AP6 Australian Valiant overview

Video number 3 in this series of model by model looks at the Australian Valiant range.

[@claytondewey3367]

Another great video to wake up to. I love the wagon and ute. Would love to find something like that in the US. 👍👍👍👍

[@mikldude9376]

Good video mate , I had a few Val’s over the years, I always thought my first valiant was an AP5 , but it did have the auto selector on the column so maybe it was an AP6 , mine was a sedan with a bench seat , a good old car. My next Val was a white VC sedan , another good old car , both had the slant 6 , my next was a CM wagon 265 ELB , it was in really good order , but I had a bunch of cars at the time and no space , I sold the wagon almost for peanuts , kicking myself now , as in recent years I was wanting a big wagon again …. Ah well, thems the brakes😊. One of things I love about those cars , was they were built to be entirely practical vehicles , simple , easy to work on and maintain. I’d love to have the old AP6 wagon in a V8 today , they can stick all their plastic fantastic gimmicky electric cars right up where the sun don’t shine . 😊. Thanks for posting. Cheers.

[@NathansMoparGarage]

Good stuff. It crazy how all those small details add up.

[@judgedread-q4t]

Good stuff. My dad had a grey AP6 station wagon from new, I remember throwing up in the back when I was four. Unfortunately the car set fire to itself on a country trip about two years later.

[@PhillipMurrayChester-sg9uj]

Thanks Tavo, from Chrysler fan. Love the detail history. I’ll be eagerly looking forward to all your next reviews. Love to learn new facts I didn’t know.

[@jimclarke1108]

Never noticed the differences, interesting

[@Patrick-yj2nh]

Thanks mate very enjoyable

[@nickbruni8041]

👌🏼🍻

[@barrycuda3769]

In 1974 , my father bought a two tone blue AP6 , manual trans, Regal interior, about forty four thousand miles, beautiful condition,it was a great family car ,he updated to a well kept VH Ranger XL in 1980, and that same year my first car was another AP6 identical to his . Now Iv'e got an AP6 Regal and dads old VH .When I first got the Regal I had to repair the front left side fender, the prior owner must have swung the car around and hit something that put a sharp crease in the top of it , I'll always remember how tough it was to fix , even with a porta power, very strong metal. Iv'e never properly ascertained what differential it has , but assume its a 7 ,1/4 , it's a 1966 car , maybe you can help with that , also , are they a Chrysler made diff , or Borg Warner? 👍

[@TAVOAu]

AP6 would have had the Chrysler 7¼. Part way through the VC they changed over to the Borg Warner 75 (7.5")

[@barrycuda3769]

@@TAVOAu Is the Borg Warner stronger ? Iv'e heard that the 7 1/4 , isn't thought of as strong, but the one in my first car held up to my youthful torture testing, with no problems .

[@TAVOAu]

@@barrycuda3769 Lets just say, I've broken B/Ws behind stock 245s 😂

[@barrycuda3769]

@@TAVOAu Oh really, the B/W in my VH has never given any trouble, it's never been treated cruelly though. I had to update to a replacement B/W 35 Automatic transmission though , out of a VJ , apparently they are better than what came in the VH.

[@Australia-ky7kx]

Interesting story about these good cars. I guess most teen boys would have wanted a Valiant V8.I did!

[@paulthew2]

Look how easy it is to work on the V8 engine (as it is with the six). For all the improvements in modern engines, I do miss the simplicity.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

G'day from the USA. Beautiful looking car. We have a similar car called the *Plymouth* Valiant. Our version has a similar front end and body appearance but a different aft end. And for some reason, we never got a ute version. Damned if I know why. We got a Chevy El Camino and a Ford Ranchero. Since I'm not from Australia, or even New Zealand, I don't know what cars from that part of the world are like. But being something of a classic car enthusiast, I'm interested in cars from all over the world, Germany, Japan, Australia, South America, North America, etc. 🙂

[@TAVOAu]

Hi Jason. Thank you for viewing and commenting. Your car actually came first, and ours, as in the video, was adapted from the US Plymouth, hence so much of it looking very similar. Front doors, rear door lower half and front sheetmetal directly interchange with your Plymouth model. As you mentioned, rear treatment was a local Australian design. As models progressed, more Australian input went into designing them, but all of ours, until discontinued in 1981, were built on the US A body platform.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

@@TAVOAu It's too bad it was discontinued when it was. Although I'm not from Australia, I like Australian designed cars more than our American designed cars, probably because I'm told that most of Australia's outback were awful to cars, and car chassis needed to be beefed up to withstand rough driving between towns. Our roads aren't perfect either.

[@mexicanspec]

Hey TAVO, were reverse lights available on these Valiants?

[@TAVOAu]

All Australian Valiants had reverse lights. But they were amber as part of the turn signals, which was common to most Australian makes and models. The one exception being the VC model wagon, to be revealed in the next clip.

[@heffsshed9542]

Where you located

[@mapp0v0]

My god the brakes on these were terrible.