03-28-2008, 06:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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 Haberfield, Sydney
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Originally Posted by nota
Thats cool Spaz and congratulations - it'll probably be a good 1st car if you don't destroy it  (like I did mine)
From the look of it I imagine its a jap-built unit and not from Tonsley Park? |
That will be one of the cars assembled in New Zealand from CKD kits sent from Japan. This was back in the days when NZ still had a thriving car assembly (as opposed to manufacturing) business.
Lots of companies assembled cars in NZ right up until the government introduced zero tarriffs for car imports. Toyota were the last to close up their assembly lines in 1998. For some seven decades prior to this, BMC (Austin, Morris, Leyland, Jaguar and Rover), Ford, Honda, Holden, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Datsun/Nissan, Peugeot, Subaru, Toyota, Daihatsu, Suzuki, Renault and many others assembled cars from CKD kits in New Zealand.
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Last edited by motorsportnerd; 03-28-2008 at 06:30 AM.
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