RACQ breakdown car

[weeds]

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[Walrover]

About ten years ago I converted my 109" GS from Soft Top to a Truck Cab. I swapped the windscreen frame with the one that came with the Truck Cab so I could easily convert back to the Soft Top at a later time if I wished.

I later moved interstate leaving my windscreen (and many other Landy parts) with my father. Years later I learned that Father had kindly donated my windscreen to somebody who was building a Land Rover for the RACQ.

Great to see it went to a good home. But the moral of the story is to guard your Series parts as others don't always value them as you do.

For those with a keen eye, you might note that the RACQ Landy has no wipers and the windsreen has no holes for the wipers as it's from my 1970 model which has the holes in the bulkhead and the single wiper motor in the dash. A 1961 model should have holes in the windscreen for the individual windscreen mounted wiper motors.

[Bigbjorn]

During my time at Leyland Truck & Bus, Rocklea, we quoted Series III's to RACQ and they bought Toyota.Their reason being too many axle breakages on Land Rovers. Our service dept. reckoned they were towing on hard services in 4wd against the instructions in the owner's handbook.

Our retail sales manager sarcastically asked if a name change was imminent to the Imperial Automobile Club.