Thread: Hypothetical: Series One Hybrid

if you not going the original resto route, why rstrict yourself to narrow axles.

I have seen 80's converted in V8 coil sprung still 80". You could use a modded RR chassis. I have seen a Zuk on a RR chassis that had rear steer, this was a french truck.

The 80's had pretty ok wheel travel, narrow springs and the early ones had the shackles at the other end.

If i was to build an 80, I would re-create Mal Storey's that had his own built rear steer back in the 60's

Originally Posted by uninformed

If i was to build an 80, I would re-create Mal Storey's that had his own built rear steer back in the 60's

here it is but it was never thought it was on an 80 chassis, maybe there was an earlier version ??

Originally Posted by goingbush

here it is but it was never thought it was on an 80 chassis, maybe there was an earlier version ??

Thats his "sidewinder", formally known as "Rova" .....he had converted other LR's to rear steer well before he built that one in the picture, which has his own fabricated chassis.

Originally Posted by uninformed

if you not going the original resto route, why rstrict yourself to narrow axles.

I have seen 80's converted in V8 coil sprung still 80". You could use a modded RR chassis. I have seen a Zuk on a RR chassis that had rear steer, this was a french truck.

The 80's had pretty ok wheel travel, narrow springs and the early ones had the shackles at the other end.

If i was to build an 80, I would re-create Mal Storey's that had his own built rear steer back in the 60's

80" WB sucks bigtime offroad Serg. There is footage somewhere of an 80" ibex doing an end-end roll down a mildly steep hill.

Ahhh yes Ben, but this is a hypothetical....and it wouldnt be my offroader. Just a chance to recreate some Aussie history. Mal's 80 was his first rear steer he built.

Originally Posted by uninformed

The 80's had pretty ok wheel travel, narrow springs and the early ones had the shackles at the other end.

I owned an 80'' for a few years back in the 1970's, but it had front and rear difflocks. Without the locks the contemporay Willys Jeeps trounced them in almost all offroad scenarios. Occasionally some masochistic LROCV member would bring one over on a trials event, and nothing I have seen them do has changed my opinion. The earlier front shackled models did climb better than later versions, but wheel travel and traction of both versions sucked compared to the Willys.
A commercially available Kit version of the green roadster, or should that be offroadster? would be cool providing it was made from metal, not that horrible fibreglass that British kit car makers are fond of
Bill.

Bill I have heard from yourself and Rick about Jeeps wheel travel. I was more comparing the early 80 inch to say a SII or SIII.

Id have a Original RRC over any Original Series any day of the week

Originally Posted by uninformed

Id have a Original RRC over any Original Series any day of the week

Me too but the silly design features on the one I have really annoys me every time I have to use it.
Bonnet release on wrong side, ridiculous bonnet safety catch.Upper tail gate jambs every second time i need to open it. Interior trim, switchery and controls that deteriorates and falls to pieces like no other vehicle. The quality and condition of the interior of my much neglected 89 Jackaroo is far superior to the more upmarket Rangie. Maybe a Jackaroo body on a RangeRover undercarriage would be a practical compromise.
Bill.