I've know about some American makes being made in foreign countries. Canada had versions of GM and Ford cars with different model names. Studebakers were assembled as RHD models in Australia and there may have been others. Last week I was trolling the Internet and this Knights car club plaque photo caught my attention. It was in the back window of a car ... When I took a closer look, I noticed that it was a Chrysler and wondered if anyone on here has ever seen one like this.
Classic Australian car design is on display at the National Gallery of Victoria. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY, Detroit (manufacturer) United States est. 1908. GM HOLDEN LTD, Adelaide (coachbuilder) est. 1931. Pontiac all-enclosed coupe (Silver Streak) 1938 body designed Hartley Chaplin and Tom Wylie. Collection of Violet Cecil, Melbourne. NGV
I have always loved the English 34 Ford. There was a guy who had a yellow one, here in So Cal, I used to see at shows. Don't know what happened to it.
Some info posted by Bruce Lancaster RIP Here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-european-deuce-thread.970652/
Railtons are interesting, Hudson 8 running gear with a British body, they’re as quick as a Bentley from the period
Also the M-100 pickups ... I read somewhere that they were still building this one year only model into the 60's. May have been in Brazil.
Betja' every Aussie here on the hamb has seen one. But it,s the Chrysler Wayfarer ute that stole the show and the Valiant ute was pretty as well.
did you notice the weird phone number, weird license plate, and steering wheel on the right side of the car? They have neat stuff down in Australia, which is where you'll find the 04 country code in a phone number.
Yeah the Acadian brand of Canada was a mix match of Chevy and Pontiac held together with unique maple syrup, lol. Also GM had quite a few “reassembly” lines outside of the US. They would get disassembled cars from one of the US plants and then put the car back together and adding any local road requirement items or special regional options. You see this with Novas and first gen F bodies
Never heard of the special maple syrup before. But I've had a few people tell me that Pontiacs were just a Chevrolet with lock washers.
There are all sorts of differences in Canadian vs American cars in the h.a.m.b. era which went away after the Auto Pact between our countries came into affect.
If you want to deep dive into this, wiki is probably a good starting outline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ford_vehicles Just ran across a cars wiki site, EDIT: Out of date! https://wikicars.org/en/General_Motors_Company there will be other sources too. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/01/here-are-all-43-gm-brands-listed-in-one-place/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chrysler
There were some interesting cars built in South America too, one example was they built Willys cars (not Jeeps) in Brazil up until 1971.
All Nash/Hudson/Rambler Metropolitans were made in England. Usually when a US carmaker sold cars in the US that were made in other countries, it was a rebadged version of something from that foreign market, but not with the Metro.
The Chrysler Royal was made here from a bunch of leftover U.S. Dodge, Desoto and Plymouth bits. My first car when I was 16! 313 V8, push-button auto, power steering and brakes, it went like a rocket! There was a company , Australian Motor Industries (A.M.I.) that used to assemble CKD's from all over the world, Rambler, Toyo, Renault, VW, etc. The GM lines would mostly make Chevy's and Pontiacs (using Chevy mechanicals) until about 1968 here, alongside the local Holdens. Ford did the same with the mid -50's Fairlane (all called Customlines here), and then made the '59 model (tank or barge Fairlane), skipping the '57 models from the U.S. Most of the 9" rear axles from these models now live under the many hot rods here. We tended to use what was available (and cheap) in the early builds.
Australian assembled 1948 Oldsmobile 76 series, note how the rear differs from its US assembled counterpart , these bodies were built by Holden.
Don't think I've ever seen a MoPar of this vintage with the "Overdrive" plate on the trunk. Looks especially out of place on this upscale Chrysler.
These Chev utes (utilities) were another Australian only car built by Holden. These came in as CKD bodies from Canada that were finished here
Looks like a late version of a Victoria body style - bigger than a coupe, smaller than a two-door sedan.
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