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Awesome Avenger! I remember seeing that car on Trademe last year. I remember thinking it looked pretty sweet because you don't see Avengers in white too often and the Modgies really suit the white body.
Good score on the donor car and race engine. Are you tempted to put on the dual dellortos? They make an Avenger fly and they sound really cool.
I love the steering wheel (Same as the wheel in my '75) that Alpine dashboard and tacho look really good also. I am going to do the same on mine except I have an Alpine dashboard with the tacho built in (instead of the blank cover you have in the 3rd guage)
Those carpets aren't hard to replace, both Hunted and I have replaced our carpets with Autodec carpets.
I look forward to seeing it in person some day. Hopefully you can make it to the next Avenger meet.
Great work so far and keep us posted on all the latest work you do.
holy shit that is a COOL 1st car
My Brown Avenger was my 1st car also at 17 back in 97
good stuff
nice liking the look of that look forward to some more pics and info
did u get that off a guy in hamilton and he had run a bearing in it?
Yeah that'd be him i think
sweet. he had it on trademe for about 5k before he ran the bearing
then 3k when he stuffed it but i asked for 2300 and he said yes with no hesitation so i was stoked as
wow. sweet deal. thats what i got mine 4 and i got it completely standard lol, and ur interior is dyed balck ae
i thought it was 1974? did he list it wrong on trademe?
I'm pretty sure it's a '75? i hope i got it right haha. yeah its like sprayed black and all the paint is peeling probably because the black makes it sooooo hot in the summer. So a good interior is on my list of things to do. Where did you get yours?
lol ur rego slip should tell u what year it is? yeah he said he dyed it but fuck sitting on that in sumer. aparantly it used to be the reverse of mine so it used to be...blue roof and white seats. i got mine from kawakawa about a year ago, north of whangerei
It is a 74 i have no idea why i was thinking 75 while writing this hahaha
probs coz everyone else has 75's lol
Good starting car Kid, and by God u made a much better choice than an escort etc, I think all you avenger guys in NZ would like MPH speedos and the fuel gauge reads, 0 . 5 . 10 galls. I can probabbly find for you, see the MPH pic i have.
If its a '75 year model it'll have a SU carbie, advice:
Carefully remove after getting your stromberg replacement, take sledgehammer or pick.
Batter liberally the f*** outta the BL SU.
At last, someone who likes Strombergs over SU's....lol
I get amazing economy out of the Stromberg carbs in my Hillman Avengers, Chrysler one a bit thirsty though, maybe has a different needle or has just been adjusted richer, as it doesn't stutter when cold like the Hillmans...haha
I'd say it was Chrysler being cheap 'cos the SU looks to be a universal carbie so they could use the same unit on a 1300 Avenger as a 1725 Hunter, just a diffrent needle.
SU was British Leylands carbie, It'd only be bad luck to curse your Avenger with a part from a Morris Marina!
BTW a story from the '70s regarding a Marina and an Avenger.
The guy I bought da'venger drom told me he went to a race, as a spectator, in his then Avenger, pulled alonside a slope by the track.
Was a hot day so he draped a blanket over the roof and he and his girlfriend sat on the Avengers roof.
Along comes someone else and pulls up beside him - in a Marina. The BL driver seen what our man had done and went to do the same, took the back seat blanket and put it over the roof. They both sat on the Marinas roof and...
kerrrunch!!!
The roof collapsed!
As we know, the Avenger you can dance on the roof.
Sadly it seems there are more Morris Marinas with their dangerous handeling and trunnion 1940's type suspension - you had to pump grease into the front every month at least otherwise the front end would collapse - around than Avengers.
Or is it that you keep your Avenger? try to offload your Marina.
Didn't they sell over 1 million Marina's in the UK?
Avenger's never sold that much, could be why there's more Marina's around?
As a mechanic working on them, we used to call them Mariner's coz they handled like a boat....haha
I think the first TR7's used Marina gearboxes and rear axles...no exactly sports car hardware...lol
I don't know how many they sold, too many, we used to call them the 'Morris Marijuana' 'cos they broke down or fell apart that often you'd think the lads in the factory were high or something.
My Father had a 1977 1.8 2-door, that was one legendary heap of shit!
If it went two weeks without a breakdown you were doing well.
I remember one time the mechanic was finished fixing a snapped front trunnion (again) and it went like this:
''..Okay Frank, its done..'' Dad jumps into the Marina over the pit, starts, clutch down, goes for reverse...
BANG
The gear-bag broke.
It didn't even make it off the pit without breaking down again!
His was a 1.8, the gearbox could hardly cope with the 1.3.
As I say, there is no comparison with an Avenger and a 'Morris Minor with shoulder-pads'
should just change the name of the website to ihateescorts.co.nz since it seems pretty unanymous
Haha, well Escorts are our archnemesis. It's like NZ vs Aussie, a classic rivalry.
Hillman kid, Didnt you crash your avenger at some stage bro??
Did you have rotary in it at one stage??
Im 16 man. Sweet Ride bro, I own a 1979 Avenger Van bro, i live in Auckland, If your ever up in Auckland and Keen for a cruise,
Give me a shout bro, Im always keen to take my baby out. hahahah
Cheers Mikey.
BMC O series OHC motors are actually pretty choice. Even with stupid automatic gearboxes.
I love it when people say "Sweet Escort bro" or "is that a Escort?" Its nice to correct them.
ever since i put the avenger sticker on the back i havnt had an escort comments, except from people just trying to wind me up about it
did u buy that car with an oldschool.co.nz sticker on there or did u buy that