I could be wrong, but from all the pictures I've seen the Acclaim looks
like an 80-82 Civic 4 dr rather than the Accord. General specs I've seen in
Triumph World mention a 1300 cc engine. These were never installed in US
spec Accords, even the 76-81 Accords started life as a 1600.
At 05:29 PM 10/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I believe that this was the Triumph Acclaim. It is suprisingly similar
>[{:-)] to our Accord of the day.
>
>Shawn
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>Original Text
>From: "Ken Bertschy" <kentop@dakotacom.net>, on 10/14/98 5:18 PM:
>Whilst perusing one Michael Sedgwick's many car books, I came across this
>quote from page 234 of his "Cars of the 50s and 60s":
>
>"...Soon, too, the Japanese would be drawn into the international picture,
>with liasons between Chrysler and Mitsubishi, General Motors and Isuzu, and
>Ford and Mazda. In 1981, a deal between British Leyland and Honda would
>lead to a race of almost wholly Japanese Triumphs."
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