Think Aussie customs are bad with asbestos in imports - the French want to crush a HK!

[commodorenutt]

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/0...et-compartment

Because Holden built its utes and panel vans on station wagon floorpans from about 1956 through 1971, achieving a flat bed floor meant enclosing a small space behind the cab and ahead of the rear axle, where the station wagon had its footwells, as well as a space behind the rear axle, where the utes keep their spare wheel and tire. Typically, as Australia’s Street Machine magazine pointed out, that underfloor space went unnoticed until rust started to accumulate there.

However, when the ute reached Calais last month, French drug-sniffing dogs found what he described as a 30-year-old joint in the ute’s spare wheel. That, in turn, led French Customs officials to conduct a more intensive search of the ute, during which they came across the ute’s floor gap. Declaring the gap a “secret compartment” that could be used to smuggle more drugs, Customs officials seized the ute and informed McKimmie they will destroy the vehicle.

Busted by a 30 year old joint?

But it's crazy that they won't accept the legitimate evidence that the floorpan left the factory like that. So did other GM products - like the El-Camino.

[Junkyard-Dog]

It would probably be some pretty good stuff...

[snap0964]

Weird spot where the one 186 badge is. Being a ute, IIRC the 161 donk would've been the std engine, with no badges.

[commodorenutt]

It was a Kiwi assembled one, so perhaps they were responsible for differences over Aussie assembled ones, or the owner who had it in the Netherlands?