Hope this may help as well.
Jeeps in Australia on The CJ3B Page
Scroll down mid pages and has info on build figures for Jeep Australia nd also info on the combat 6
JTO
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Hope this may help as well.
Jeeps in Australia on The CJ3B Page
Scroll down mid pages and has info on build figures for Jeep Australia nd also info on the combat 6
JTO
here's some pics..... funnily enough, the owner went looking for info himself and this thread was one of the first he found!
round 2 of the pics....... cant help but wonder where the bonnet mount came from!
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Originally Posted by Jeeptheone
Excellent info, although funnily enough that history totally neglects the importation of CJ5's and 6's from '74 through '77 or so by LNC industries. (They also brought in a very small batch of Wagoneers and J10 and J20 utes)
They really pushed the brand hard through their existing dealer network, (can't recall what else they brought in, but they were a fairly large car importer) but the finish quality on the CJ's was shocking and they were bare bones basic, no options or comforts at all including the basic 232 cu.in (3.8l) and three speed T14a Warner gear box :(
The only non-US addition was a locally fitted Smiths heater, which was useless (same as the locally fitted Land Rover one ??) with an inlet cut into the passenger side guard and the US heater inlet in the scuttle at the base of the windscreen blanked off.
In the US you could also order the 258 (4.2) and 304 V8 engines as well as the T18 four speed 'box with a usefully low first gear but they just weren't available here.
At least they had a Dana 44 rear end (only a Dana 30 in the front)
They just weren't specced well enough against Land Rover with a four speed 'box and a nice low low, or the new threat Land Cruiser with a nice four speed, a heater that worked and some pretence towards some sort of comfort.
Only Nissan's G60 still soldered on with a three speed, and it was handicapped by a real lack of articulation too.
I remember as a nine or ten year old kid in short pants crawling all over a new CJ5 at Ron Barrett Motors in Penrith and being horrified at all the rust on them, the paint was so thin.
It didn't stop me buying one though when I was old enough :D
Jeep and nasty. It's a jeep thing........
(excluding the "original WW2".)
Regards Robbo.
for what its worth, single circuit brakes and no sign of seatbelts ever having been fitted....
anyone able to tell more from the pics?
Standard for the period.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sprint
My '70 J3000 (actually looked to be a US '68 or so model, fully imported from the US for a mining contract according to the old fella from Stokoe Motors when I ordered parts years ago)
It only had single circuit brakes and never had belts fitted right up until I took it off the road in '91 or so.
I broke a line off the M/C once on the Northern Road near Penrith, that got my attention when I hit the pedal and it went to the floor and traffic was stopped in front of me :eek:
Yes standard.
The 1971 model I looked at recently was the same exceopt it was a ute instead of a table top.
Just a few notes.
the wiilys australia plate is the same as in my 1960 model.
They were optioned from the factory with a bonnet spare wheel support if you wanted it with non landrover parts.
the spare wheel bonnet had two renforcing ribs down the middle of the bonnet underneath.
the bonnet wheel holder was the same as used on the side body rear.of the CJ3b to CJ6
My jeep is fitted with a folding windscreen and foldout export type windscreen glass , the later CJ6 I looked at and this one has a fixed windscreen.
The willys 4 cyl hurricane motor is still in my jeep and i wouldnt have it any other way as the drive train..ie three speed box works very well off road and eats the falcon motor which doesnt have the spread of torque and therefore the need of a four speed box.
i know from experience in traffic light drags the falcon motor and willys motor perform the same and the falcon motor eats the willys in towing and top end performance.
The BW diffs while they are different in some respects and parts are generally not interchangable,they are similar to dana/spicer.
The local rear BW diffs had a better single piece semi floating design with no hub cap in the centre of the drive axle while the imported diff had the small hub cap.
standard springs and spring bushes were poor.
I up graded mine with war time jeep shackels and reworked the standard spring pack and it rides supprizingly well now.
The war time jeep was not rubbbish and was ver well built and made.
my 1960 jeep of raod and performance wise eats series 2a landies for breakfeast.
the landrover wins on heavier build and greater payload in the real world.
cant speak for the back diff, but from the markings on a couple of the front diff, its definitely a toyota diff.....
G'day rick130 :)
The company LNC was "Lark Neave & Carter" they also were the agents for VW,Audi, and a franchised dealer for Leyland/Rover they were best known by their retail name in the 60's-70's as Lennox Motors at Drummoyne in Sydney,the company was a long standing motor trader and importer with a history dating before the 1930's depression,and is still probably involved in the automotive industry in some form.
That motor in those pics looks very like a Ford Falcon 170 pursuit motor colour seems right as is the intake manifold being part of the head casting,can't remember if the 200 super pursuit motor was the same colour or not, the single head manifold casting was what put a lot of people (including me) off the early Falcons,as well as the fact the manifold was often porous,when the later style motor came out in the XR Falcon was when they gained popularity, and that Z10 oil filter rings a bell too.
cheers