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In Reply to: Today's used car posted by Craiger56 on September 23, 2021 at 10:33:08:
Myself, I owned an '83 Mitsubishi Montero, 2-door style, for years in Alaska.
I swear that car could climb cliffs. Deep snow, mud, rocks, whatever was there was driven through.
Loved that car; has it long time. Women liked it; it gave me stud status.
Iron block, aluminum head on a 2.6 liter 4 cyl motor. It blew head gaskets from dissimilar metals wharpage. The factory fix (finally) was to heliarc weld a bead of reinforcing aluminum crossway between the cylinder domes on the underside of the head.
Had to drive backward to unlock the front hubs. I pitied the fools in Ford Broncos out in the snow drifts doing the same thing by hand on the freezing hubs.
Later imported to the US as the Dodge Raider..
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