As a native Pennsylvanian, I always suspected the cars shipped to north Jersey
were factory modified to have louder horns and no driver's side window to
facilitate rude hand gestures.
But then, that's the view from bucolic Pennsylvania.
Bill
Jan Eyerman wrote:
> Rootes did alot of varying of components depending on where a new car was
> being shipped to. Add to that Rootes "universal" overseas delivery (you could
> order a car from your dealer in the USA to be picked up just about anywhere in
> Europe for a vacation and then bring the car home) and you have some
> interesting possibilities. For example, Hillmans delivered to Bermuda came
> with different axle ratios then cars delivered anywhere else (plus no horns-).
>
>
> Possibly an overseas delivery to say Italy, might be fitted with a six blade
> fan. Note that the "X" in the serial number meant "different from standard
> specification" in the Rootes books, not "eXport".
>
> Jan
>
> Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com wrote:
> Sorry folks. I wrote in my description of my car that I am running the
> "stock 6 bladed fan." I got this very late Series V in 1976. It had a 6
> bladed fan which matched perfectly with the color of the pully. I always
> assumed it was the stock fan. I know this has gone around on this list
> before, and quite a few folks disagreed that it was stock for my year.
> Although the car was not new when I got it, and there certainly was a
> chance that it was replaced, I still would like to believe it was stock.
> It's not as though it's anything special that someone would go to the
> trouble of using to gain anything, and the rest of the car was bone stock.
> But, I can't get everything I want, now can I?
>
> So, sorry if I mislead you into thinking it was stock. It may very well
> not be stock.
>
> Jay
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