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I heard the Marina ended up as a display piece in a pub, but have no idea where or if it's still there.

It's conceivable they may have been bought for spares/panel cuts as where they haven't been cut through they are usually like new, but that would be a shame if so.

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On 08/01/2022 at 05:28, Bfg said:

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The Chevrolet Opala seems like an incredibly long car.  Looks to be an under-slung live axle at the rear, but with 4-link pressed-steel trailing arms (..for anti-squat), coil springs, Panhard Rod and telescopic dampers, rather than leaf springs.

It is, because it follows the outward styling being pushed by GM (and a lot of other manufacturers) at the time, which involved a massive overhang past the rear axle. 

Brazil, however has always been the place where the designers get to try something different- partly because at the time people in Brazil would buy anything with wheels, partly because they'd been pushed heavily with Spanish vehicles and their rather less dowdy engineering. 

Therefore you find some real oddities in Brazil - stock looking, bland Americana with intriguing underpinnings, far advanced from anything sold in the States; VW continued this trend well into the late 80's.

 

Phil

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