{"id":59940,"date":"2020-08-17T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=59940"},"modified":"2020-08-16T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:41:49","slug":"for-sale-1989-london-taxi-with-a-8-2-l-chevy-big-block-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=59940","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: 1989 London Taxi with a 8.2 L Chevy Big-Block V8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This custom 1989 Austin FX4 taxicab is for sale<\/a> in Marbach an der Donau, Austria for \u20ac44,990 or about $53,360. The car came from the factory with a 2.2 L diesel inline-four making under 100 horsepower but it’s now powered by a 502 ci (8.22 L) Chevy big-block V8 making 450 horsepower. An automatic transmission sends power to a Ford 9-inch rear end and out to a set of wide Hoosier tires. <\/p>\n

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Source: RSD W\u00f6chtl<\/a> via Piotr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This custom 1989 Austin FX4 taxicab is for sale in Marbach an der Donau, Austria for \u20ac44,990 or about $53,360. The car came from the factory with a 2.2 L diesel inline-four making under 100 horsepower but it’s now powered by a 502 ci (8.22 L) Chevy big-block V8 making 450 horsepower. An automatic transmission… Read More »For Sale: 1989 London Taxi with a 8.2 L Chevy Big-Block V8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":59944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-austin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1989-London-Taxi-with-a-8.2-L-Chevy-Big-Block-V8-01.jpg?fit=2200%2C1467&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49195,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=49195","url_meta":{"origin":59940,"position":0},"title":"For Sale: 1989 Geo Tracker with a 600 hp Supercharged Chevy V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1989 Geo Tracker is for sale in Ferndale, Washington for $18,500. 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