JJCH el proceso wrote:At any rate, Tango is almost certainly the most highly qualified motor mechanic cum petrol station manager in all of Punta Alta. I’d certainly get my car serviced by him, if I was in Argentina and it was a mid-seventies model, green Ford Fairlaine with blood stains in the boot.
Now now, the Fairlane was a nice model car, though not a patch on the Aussie Fords of the period...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_Cobra
and then there was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_Special
welcome to Thunderdome! Where even my Cortina was 4.1 litre straight six.. (admittedly the South African Cortina V6 was a smoother ride and turned corners better) - when you compare it to the anaemic UK 1.1, 1.3 and 1.6 versions...