The holy grail?

[isuzutoo-eh]

On ebay now, 6x6 4BD1T County

LAND ROVER - COUNTY 110s 6X6 - eBay, Passenger Vehicles, Cars, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 11-Sep-08 11:01:18 AEST) (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270271196770)

Appears to be in immaculate condition too!

-Mark

[Phoenix]

Very nice!

[dobbo]

nice yes, holy grail no,

it hasn't a crew cab body and a bobtail nor is it poo brown.

[Bigbjorn]

My estimate of its retail price is $15000, giving a premium for apparent condition.

[weeds]

it must be just arund the corner from rons place.....

[isuzurover]

Nice.

It was strange that they made the Perentie 6x6 with a (12" or so) wider track than the civvie 6x6.

Anyone have any idea how many were sold? I think I have only ever seen 1 in real life.

[D3Jon]

Nice.

It was strange that they made the Perentie 6x6 with a (12" or so) wider track than the civvie 6x6.

Anyone have any idea how many were sold? I think I have only ever seen 1 in real life.

One of the UK Land Rover mags did a feature a couple of years ago on the Aussie specific LR's and went into some detail about the Perentie contract and the development of the wide cabs and the 6X6. I'll have to dig it out.

I had a good look at an army 6X6 Perentie wide cab that was sitting out the back of Barbagallo's when I was there with the D3 one day - very nice, can't wait until they get released for sale! :)

Jon

[Phoenix]

D3John, if you are there again get the chassis number for us ;)

[isuzurover]

D3John, if you are there again get the chassis number for us ;)

I live/work not far from there. If I am passing I will drop in.

[Phoenix]

Cheers :thumbsup:

[EchiDna]

is it just me or does the compliance plate look like it's on the air cleaner housing?

[D3Jon]

I live/work not far from there. If I am passing I will drop in.

Ben, it was a couple of months ago, I think it was in having some work done. Doubt it will still be there now :(

Jon

[isuzurover]

is it just me or does the compliance plate look like it's on the air cleaner housing?

The compliance plat is the silver thing on the firewall behind the air cleaner.

The silver and black sticker on the air cleaner says "Donaldson Cyclopac" and gives the specification and instructions for the filter and the housing and filters(s) PNs. Surely you have one on yours?

EDIT: Jon - thanks for that!

[D3Jon]

Nice.

It was strange that they made the Perentie 6x6 with a (12" or so) wider track than the civvie 6x6.

Anyone have any idea how many were sold? I think I have only ever seen 1 in real life.

Just had a quick look at my magazine stash and found the article in question. It estimates that 80 or 90 6x6's were made by JRA for the Civilian market - all normal width. Apparently the wide body version was not offered to the civilian market due to the high cost of making the wide body models.

Of the army 6x6's, 400 were ordered under project Perentie and more later in the mid 90's under project Bushranger. I would think that JRA only went to all the trouble of making the wide bodied 6x6's that the army requested as the remainder of the Perentie contract was for 2500 one tonne 4x4 110's -in total the contract was worth $150 million according to the magazine article.

Jon

[EchiDna]

The compliance plat is the silver thing on the firewall behind the air cleaner.

The silver and black sticker on the air cleaner says "Donaldson Cyclopac" and gives the specification and instructions for the filter and the housing and filters(s) PNs. Surely you have one on yours?

Mine's got the silver compliance plate in the same spot (firewall) but no sticker on the air cleaner unit at all.

I thought it might have been a mod plate for the 6x6 "factory conversion". anyway, thanks for the clarification, I feel like a bit of a dill now :(

[isuzurover]

Thanks for the info!

Hmm - those numbers suggest they were only paying 50k odd per vehicle...

May have been right though as a civvie 110 was only $22k in 1984. I heard that they were lore like $130k each though - but that may have been the extra batch that was ordered in the early '90's.