My ride, as a company car in the late '80s; a Chevrolet Kommando, South African assembled and very "Vauxhall" with a 3800 V-6 and Auto
I don't know how this came to be in New Zealand, it was the only example I ever saw. Parts were no bother except on one occasion the starter pinion exploded into dozens of bits and nothing off-the-shelf fitted, I reassembled the pinion out of the shrapnel, took this to a mechanic friend who was a GM buff and he pored over the interchange manuals until he discovered a GM marine pinion that was identical
Wikipedia suggests over 25 million of the V-6's were made, making these one of the most produced engines ever
Kommando? A nice, comfortable powerful car that could have done with slightly better brakes, they assembled P6B's in South Africa as well
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