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Originally posted by David_Hayward
A very interesting query that I have never thought about before! As regards North African issue, this may have been according to what was available initially from stocks that had either been assembled locally or imported assembled from the UK. I go along with what Cliff said except that in some cases the types were uniquely Chevrolet or Ford.
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One of the points that came out at the CMP`84 seminar (also discussed in Bill Greggs Blueprint For Victory) was that as one of the major assembly and rebuild yards was run by Ford of South Africa engineers they had a preference for Ford V8 and tended to replace engines with Canadian Ford V8s reguardless of what came out. This resulted in some interesting repowered vehicles Chevy trucks, Carriers, Ford Wots, Buick and even Cadillac’s. The North African staff including Kuno Stockelbach who was one the panelists at CMP`84 with many very interesting details of the rolling changes they were making to keep vehicles on the move and to solve problems.