPAN...hmmm.

 

My niece lives there & has achieved high fluency..... wonder if she has started dreaming in Japanese >> perish the thought!!  :o

 

TS

 

any, er, pics of this neice? Purely for import purposes, you understand

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