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Hello. I'm the owner of this page and this is my Dodge LeBaron. Or Diplomat if you want. Its the same thing. This car is an Export model built to be sold outside U.S. then its named LeBaron. That means it has an speedometer in km instead if miles. I bought this car in januar 2003 and it has since been undergoing a "rolling mechanical restauration" to bring it back to original specifications after years of abuse. The car was originally bought by a nice fellow from Porsgrunn, Norway in 1979. It went the 3 first years of its life as a 3 seats wagon with the back seats folded down due to economical reasons at that time. After 3 years you could register it again, and use the car as a 6 passenger car. This car is now registered as a 5 passenger car, and will soon be registered for 6 passengers. The first owner sold the car in 1993, and since it has had 12 owners.The fun thing, is that I called the first owner, and he actually had the first receipt from 1979! so he sent me the receipt and the Car Productin Broadcast sheet! You can see the receipt and Car production broadcast in the photo gallery below. Then I bought it. The car was in not to good shape when I got it, but a year with love and reparations, has done wonders for the car. This car is both my daily driver, and my car hobby, so its a nice and cheap hobby in the long run. The car has it's original paint intact and several waxing jobs, has made the paint shine again. Among things I have done to make this a car on the road again, is; Choke adjustement, partly new exaust, refilled Air Condition, repaired the Door locks, new shocks, front and rear, wheel bearing front and rear, completely rebuilt the brakes, some eletrical jobs, and bought new summer and winter tires. All in all it has been a nice car for me, and in Norway to be a daily driver, this is a special car that makes a view wherever I go. Its not unusual to be stopped and it makes people talk. I'm planning to upgrade the engine though and my plans is to convert it to EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection), change camshaft, and maybe, headers if it'll get cheap enought. The Eletronic Fuel Injection kit I will use, is Megasquirt and hopefully, it' will be done before the summer ends.You can read more about Megasquirt here: http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html My car has originally according to specification sheet, with catalyst and EGR (Exaust Gas Resirculation) system; 135 Hp net. Since the catalyst and EGR is removed, and catalyst take 10-15 %, an low estimate is now about 160 HP maybe more. I find the car rather quick to weight about 4000 pounds (1950 kg) and dreams quite often of what a small tune up will do to my engine.or what a 360 could do. I urge you to send me an Email if some of you has converted a Chrysler 318 to Megasquirt EFI. My email: |
Hei. Jeg er eieren av denne siden og dette er min Dodge Lebaron. Eller Diplomat om De vil. Det er den samme tingen. Denne bilen er en eksportmodell bygd og solgt utenfor Amerika. Da ble den kalt Lebaron. Det betyr i praksis at den har et speedometer i km istedenfor amerikanske miles. Jeg kjøpte denne bilen i januar 2003 og den har da gjennomgått en liten "rullende resturering" for og føre den til originale spesifikasjoner etter år av misbruk. Bilen ble opprinnelig kjøpt av
en hyggelig fyr fra Porsgrunn, Norge i 1979. Den gikk de 3 første årene av
dets liv som en 3 seters varevogn med baksetene foldet ned på grunn av
økonomiske grunner den gangen. Etter 3 år registrerte eieren bilen igjen,
og brukte da bilen som en 6 seters stasjonsvogn. Første eieren solgte
bilen i 1993, og siden da har den hatt 12 eiere. En morsom ting er at jeg
fikk kontakt første eieren, og han hadde faktisk originale kvitteringen
fra 1979! Han har sendt meg kvitteringen og bilens Productin Broadcast
papir. Dere ser kvitteringen og bilproduksjonssendingen i fotogalleriet
under. Min epost: |
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