Land Rovers................

[jerryd]

...........Cannot do this :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2VAO2vk8Y&feature=youtu.be

[V8Ian]

Nor can a Dodge Journey. ;)

[dawsey]

all on 6 inch tires and leaf springs ..good bit of driving there..

[nat_89]

Haha crack up!!

[V8Ian]

all on 6 inch tires and leaf springs ..good bit of driving there..

I'd bet they were closer to 3" than 6, that's why he can do it.

[superquag]

... with TWO wheel drive on cross-ply tyres. :eek:

[JDNSW]

Tyres were most likely 30x3.5. A major advantage is that it probably had better ground clearance (including under the diff), breakover, approach and departure angles than any current Landrover - and almost certainly weighed a lot less than any current Landrover, and had a lot of the weight over the driving wheels.

John

[Ausfree]

Photoshopped!!!:whistling:

[67hardtop]

Arent u all glad they got better shockys nowadays :p:p:p

Cheers Rod:wasntme:

[4x4 MORE]

Tyres were most likely 30x3.5. A major advantage is that it probably had better ground clearance (including under the diff), breakover, approach and departure angles than any current Landrover - and almost certainly weighed a lot less than any current Landrover, and had a lot of the weight over the driving wheels.

John

Indeed!;)


it's crazy to think that's what passed for roads in those days..:eek:

[JDNSW]

Indeed!;)


it's crazy to think that's what passed for roads in those days..:eek:

You don't have to go that far back - the scenes shown would have been typical for most roads in Australia outside the cities until the 1950s - until then, most travel by most people, was by train (There were a few strategic highways sealed, but not many). From about 1950 onwards there were major roadworks all over the country, and the next twenty-five years saw almost all major highways at least sealed, even if many only had a single lane of bitumen (a Queensland special in particular), and most ferries on highways replaced by bridges.

Since then, most effort has been on upgrading roads that were already sealed, although there are probably still a lot more kilometres of unsealed roads in the country than there are sealed.

John