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Here's the mad fella who paid to have his perfectly good CX Safari turned into the only RHD Loadrunner replica

 

You have to wonder sometimes why people make irreversible changes like this to an already rare car, but I suppose if they're happy with it, that's all that matters. I wish him luck if he ever ends up trying to sell it, because the only person who would want one badly would have to be a Loadrunner enthusiast.

Or someone with an exhibition layout with long baseboards! Not me though, as I can get about 13ft lengths in my van!

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Erm, anorak-head on..there has never been a Mustang Saloon.....always either a fastback, coupe [as in the photo] or convertible....sorry, but I have a coupe....which gets out as much as I dare... :)

You can blame AutoCar reg check for that. Not being a petrol-head, I identify cars I don't instantly recognize from that site. At least the 'saloon' doesn't appear on the image.

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Lovely stuff Phil - is there anyway of telling externally whether the Notchback Mustangs are straight sixes or V8s...?

 

In the '70s and '80s there used to be quite a lot of American cars round here but they all seem to have disappeared. Someone I used to work with had a yellow Boss Mustang for several years and one of the regulars at our local Sainsburys had a massive white Cadillac convertable as his daily transport, he used to park it sideways taking up four 'normal' parking spaces. One of the lads at work currently has a '71 Camaro in bright yellow with Wolfrace wheels. I've always a bit of a thing for late '60s / early '70s muscle cars but never taken the plunge, maybe one day... very partial to the old Dodge Challenger shape (as in 'Vanishing Point').

I just take pictures - I don't even drive - so I can't answer technical stuff! They are presented as they are as I make prints up into greetings cards for fund-raising. It's good to have some that appeal to blokes.

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Speaking of old American cars, when we were in Canberra in 2012, we visited the Museum of Democracy (Old Parliament House) and, while we were in one of the upstairs rooms, I noticed, through the window, that a group of old American cars had arrived in the car park.  On our way out, as the cars were still there, I took a few photos:

 

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Here's the mad fella who paid to have his perfectly good CX Safari turned into the only RHD Loadrunner replica

 

You have to wonder sometimes why people make irreversible changes like this to an already rare car, but I suppose if they're happy with it, that's all that matters. I wish him luck if he ever ends up trying to sell it, because the only person who would want one badly would have to be a Loadrunner enthusiast.

 

I think that is really cool! I wouldn't even think of buying a standard one,but if that one was for sale, & I had the cash, I'd buy it in a heartbeat! And until this thread I'd have thought a Loadrunner was a Chinese cartoon bird...!!

 

Keith

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Or someone with an exhibition layout with long baseboards! Not me though, as I can get about 13ft lengths in my van!

or a funeral director. Please note that these collectors' items were photographed during a historic cemetery open day.

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Down here, they don't wave hammers at other drivers. They pull out firearms instead.

 

Not really a hammer, more of a mallet....but then, the presence in the argument of a deftly held lump-hammer is sadly all that too many drivers understand these days...[or indeed, 25 years ago]

 

On-board cameras are the great levellers these days....especially when worn on one's head?   But hey, apparently, what do I care? :)  :)

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I thought that kind of crude racism through mimicry was unfashionable these days.

 

With some of the things I've been called being Welsh with a Japanese great grandparent, if that comment was racist then God help us all!

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Erm, anorak-head on..there has never been a Mustang Saloon.....always either a fastback, coupe [as in the photo] or convertible....sorry, but I have a coupe....which gets out as much as I dare... :)

I suppose mechanically speaking a Ford Falcon is a Mustang saloon, like a Cortina is a Capri saloon.

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Someone obviously saw the cartoon in last month's Modeller....

I had seen it, but had forgotten it! It was the 'no Studebaker' comment made me go to the only other file where I might have had an American car - but again 'no Studebaker'. I wonder if they do make hearses. Something else to Google in the wee small hours!

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I suppose mechanically speaking a Ford Falcon is a Mustang saloon, like a Cortina is a Capri saloon.

Except that, in both cases not one body panel, floorpan or suspension component was shared?

(At least as far as the 2nd type of Capri range was concerned.)

 

Certainly the Mustang doesn't make for a decent 4 seater, the coupe being the most user friendly. Not a lot of legroom in the rear. I've been stuck in the back seat of mine more than once. Lots of width, though. Plus the coupe does give rear seat passengers their very own windows, which do wind down! Better than the iconic fastback!

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Except that, in both cases not one body panel, floorpan or suspension component was shared?

(At least as far as the 2nd type of Capri range was concerned.)

 

Certainly the Mustang doesn't make for a decent 4 seater, the coupe being the most user friendly. Not a lot of legroom in the rear. I've been stuck in the back seat of mine more than once. Lots of width, though. Plus the coupe does give rear seat passengers their very own windows, which do wind down! Better than the iconic fastback!

I had always wondered why Cortinas were OK to drive but Capris were total ****.

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I had always wondered why Cortinas were OK to drive but Capris were total ****.

 

 

The six cylinder Cortinas didn't like going around corners though - the extra weight at the front must have been a bit too much......

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The six cylinder Cortinas didn't like going around corners though - the extra weight at the front must have been a bit too much......

A friend installed a 3.0L V6 in a Mk11 Cortina with a 2000E gearbox in the mid 60's. Only used 2nd and 4th when he discovered it would eat first gear and the torque made 3rd redundant.

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The Mk1&2 cortinas were quite different animals to the later models the earlier ones were more akin to an escort in the suspension department.

The Capri was really a model on its own but the engine line up was similar to the cortina albeit with larger capacity V6s

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