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Leo Contesini
3 January, 2021
Replying to James Gilboy
This is Just part of the story. From 1976 to 1990, there was an import ban as a protectionist measure. Despite the overpopulated metropolitan areas of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro ir Belo Horizonte, Brazilian mid-west and southern states always had a great demand for trucks. This is why we had the F1000 (Brazilian iteration of F150) and the aforementioned D20. But then came the import ban, not only for cars, but also for electronics, clothes, shoes, musical instruments... There was a huge demand for all of this, but we were Just not allowed to have them. Then the Brazilian adaptations began to show up. Some of these "transformations" were pretty similar to American SUV, like the Brasinca Andaluz or the Brasinca Mangalarga - the only way to have a Chevy Blazer in Brazil back then. Others, however, were designed and built like Full size sedans on truck chassis. And here enters the diesel restrictions for passenger cars: Brazil is a continental country such as US. We drive a Lot for travelling and gas prices are a bit expensive. Diesel have government subsidies, thus the legal restrictions to passenger cars. So these kind of sedan truck was invented based on legal loopholes regarding diesel vehicles. When the import ban was raised in early 90s, trucks and SUV like the Jeep Cherokee and Grande Cherokee, the Toyota Hilux, Chevy S10 Blazer and even Ford Explorer became Very popular from 1993 to 1999, before the First BRL/USD crisis.
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Here's an oddball truck I saw in person yesterday at the Symco Weekender
The guy mounted a hit and miss engine into his truck. He said the top speed was about10mph but he was able to complete a sled pulling contest with the truck, it has plenty of pulling power.
Here's a write up about the builder and truck
The guy mounted a hit and miss engine into his truck. He said the top speed was about10mph but he was able to complete a sled pulling contest with the truck, it has plenty of pulling power.
Here's a write up about the builder and truck
https://www.farmcollector.com/gas-en...zm0z21julzbut/
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It looks like they are still doing things differently. Here is an ad for a Ram 700. https://www.thedrive.com/news/36976/...riginal-dakota
i ain't rite
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
Argentina had the Ford Falcon until 1990 or 91.
it was based on the 62-63 American Falcon.
they could do a lot of things down there because they did not have EPA or government meddling.
it was based on the 62-63 American Falcon.
they could do a lot of things down there because they did not have EPA or government meddling.
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It appears he's homeless and lives in the truck, and forgot to take out the garbage this morning. Seems to have had a good stock of TP though.