RE: Land Rover 1969: PH Ad Break

[Ayahuasca]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IozlzIQwMeE&sns...





Old Land Rover instructional video -

Cracking commentary "... A Land Rover, immobilized, is a moral defeat for the driver..."

Edited by Ayahuasca on Friday 15th November 21:32

[belleair302]

Anybody think this Bowler Championship apes the Camel Trophy of the 1980's???

[schmalex]

leafspring said:

schmalex said:

The air filter is an oil bath way up high at the back right hand side of the engine out of the way, near the bulkhead and the intake is at the top of the left front wing. They can wade to pretty good depths without a snorkel (way, way above the height of the sills, although you'd rather not, as the doors leak like a sieve)

The welder is far too busy working on the the "non rust-proofed chassis" to have time to even think about body panels!

Nearly right

The one in the ad is a Series 3 (which is odd for a 69 advert... probably a prototype as the Series 3 came out in the early 70's)
The oil bath air filter is in the engine bay, driverside of the engine, next to the battery and draws air in through the top (from inside the bay, high up) level with the wing tops.

The vent in the passenger wing is only the intake for the heater.




Now you know where my forum name came from

ETA: that jump at the end will have hurt... I doubt he has any spine left intact

Edited by leafspring on Friday 15th November 17:35

I couldn't remember! It's been a while since I've the bonnet of mine up!

[leafspring]

schmalex said:

I couldn't remember! It's been a while since I've the bonnet of mine up!

It's behaving?* that'd make me want to check just to see what I missed


(* Unreliable Land Rover is a flawed stereotype: our SII has had 4 'modern' driveway companions come and go over the last 13 years and is still the most reliable vehicle we've got)

[Ledzep]

According to the NZ website Carjam, FW1652 was first registered in NZ in April 1972, but it had been registered overseas before that. The registration plate was changed to UP1027 in 1996 after seemingly being off the road for 4 years. Its last WOF inspection was Oct 2001 with the recorded mileage around 154,000 (not sure if this is miles or km).

[vtgts300kw]

Ledzep said:

According to the NZ website Carjam, FW1652 was first registered in NZ in April 1972, but it had been registered overseas before that. The registration plate was changed to UP1027 in 1996 after seemingly being off the road for 4 years. Its last WOF inspection was Oct 2001 with the recorded mileage around 154,000 (not sure if this is miles or km).

Good to see I wasn't the only one who went and looked.

[bernhund]

Funny. I recently posted a fictitious scenario on PH where you had to choose one of the vehicles from my current fleet in an all out anarchy type situation in the UK. There was no policing and every man for themselves. My cars are: new Nissan Juke (petrol),3 year old Transit (diesel), Noble M12GTO, 1971 Landy (petrol). The majority went for the 42 year old Landy which to me says a lot about modern vehicles and the simplicity of the Landy.

[Clivey]

bernhund said:

Funny. I recently posted a fictitious scenario on PH where you had to choose one of the vehicles from my current fleet in an all out anarchy type situation in the UK. There was no policing and every man for themselves. My cars are: new Nissan Juke (petrol),3 year old Transit (diesel), Noble M12GTO, 1971 Landy (petrol). The majority went for the 42 year old Landy which to me says a lot about modern vehicles and the simplicity of the Landy.

"High tech is high risk", as they say. - Unfortunately, modern vehicles tend to be built for short term profit rather than long-term reliability or serviceability. - The common sense thing to do would be to build-in mechanical redundancies so that if the electrics stopped working, the vehicle could still continue on, albeit at a more basic level.

Another problem is that there is simply too much interfering legislation these days. - A chemistry set stuck on your exhaust (DPF etc.) and a ton of delicate electronic safety equipment isn't ideal.