Reply With QuoteWelcome and it is great (read amazing) to know the "1st" one is still around. any pics ??
Hello All, First Post.Originally Posted by Disco Muppet
No idea mate, one of dads photosIt was given to LROCsyd to play with
I was very interested to see the photo of the First RR out in the bush. A Davos White Range Rover demonstrator was supplied by Leyland for a Sydney LROC trip to Webbs Creek on the weekend of 21 May 1972, and I assume this photo was taken on that weekend. At this time there were two Export RHD Davos White Range Rovers in Australia - 35600022A and 35600033A together with 35600037A in Massai Red - these were imported by Rover in the the name of the Pressed Metal Corporation, the Land Rover assemblers. One of the white cars was for the use of the British Consul and the other a demonstrator based in NSW along with the 37A. 42A in Bahama Gold was in possession of Faulls in Perth.
I now own 22A, and numerically, this is the first "official" car in the country, but at this stage I have not been able to discover whether 22A is the demonstrator beautifully pictured on the Sydney trip and posted here, or whether 33A was the demonstrator on the trip and 22A was the Consul's Car.
If anyone can shed light on this, and if there are more pictures from the Sydney club trip out there, I would appreciate seeing them. I have posted a picture of the same car taken at a quarry in Melbourne in the week prior to the Melbourne International Motor Show in March 1972.
Thanks, Ian
Last edited by p38arover; 14th March 2015 at 05:25 PM.
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Welcome and it is great (read amazing) to know the "1st" one is still around. any pics ??
Yes, it is amazing it has survived. It appears to have been sold off when the "new model" with black vinyl rear qtr panels arrived as it was re-registered in Victoria in 1973 .Couple more pics of current condition - undergoing sympathetic reburbishment.
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Not sure when the capstan was added, but it spent nearly all its life in Victoria and there is no evidence that is was on the car when it was a factory demonstrator. Quite a common accessory in the 70's and early 80's in Vic at least. I put one on my first Rangie in the late 70's after being very disappointed with a Ramsey electric winch on long pulls. Even with twin batteries and two alternators I couldn't keep up with the power drain.
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