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incisor
15th January 2015, 12:36 PM
http://image.nettiauto.com/extra/carimg/2946101_2946200/land-rover-range-rover-2946197_jt_31c023f2c46b11fe.jpg

Land Rover Range Rover Vogue Maastoauto 1977 - Vaihtoauto - Nettiauto (http://www.nettiauto.com/land-rover/range-rover/2946197)

opening the tailgate might be a bitch.....
Mick_Marsh
15th January 2015, 12:51 PM
There was a fellow in the 101 club who converted his 101 to run with a gassifier.
Can't say I'd be tempted to drive to Perth with one.
Don 130
15th January 2015, 07:57 PM
Aussi inventor extraordinaire Kurt Johansen ran his station wagon (Dodge Pheonix?) on a wood gas producer, and toured all over the country using a small chainsaw to provide fuel from the roadside. His book 'Son of the Red Centre' is a great read.
http://driveonwood.com/forum/1025
Don.
Mick_Marsh
15th January 2015, 08:09 PM
My grandfather ran a taxi with a wood chip gassifier on the back in Adelaide during WWII.
Sitec
15th January 2015, 09:25 PM
Dare I ask how you stumbled across that advert Inc? :)
incisor
15th January 2015, 09:30 PM
Dare I ask how you stumbled across that advert Inc? :)

facebook....
Sitec
15th January 2015, 09:53 PM
facebook....

Ah, yup fair enough! :)
Chucaro
16th January 2015, 08:48 AM
My first impression was a setup to distil something to run the RR on spirits and have a drink during the winter nights :D
Just wonder which kind of suspension have at the back.
JDNSW
16th January 2015, 09:16 AM
Aussi inventor extraordinaire Kurt Johansen ran his station wagon (Dodge Pheonix?) on a wood gas producer, and toured all over the country using a small chainsaw to provide fuel from the roadside. His book 'Son of the Red Centre' is a great read.
http://driveonwood.com/forum/1025
Don.

I doubt very much that Dodge used the name Phoenix in the 1930s, and if my memory serves me right (I can't find the book - have I lent it to someone?) it was a ute not a station wagon, which would have been very rare in the early forties. I don't remember him using a chainsaw either - an axe, I think.

Gas producer vehicles were not particularly rare during wartime fuel rationing - the difference was Kurt designed and built his own.

I have a Defence department pamphlet comparing commercial gas producers for vehicles dated 1940 - there are about twenty different designs.

John