Just won this on eBay. Guess where it's from! (Not Australia)

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Sweeden?

Whoa, stock reverse valve body? Or is that just a linkage trick?

Not Sweden.

And no, the valve body is not reverse-pattern, and the linkage is ordinary. That's a clue!

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Found the ebay auciton.. South Africa.

Still don't get the reverse pattern... mirror trick?

Well if it's right hand drive I'll bet it has some funky linkage to get to the left side of the trans...

_________________
Rob

'62 Plymouth Savoy Wagon
'64 Chrysler 300
'47 Farmall H
Merlins are cool
Radials rule
Jets drool

Good catch, looked a little closer at the picture and theres a hint of the steering wheel at the right side.

I was going to say Holland, but S. Africa sounds even better.

Lou

_________________
Home of Slant6-powered fun machines since 1988

Heyyyy, that's cheating!
Nope, it's a right-hand-drive car. Steering wheels' on the right side of the car, gearstick is on the left side of the column.

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Different trans case and valve body; the shift controls are at the RH side of the trans.

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Pretty cool. Are there any sources of information on these cars?

i thought that was argentina's car. they have reverse seasons, reverse success with carburetor brands, their rivers flow the wrong way...

_________________
God took you away, then brought you back to me.

Well, there's this brochure...

The South African market had an interesting mix of North American-design and Australian-design Mopars. The Valiants were mostly North American-type until the mid '70s, when Australian designs came along, but still equipped with the slant-6 engine rather than the Australian Domestic Market Hemi-6 unit.

A friend of mine in Cambridge, England moved there from South Africa. He has a (deep breath here) 1973 Chrysler Valiant Charger 190 Sports Coupé. That is a rebadged 1971 Demon with the following factory specs (some mods have since been done):

-Right-hand drive
-Floor-shift automatic
-Bilingual controls and displays (English/Afrikaans)
-ECE 3-point seat belts
-Factory 2bbl 225 engine w/remote-mount oil filter on bracket welded to valve cover since clearance needed for steering box
-Amber sidemarker lights front and rear
-White front reflectors

He has a book buried somewhere in his office that describes the history of the South African Valiants, but he hasn't seen it since he showed it to me when I was there over a decade ago. I should pester him again...

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

What sort of 2bbl setup? Anything like the bbd supersix ?

Carter BBD with integral automatic choke. That is: black round bakelite housing on the outside of the air horn; steel heat tube passed through the exhaust manifold on an extra-tall #2 runner—same exhaust manifold and heat tube used in 1960-'69 Canadian-market 1bbl slant-6s with the optional carb anti-icing system, and all 1969 North American-market passenger car slant-6s got that same anti-ice system, see Here.

Intake manifold was a non-EGR item, but aside from that substantially identical to the intake used in the North American '76-'81 Super Six setup.

Air cleaner was plain flat/round kind (no snorkel).

Camshaft is same as US '71-'80 item (244°/244°/26°)

_________________
一期一会
Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.