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Carlton
240z
WOW!
I was considering a 240Z instead of my Alfa actually, but the right car came along at the right time. Lovely example, just right.
On the Alfa's seating and steering wheel, my car came with a dished Alfetta wheel and some plump leather seats from a Megan. My hair was brushing the ceiling and I couldn't get my wrists the other side of my knees around corners, so I basically looked to extend the column with a boss and fit a slightly smaller steering wheel, whilst sourcing the smallest slimmest seats I could. As a result my 6'4" and 34" legs are actually quite comfy in the Alfa now. Took a bit of getting there though. The retrim in my family colours was recent, as the quality of the cord upholstery from Corbeau wasn't the nicest.
Carlton
240z
WOW!
I was considering a 240Z instead of my Alfa actually, but the right car came along at the right time. Lovely example, just right.
On the Alfa's seating and steering wheel, my car came with a dished Alfetta wheel and some plump leather seats from a Megan. My hair was brushing the ceiling and I couldn't get my wrists the other side of my knees around corners, so I basically looked to extend the column with a boss and fit a slightly smaller steering wheel, whilst sourcing the smallest slimmest seats I could. As a result my 6'4" and 34" legs are actually quite comfy in the Alfa now. Took a bit of getting there though. The retrim in my family colours was recent, as the quality of the cord upholstery from Corbeau wasn't the nicest.
ked by the look of it.exitwound said:
Awesome wee beasts!! 
A man who knows his Subaru's. They are in deed awesome wee beasties. Have been tempted to buy one of these for ages...strip and whip over engine and running gear to a WRX...250bhp in a Brat/MV is a near perfect Q car and still able to take the sheep to market; just a shame they rot faster than any car producedThe fitted twin rear seats to overcome the US chicken laws being one of the craziest car options of all time...
lucido grigio said:
I googled USA chicken tax.
"The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch,dextrin,brandy and light trucks....."
If you keep going on Wikipedia..."The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch,dextrin,brandy and light trucks....."
The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken.[1] The period from 1961–1964[2] of tensions and negotiations surrounding the issue was known as the "Chicken War," taking place at the height of Cold War politics.[3]
Eventually, the tariffs on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy were lifted,[4] but over the next 48 years the light truck tax ossified, remaining in place to protect U.S. domestic automakers from foreign competition (e.g., from Japan and Thailand).
As an unintended consequence several importers of light trucks have circumvented the tariff via loopholes—including Ford (ostensibly a company that the tax was designed to protect), which imported the Transit Connect light trucks as "passenger vehicles" to the U.S. from Turkey and immediately strips and shreds portions of their interiors, such as installed rear seats, in a warehouse outside Baltimore[1] — and Mercedes, which imported complete vans built in Germany, "disassembled them and shipped the pieces to South Carolina, where American workers put them back together in a small kit assembly building."[8] The resulting vehicles emerge as locally manufactured, free from the tariff.
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