Ahh, okay. Thanks!
Have a nice day,
Ron
The Diamante Boush which was a pretty successful mid-high class car, needed something with a little more reason to be considered the classy mans car. So Diamante overhauled it. They hired the SSP team to make a limited edition version of the Boush. Only 1000 of these were produced. The car consisted of minor changes to the body to allow more air flow in to the engine compartment and all chassis and body design modeling was fairly the same. The engine was the real reason SSP was contracted.
In 1967 a big accomplishment was made. The engine powering the Limited Boush was a 150 cubic inch inline 6 engine. All of which surprisingly, was made once again, out of all cast iron. For a valve train they still used a 2 valve push rod engine. As it was cheap to produce all of these components to the engine, it remained budget friendly.
The engine was also fitted with tubular exhaust headers, and no muffler system, or catalytic system. Allowing all exhaust to be very efficient. The engine had 1 4barrel carburetor.
This alongside a more aggressive cam and higher ignition timing allowed this engine to produce 150hp@5200rpms and 157ft-lb torque@ 4700rpms.
This was the first ever of Diamantes Engines to have 1hp per cubic inch produced!
The car had a 4 gear transmission to help plant that power to the ground and sat on 195/500/13 in the front for tires and 205/500/13 in the rear.
The tires were long life hard compound not very sporty so that the car could still be driven as a daily driver and could reach 0-100km/h in 9.90seconds. This was a much more impressive Boush.
The car had an all around premium interior, premium entertainment and premium safety features. The entire car weighed in at 2047lbs. Fuel economy was rated at 10.86L/100kms not bad!
Due to the upgrade in technology cast iron parts had become slightly cheaper to produce as well as ladder steel frames, so the car was cheaper to manufacture. But due to all the engineering time needed to make this engine produce a high output, costs balanced out, and thus the 1967 Diamante Boush SSP Limited would be sold for $32,999
Diamante regrets to inform the public that the Diamante Bella has been discontinued.
The car will not see any further models, or improvements. Although it has been a major success producing this model, it is time to move on.
For those of you who currently own a Diamante Bella, parts and servicing will still be available at your local Diamante Dealership.
This was the car that started Diamante off and will always be remembered.
However,
We do want to inform you that not all the news we bear is bad news.
Because Diamante was based upon luxury and quality, we will be replacing Bella with a new luxury car.
It will be much more luxurious, much more powerful, and of course, chrome!
The model is actually almost complete and will be released soon, for details stay tuned to the Diamante news feed!