Ditto the admiring comments above. It looks like a lovely example and well looked after. A good one reminds you just how damned attractive they were! And useful to boot ...pun intended!
All of the Australian import series 3 HPE`s (renamed HP Executive) and Coupes had the stainless steel window trim painted black to give them a more "contemporary and sporting 1980s look" but which was a visual negative and detracted from the lovely lines of the car in my opinion. Not to mention that the paint looked crappy when the Australian sun had taken its inevitable toll!
To my knowledge, there were no fuel injected Betas officially imported into Australia because the importer was fearful that the new fangled fuel injection technology would give too many problems reliability wise and swamp them with warranty claims. So they deliberately requested only carburettored stock and hoovered up the remaining global RHD supply to be able to keep selling carbie version Betas until production ended.
Which makes me wonder whether Lukas`s 82 HPE 2000i.e. is a UK sourced private import?
