1971 VH Valiant Charger

[junkafide]

I'll update this a bit, but the lowdown is I have always had Aussie Chryslers

In 2010 I bought this VH Valiant Charger and have only recently bought it home and started working on it. 

It will be a patina build with nice trim and engine bay.

Here is an overview if you can get past my rotten mug, and some crappy audio!
 

 

[iceman510]

Interesting car.  Looking forward to what you do to it.

 

[ggzilla]

reminds me of a Plymouth Barracuda crossed with a Celica. Nothing like my Plymouth Valiant. I had a gold one with a green door. My friend who lived 1000km away had a green one with a gold door ... what are the chances?

 

Does it have the Hemi, or does it have the V8?

 

 

[Rustbin]

It looks like  68/69 fast back Barracuda with a slightly different door skin, front end and rear tail panel. I wonder if they shipped the dies down under since it was a two year only model?

[Duncan]

I was scratching my head a bit over the 265 Hemi.  I remember Chrysler offered some lower displacement V8 Hemi motors in the 60's, but I haven't heard of a 265 6 cylinder.  I need to look again, but here they offered a 270 6 here in the US called the "slant six"  I had a '65 Dodge with that motor, and it ran great and was super reliable.

 

Forgive my rambling.  That's a nice looking car, and looking forward to see what you do with it!

 

 

 

[ggzilla]

They had the Slant Six in Australian Valiants, used in the early cars. The Chrysler Hemi-6 replaced it. It started in USA as a replacement for the Slant 6, but Chrysler realized they didn't need a replacement. So, Chrysler Australia finished the design and shipped it for 1970. While we got the malaise era here in america, the muscle car era continued down under!

On 4/2/2025 at 3:24 PM, Duncan said:

I was scratching my head a bit over the 265 Hemi.  I remember Chrysler offered some lower displacement V8 Hemi motors in the 60's, but I haven't heard of a 265 6 cylinder.  I need to look again, but here they offered a 270 6 here in the US called the "slant six"  I had a '65 Dodge with that motor, and it ran great and was super reliable.

 

[datzenmike]

My first car was my dad's 5 year old '64 Polara 225 slant six. First thing I did was wide oval tires, then made an adapter and put a 318 two barrel on it. Needed a bicycle hand brake cable to make it work. Last was splitting the front 3 cylinders from the rear three and running dual exhaust through glass pack 'mufflers'. From 30-90 it would equal a buddies 283 swapped Chevelle 3 speed.

 

It was a hemi in name only.

[Rustbin]

The problem with the slant six was after about 300k they would start using oil.