Down on the Wrecker.....the winter wind is just ignorant

"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo) 10/30/2020 at 18:19 • Filed to: None

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An Iraqi taxi, an oddball mundane transport unit from Canada, ordered in bulk by a fella named Saddam Hussein.

Image: Iraqi Government Department of Procurement. they feature this odd mirror placement (They’re all like this) Heavy tweed bench seat, air conditioning and......

A floor shift manual transmission. These are a low-key collectable in Canada. and the only Manual trans A/G body made after 1980. Factory cat delete too. Meant to be used as police and taxis in Iraq, then the deal came undone and GM of Canada had thousands of these oddballs on their hands.

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also this beauty:

Note the testarosa stripes. I’ve been informed that only in panel van form do these come with low back buckets like 60's dodge A-vans. I don’t know why.

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 18:37

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Cool!  I’d love to get my hands on a decent one of those.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > shop-teacher 10/30/2020 at 18:40

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I briefly owned one, black 60,000 km 3 on the floor, heavy service everything. It was awsome if slow.  I picked it up for a friend who is kookoo for these and he’s swapped in a 3:73 posi and plans for a t-5.   I got to drive it for a few months before he got it.  

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 18:42

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The Snowman > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 18:50

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I wouldn’t mind having the pedal box from one of these to convert a g-body  el camino bolt in stuff is sweet.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > The Snowman 10/30/2020 at 18:54

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El caminos also came with this setup all the way to 88 I think, these were the last manual CAR on the platform.  

dogisbadob > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 18:58

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Isn’t the El Camino a car? A ute is a car, right? The pickup car :p

The Snowman > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 19:02

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Manual el caminos are hens teeth in the western usa.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > dogisbadob 10/30/2020 at 19:02

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Trar

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 19:03

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The Iraqi taxi problem repeated itself a few decades later - GAZ signed a $100 million deal with the Iraqi government in 2003 to deliver 20,000 Volga 3110 taxi cabs by the end of 2004. The first batch of several hundred were finished and awaiting export at the time the Coalition of the Willing launched Operation Iraqi Freedom and wound up stranded at the factory. This was when GAZ’s own brand passenger car business was in its waning days, and the deal was a pretty important lifeline for Volga.

I believe the Coalition Provisional Authority did ultimately agree to honor the contract for at least the first 5,000 cars. They had a few upgrades over the typical Russian domestic market 3110s - power windows, air conditioning, higher compression engine, and a higher capacity alternator. The whole thing was partial compensation to Russia after the Saddam’s Iraqi Oil Ministry cancelled a major development partnership with Lukoil at kind of the last minute.

Sovande > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 19:21

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La st year for the El Camino was 1987. Last year for factory manual transmission in an El Camino was 1981.

Sovande > The Snowman 10/30/2020 at 19:22

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They only made them with a manual until  1981.

onlytwowheels > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 19:24

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Check out this El Camino I just found, with the chrome mirror on the left side and regular El Camino mirror on the right. Also, V6 with 3 speed manual.

https://classics.autotrader.com/classic-cars/1980/chevrolet/el_camino/100772982

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 10/30/2020 at 21:13

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Neato!

The Snowman > Sovande 10/30/2020 at 21:45

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That lines up with the scarcity I have seen.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > shop-teacher 10/31/2020 at 11:02

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Black wasn’t a factory colour. The one I had went into service as a brand new car in the 1990s. original owner bought 2 and stored one putting it into service when the first was wrecked. According to him you just signed up for a car didn’t get to pick, just got yours in the order it was unloaded. All were identically equipped.