i still cant believe he is gone

**Landy Smurf** · 2nd May 2010, 08:50 PM

hey after watching the memorial part of the logies and seeing mike leyland up there it just hit me that what a great man he was and i wish he was still here today he still had so much more to give to the world.im not sure if anything has been done before i asssume so but i feel like i need to do something to honour him.maybe a really special trip one that links a australians and the country

**banjo** · 2nd May 2010, 08:53 PM

Maybe recreate one of there trips & only use landrovers real ones (series)

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**blitz** · 2nd May 2010, 08:54 PM

ah hell bugger me I didnt know he had passed on - the leyland brothers shows are certainly a part of why I lived in the out back so much and why I have lived in so many remote places

**Landy Smurf** · 2nd May 2010, 09:00 PM

i was thinkin bout recreatin one of there trips or maybe go to a few of there favourite places
have to do something

**jerryd** · 2nd May 2010, 10:31 PM

Their show is on channel 72 most nights around 12.30am

I must admit I have been watching a few of them lately and really enjoy them.
There was one episode last week where they went up to Darwin in the wet season in their two landrovers. It took them 3 days to travel about 5 kilometres as they were constantly bogged in the mud. Very interesting show, I'm definately going to buy some of their dvd's off ebay

**twitchy** · 3rd May 2010, 04:57 AM

While I love my Landy & probably will never own any other type of fourby again ( except an LJ50 when I can find one) I still never understood the reverence with which most people hold these lads???? Possibly because I spent all my life in four wheel drives I didn't see them as special, just doing what we were..

**Tank** · 3rd May 2010, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by twitchy

While I love my Landy & probably will never own any other type of fourby again ( except an LJ50 when I can find one) I still never understood the reverence with which most people hold these lads???? Possibly because I spent all my life in four wheel drives I didn't see them as special, just doing what we were..

Yes, but 30 or 40 years before anyone else , they travelled a lot of places in at times suss vehicles with no chance of meeting up with someone else if they broke down, which they regularly did, places back then that could kill you quick smart, great blokes, Regards Frank.

**twitchy** · 3rd May 2010, 03:09 PM

Good point, they had some balls. My 4wd life started in 1968 (as a tiny passenger) so it just seems a natural thing to me I guess.

**Landy Smurf** · 3rd May 2010, 06:39 PM

maybe when rangie rover has got his leyland car registered

**JDNSW** · 3rd May 2010, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by twitchy

While I love my Landy & probably will never own any other type of fourby again ( except an LJ50 when I can find one) I still never understood the reverence with which most people hold these lads???? Possibly because I spent all my life in four wheel drives I didn't see them as special, just doing what we were..

I have to agree with you. My first encounter with them was at Old Andado in 1966, when they were on their cross Australia trip. At the time I was in charge of an exploration camp halfway across the Simpson, and was just going out for a break in my 2a (I actually drove non-stop from there to Sydney via Port Augusta, with my brother as a co-driver).

I had a look at their setup, and told them they were hopelessly overloaded, which they were. I have photos of them rebuilding the back axle on their station wagon in our camp. What they did not mention in their book was that they mainly followed our roads (as does almost everyone who crosses the Simpson up to today!)

John

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