Avengers on Trademe (NZ's EBay)

[oldschool]

Another optimistic seller! https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/chrysler/avenger/listing/3687237862?bof=AzdjByuK

[JoKer]

Nice wagon too : same one was seen on the Hoist last year (coming up for sale) iirc the Wheels caught my eye too, though no photo here

[oldschool]

Maybe it's being re-listed/re-sold..remember seeing it on TM for $8k a while ago.

[avenga]

That wagon was on Facebook marketplace a few months ago, around the same time I got my latest wagon and van

[HenryM]

77 nz made grey hillman avenger wagon but its deregistered at Te Awamutu : https://www.trademe.co.nz/3694870880

[avenga]

77 nz made grey hillman avenger wagon but its deregistered at Te Awamutu : https://www.trademe.co.nz/3694870880

FYI

Those plates don't match the wagon

https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=jh4031

The plate is from a 1979 Chrsyler Avenger Sedan and the car is a 1977 Hillman Avenger wagon.

I remember talk to either this owner, or the prior owner. and the tags have been swapped at some point, I think it happened back in 2010 because the ODO drops.

At some point somebody has taken the VIN tag and number plate off a '79 Chrysler sedan, and put it on this '77 Hillman wagon. I suspect probably this wagon was deregistered back then, so instead of reregistering it, they just used the tags and plates off a different car.

At a normal WOF, nobody would probably notice, but because it's deregistered, you will need to get it reregistered, and they will probably spot it then.

[HenryM]

1977 Chrysler Avenger Hillman Avenger Alpine https://www.trademe.co.nz/3696215443

[HenryM]

Above 77 Alpine is sold now.

Makes the 73 Alpine in Eskdale Napier a bargain starting at $1200 no reserve and it's rego on hold.

[HenryM]

Hmm, This "Wagon" is back on trademe.



https://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=2000621196

Something very dodgy about it. I think it has had it's number plates swapped. He is selling it as a 1979 Chrysler Avenger wagon, even though it is clearly a Hillman wagon, which puts it at pre-78. And when you carjam the number plate then it comes up as a saloon, not a wagon, and the VIN number on the plate matches a saloon.

https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=JH4031

Not sure if I should say anything on the auction, because the new owner might be in for a nasty surprise when they go to register it and find that the plates are for a Chrysler Avenger Saloon, but the car is a Hillman Avenger Wagon.

Found old add about that wagon from 3 years ago. It's same one. Thought I had seen it once before.

[avenga]

Found old add about that wagon from 3 years ago. It's same one. Thought I had seen it once before.

Yeah, that's the one. I checked back on my emails and forum messages. He was a forum member and we talked quite a bit about the rego status of his wagon via email. Back then both his wagon and Alpine were still registered, they have both lapsed now.

[HenryM]

Another in Canterbury 
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/profile/748754121/?ref=permalink&tab=listings

[HenryM]

Another in Dunedin
Think might been for sale couple of months ago.
1975 hillman avenger https://www.trademe.co.nz/3716258158

[JoKer]

whats on the fire wall passenger side? Wires / coil coming out of it? Windscreen squirter motor?

[HenryM]

Fuel regulator system ?

[avenga]

whats on the fire wall passenger side? Wires / coil coming out of it? Windscreen squirter motor?

I recognise that number plate, I met the owner down at the yearly MoPar run we do in the South Island, that was back in 2018, and that year it was in Richmond. It didn't have the stripes back then and it only had the single carb. We did the run out to the lakes together, I think from memory he had some overheating issues. I have a photo of it parked next to my V8 wagon

The thing on the firewall, the windscreen squirter isn't plugged in, you can see it just hanging, coming down from the center of the firewall then looping up around towards the fuse box so it isn't a wiper pump.

If you trace where the hose going down the fender goes, it has a plug that isn't connected to anything just across from the carbs, This makes me think it is a fuel pump that's not being used anymore. There is a big hose going to it from next to where the clutch is, that is where the standard fuel hard line goes to, then there is that other coiled pipe that goes down the fender and stops next to the carbs. If you zoom in on the other side of the engine, down by the drivers side where the mechanical fuel pump normally is. You can see there is a blanking plate instead of the mechanical one, and you can see another electric fuel pump and filter down there, between the battery and the distributor.

My guess is that he used to use the old electric fuel pump on the firewall when he had single carbs, then when he switched to twin carbs he installed the new electric pump down by the distributor and didn't remove the old one.