Hi from Australia! I bought this 1979 Chrysler D50 Sport at the beginning of the year. Also known over here as the Mitsubishi L200 Ute. This little ute was originally the Promo vehicle for Chrysler Australia and was then re-badged for Mitsubishi Motors Australia and kept as the promo vehicle for the model run from 1979-1986. It was subsequently sold to one of the Chrysler/Mitsubishi mechanics and largely owned by that family all these years until recently. It hasn't done a lot of work over the years (140000kms) and has been garaged and kept original. It has a factory fitted 2.6 and 5 speed as well as factory fitted air con, so it's specked the same as an American Dodge D50- we only ever had 2lt 4G52 or 4G63 motors in them from factory over here. I believe the 2.6 & 5 speed came from the Scorpion/ Sigma production lines. Anyhow, it's very rare for an Aussie car and a great little survivor. I plan to restore it fairly faithfully- it has quite a few engine gremlins at present, the main one being a head problem, burning off a lot of coolant. So i'm weighing up rebuilding the 2.6 vs swapping in a DOHC 4G63 I previously converted into another L200 some years ago that I recently bought back as a wreck. I'll post something about that car separately.
Hope it's of some interest to you good people!
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