Welcome aboard. You are in the right state for Belletts. There was a dirth of them a few years ago. The Green GT was al the way from Queensland. No GT type Rs were imported officially and I don't think any were privately done. Good luck in your hunt for a Bellett.

Peter

Ah the old shovelnose.

There's a blue early model Shovelnose getting around Adelaide with the numberplate "REN-something" being a period correct R-plate for South Australia.

I spoke to the guy who owned it and almost got into an argument with him as to whether he was in the Bay to Birdwood a couple of years ago.... then a few weeks later, I saw ANOTHER blue early-model RT40 with the numberplate "REN-something".... and they were definitely different cars.

They're cool cars! Find me a ute! I saw one for sale for $400 - why the hell I didn't buy it....

Welcome on board!

Thanks for the welcome guys. I am lucky enough to have a corona ute in the shed, although a major restoration job. Anything is possible with time and money though isn't it? Unfortunately i am plauged by a lack of both! To be honest some people may say I have a Corona obsession with a total of 10 in varying states, all sports other than the ute. But hey most of them have been saved from paddocks and under gum trees and are now in a shed being preserved. But now another underated Japanese sports car is needed, there is a bay with it's name written on it. Bellett GT. The hunt is on!

P.S: I know of a Bellett wasp hiding in a farm shed.

dont add a p.s. like that here! or you'll get swamped by us all wanting it!
welcome to the site mate!

And I know where there is a Corona Ute
KB

lol you tease! nice to see two can play at that game!!!

welcome mate. good to see someone looking after another version of jap cars too. after all, the variety of cars that have seen our roads is amazing for such a small market (in world wide terms), and if someone doesnt care for each one, they will disappear and part of our history will go with them.


no. there's a beautiful replica in sydney that is as close as you can get tho.


i have the exact number documented here somewhere, but simply:
17,500 odd GT's built in total, including all model types.
only 290 imported to aust. between 1966 and 1969-70. there was 55 PR90's and 235 PR91's. all were 1600 pushrod engine'd. estimated there are 50-ish left.
for interest sake, there was approx 170,000 odd Belletts in total, including the GT's.
aust. got about 16,000 sedans between 1964 and 1970-71. a guess would put the number left at well under 1,000, and most likely would be half of that.
Tassie was the last place here to receive them, and as such, Tas has some late, late sedan versions that mainland aust never saw (like the 71 sedan i've seen with the long strip speedo similar to an HK Holden).
don't know how many Wasp's were built, but we only got 1 shipment of 122 of them in 1965. no more were ever brought here as it took 3 years to sell that 122! there's only 15 or so known left, making them the rarest when they were new as well as today.


see above. and rod's GT is a nice car.

Jap Man, I don't know how to do the link thingie, but if you go to 'for sale', the car listed as "69 auto F/S in Brisbane came from down there.
Just out of intrest.
Cheers, Matt.

Hi Matt, yes my (listed) Bellett came from Tassie...Launceston. Cheers, Clyde

Thanks alot for the information PR91. Amazing how the cars just slowly disappear, sad too! Did any 1800 GT's arrive in Aus, I see there is one for sale in Japan. I won't dangle anymore wasp carrotts if people are going to reply with equally smart and teasing information! Ha ha.

no probs dude.


nope. only the 1600 pushrod versions. all 1800's in Bellett's were SOHC, but I've been informed that there may have been a couple of 1800 DOHC GT-R's built, but can't confirm this.
we got the PR90 that had the G160 3 main bearing 1600, and the PR91 had the 5 main bearing 1600.
the first we saw of an Isuzu OHC in any form was the G---Z series in the Gemini.