Thread: For the love of cars - Land Rover

Good show I thought. I'd never had much interest in the S1 but now I want one What a great little truck and really cool to see grown men getting emotional about it. Tom was a cracker.

The Stag episode. Once again, for the same reason, disappointing,..too much waffle, & not enough about the actual "RESTORATION" of the Stag.
What about the state of the original body,..only very sparce info as to where all the rust was, & even less as to how it was repaired,...what did they do to the engine?.....nothing on the trans, brakes, suspension etc, and what about the trim,....how did it get changed from brown to black?...No details.
I'll still watch the Series, but I think the actual restoration "work/process" could be a lot more explanatory.
Pickles.

Unfortunately while many of us might like to see more of the technical details of the restoration process, the show is obviously not intended to be that sort of show.

It is primarily intended to be entertaining and only a minority of people would be entertained by the sort of detail that some of us might want.

I thought it was interesting about the Stag cooling system. The show made a point of demonstrating that the cooling system was perfectly adequate.

The only thing I knew about the Stag before watching that show is that a friend of mine who owned one could not drive it up the main street of Tamworth without it boiling.

Like many others here, I would be interested in a bit more technical detail, but I know I am not going to get any more of that sort of detail, because that is not the focus of the show.

I would have liked then to discuss why the Stag was built with the T bar rather than a conventional convertible - it spoilt the looks of the vehicle.

The reason was not strength - that could have been incorporated into the body but rollover protection. The world was going safety conscious at the time and there were rumours that the US was going to ban all new fully convertible cars so British Leyland hedged their bets with the Stag. Note initially there was no open XJS or TR7 - other notable cars being developed in the UK at the time - it was only after the rumours did not happen that open TR7s and XJSs were built.

Garry

Our friend Ant Anstead is up to some different things now....
Like shoehorning a LS3 into a defender........

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Originally Posted by garrycol

I would have liked then to discuss why the Stag was built with the T bar rather than a conventional convertible - it spoilt the looks of the vehicle.

The reason was not strength - that could have been incorporated into the body but rollover protection. The world was going safety conscious at the time and there were rumours that the US was going to ban all new fully convertible cars so British Leyland hedged their bets with the Stag. Note initially there was no open XJS or TR7 - other notable cars being developed in the UK at the time - it was only after the rumours did not happen that open TR7s and XJSs were built.

Garry

The TR7 one was really interesting. I always assumed it was the old 3.5 buick/rover V8 in the triumph. Fancy them making there own. It sure does sound the part though.

It'd be nice if they put more time into showing us how the car was restored and repaired. They brush over probably 1000hours of labour on the car itself in maybe 90seconds of camera time.

There bodywork/paint guys sure are spectacular. I did think they'd blown up that rebuilt V8 on the dyno though.

seeya,
Shane L.

The Triumph TR8 did not use the 3.0l Triumph V8 but used the Rover 3.5l V8.

As far as I am aware the only car to use the 3.0 Triumph V8 was the Stag.

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

The Triumph TR8 did not use the 3.0l Triumph V8 but used the Rover 3.5l V8.

As far as I am aware the only car to use the 3.0 Triumph V8 was the Stag.

Garry

I meant Stag... .my brain automatically wrote TR7 'cos there the only ones I've really seen out here