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scarry
20th May 2008, 09:21 PM
on a trip up to cape found some neglected, abandoned vehicles. (this is our first attempt at pictures and we have struggled, hopefully they work):wasntme::wasntme:
Lotz-A-Landies
20th May 2008, 09:28 PM
on a trip up to cape found some neglected, abandoned vehicles. (this is our first attempt at pictures and we have struggled, hopefully they work):wasntme::wasntme:
Why would someone abandon such a nice Discovery?
Diana :twisted:
101RRS
20th May 2008, 09:33 PM
Why would someone abandon such a nice Discovery?
Diana :twisted:
Thats what I thinking, would be worthwhile trying to recover.
Garry
scarry
20th May 2008, 09:40 PM
hi
did they seem a bit slow coming up....is that something we did or just the site does anyone know?
the good looking dsco.....we took that with us don:eek:t tell anyone:mad:
if u look at the first photo you will see the guy tried to make a fence out of them
what a waste of good old pommy engineering.....they were obviously the vehicles"to have" in there day no jap things to be seen..although they might have rusted away
cheers paul
Lotz-A-Landies
21st May 2008, 12:03 AM
hi ...
... what a waste of good old pommy engineering.....they were obviously the vehicles"to have" in there day no jap things to be seen..although they might have rusted away
cheers paul
They were the thing to have right through the 1960s - the Jap stuff suffered because they were only 3 speed gearboxes.
By the end of the series 2a, Land Rover was under Lord Stokes with the British Leyland Corp and going nowhere while the Japanese were going from strength to strength with improvements in engine, transmissions and comfort.
Diana
scarry
21st May 2008, 06:28 AM
hi
the pic of the series 1 with the "roof that blew off in a storm",it is on a property near coen.the property has been handed down through the family,the yarns they tell are unbelievable."mum used to take us to school in it & if she wasnt careful she would blow all the oil out of the air cleaner,we would see clouds of smoke coming up through the water behind us,then it was my job in the arvo to fill it up again"....& they go on&on&on........
he has also got a graveyard of old tojos mostly traybacks
they did a lot of chasing & catching bullocks with the tojos.they liked the 3 speed box as they could leave it in one gear most of the time& the3 litre engine put all the power to the ground.they didnt like the later models as they had to many gears & to much wheelspin.
those were the days
ohhh & the 3 speed box wasnt much good for anything else
& the landys...you could never stop them they just kept going&going
cheers paul:)
JohnE
21st May 2008, 06:35 AM
theres a dozer under the trees, was that a goer or broken like the rest?
john
scarry
21st May 2008, 07:28 AM
you guessed it broken like the rest:mad::mad:
cheers
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