It would make a good donor for external hing body bits for some-one restoring an older rangie; they are getting hard to source these days! But a tad expensive!
Buying a converted car gives you the hassles of havingto reverse engineer the conversion to find out hgow it was done, and put right any problems with it.
Bad enough on the car thats been converted, without trying to re-engineer that conversion again to fit something different!
Mazda motor, though I seem to recall is a Japanese version of the old Perkins, I THINK 4203? Which was a very low reving engine, with HUGE torque, renowned for killing gearboxes... possibly explains why it had to have a reconditioned X-fer!
Doesn't say whether or not its the turbo version or not; presume not; but in either case, for all the 'stomp' these thingshad, they were NO quick, and lacked gearing you'd struggle to give them and which would strain the already hard pressed drive line even further!
Looks too tidy to break tho', as advertised suggestion, would probably make a good 'hack' fopr some-one that wanted to tow REALLY heavy stuff..... like ships!
