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16-08-2024, 07:40 AM | #1 | ||
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About when did Australian market cars stop coming equipped with a hole for crank starting, and the handle to accomplish it?
One of the last I can remember was the Renault 12, which ran until the mid-seventies. Looking at pictures of EK Holdens, I can’t discern a hole in the front - but maybe it’s below the bumper, and I don’t believe even the first XK Falcons had a crank hole. |
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16-08-2024, 07:47 AM | #2 | ||
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Reckon they still exist in Melbourne's mens public toilets
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16-08-2024, 07:51 AM | #3 | ||
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That wasn’t what I meant!
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16-08-2024, 08:14 AM | #5 | ||
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For some what some reference I think a E-Series starter MAY bolt to a cross flow but a crossflow starter is NOT interchangeable with the pre-crossflow ( I may be wrong and thinking pre-crossflow to before ( I'm not sure what that motor is called/goes by( Canadian motor I think and had both a electric starter and a hand crank
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16-08-2024, 08:27 AM | #6 | ||
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60 series Landcruiser had hand crank provision, though I believe "most" OZ market ones had the larger radiator which obscured the crank nose, they ran to 1990. 40 series Landcruiser also had hand cranks (1984) aswell as a bunch of older cruisers (55 series).
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16-08-2024, 08:36 AM | #7 | ||
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surely with the compression of today's engines it would be impossible to hand crank a motor. think of trying to crank start a 12cyl Lambogini
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16-08-2024, 08:49 AM | #8 | ||
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Good points Hulsty, do you also know if Land Rover carried the crank starting option into Series 3?
Generally, too - didn’t the early Beetles have a crank hole? |
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16-08-2024, 03:08 PM | #9 | ||
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16-08-2024, 03:33 PM | #10 | ||
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Have just checked the early Series 3 Landy in the shop, crank hole in the bumper.
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16-08-2024, 03:49 PM | #11 | ||
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2H 60 Series definitely had it.
Surprised to see M&D's Renault 12 had it, but the car was designed for North Africa. Beautiful car, so comfortable front seats, you could rally it on dirt tracks happily, and a really weird (and sensible: north/south fwd means no torque steer) FWD setup. Ours was Virage wagon.
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16-08-2024, 06:20 PM | #14 | ||
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The last car in our family that I can recall having provision for crank handle was a "Beetle Backed" Phase I Standard Vanguard.
It had the little bit in the middle of the bottom half of the venetian blind style grill that folded down to access it.
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nor did any Valiants, local or imported. |
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16-08-2024, 07:15 PM | #17 | ||
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If you see this happen, then you cut it mid stream and run On a more on topic note, imagine trying to hand crank a modern car, 10.5:1 compression ratios, or a turbo diesel in the vicinity of 17.5:1 Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 16-08-2024 at 07:22 PM. |
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18-08-2024, 12:05 PM | #18 | ||
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Edit, wrong car and motor/box configuration. But I’m still pretty sure there was no crank start option for the Virage. You could troll Aussieflogs to ask them.
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