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WesternRed 
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 Posted: Feb/06/2013 at 9:19am |
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Was quite unusual seeing both the Red and Green cars for sale around the same and both with the 290 in them.
You might have to loose that rear wing, otherwise it looks pretty pidy.
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Posted: Feb/06/2013 at 10:31pm |
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I always thought the rear wing made it go faster lol weird story with this one the previous owner was pretty sure it was a factory rhd imported hornet with factory 290 which doesn't line up with the info on the net but can you be sure it's not an anomaly? How would I know but he did say something about the cut outs and they were because it wasn't an Aussie car
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Posted: Feb/06/2013 at 10:46pm |
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Don't want to look like a fool its just what he said I bought it because it just looks awsome
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WesternRed
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Posted: Feb/06/2013 at 10:48pm |
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I would speculate that the cutouts in the front bumper were made to fit yellow indicator lights, to comply with local regualations.
The easiest way to identify Australian assembled cars is to check the door tag if it's still attached. The paint and trim codes will be blank because this stuff was done locally so the US factory didn't know what to stamp.
It would be fairly easy to replicate the factory RHD conversion using parts from a local Hornet.
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Posted: Feb/06/2013 at 11:44pm |
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Cool thanks guys
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Posted: Feb/07/2013 at 2:52am |
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You wouldn't need to cut out the bumper to fit amber lenses when you could just put amber lenses in the housings you have: like this
 By the way, did you read all the way through the can's and can'ts of the Motor Reg information document ? |
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Posted: Feb/07/2013 at 3:53am |
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With what the previous owner is saying.... the cut outs in the bumper meaning not an Aussie Hornet. Well that is incorrect. No Hornets were ever made with cutouts no matter what country of origin. With the 290.... never produced after 1969. Being a RHD Hornet if correct, It should have an Australian Compliance plate on the firewall unless it was removed or a private import. All Australian built cars had this compliance plate from 1970 on onwards. Just my 2 cents worth.
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74gremx
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Posted: Feb/07/2013 at 4:41am |
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You're right; I didn't word it properly, that no Hornet, made here, the US or South Africa ever had indicators in the bumpers. A lot of hard work to make it comply with 'local' requirements when amber lenses will fix the problem.
Let us know the door tag and whether it has one of these on the firewall.  and one of these 
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Posted: Feb/07/2013 at 5:56am |
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Never thought about the compliance plate, my Rambler experience is 1969 era so before those things came into fashion. It's amazing the number of cars you do see where the aussie build plates have been removed during restoration and not re-installed.
I guess somebody didn't know about the availablilty of amber indicator lenses and came up with their own solution. Of course these days you can just install amber globes to solve the problem. I think the story with the 290 engines is that a number were supposedly dealer installed in WA rather than factory installed but then I also reckon Ben Ludlow was inolved in a few conversions. Back in the day my understanding is he was more of a mechanical repair buiness and ran a big wrecking yard that specialised a bit in Ramblers.
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Posted: Feb/07/2013 at 3:02pm |
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Ok so I need to get amber lense covers to make indicators?
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