Before the commentator mentioned that one was 74 years old, I was thinking that you would struggle to find that many Landcuisers that were manufactured within their 1st 10 years
in one country, let alone one spot.
Most would have rusted away by now
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Before the commentator mentioned that one was 74 years old, I was thinking that you would struggle to find that many Landcuisers that were manufactured within their 1st 10 years
in one country, let alone one spot.
Most would have rusted away by now
Until the fairly recent craze of spending $bazillions doing up almost anything with wheels, I'm not sure the FJ/LJ LCs had quite the same following that Series cars do. That's changing, but seeing quite so many unrestored in one spot? Probably not.
Love that the only one that had trouble had a Holden engine in it....
There is a resurgence in the US of going off road in the original Jeeps - called the Go Devil Rally. There are a few you tube clips floating around. Been going for the past 3 years. They must still run original running gear and same size of tyres that they originally would have had in order to participate. They are not shy of where they take them.
Remember that the Rubicon trail was originally conquered in a "Willys Jeep"
Dunno about that. There are photos dating from the 1920s showing Studebakers on the trail.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
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They were probably the best roads around in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
A few years ago I got a book written by one of a group of young Englishmen who rode their pushbikes round the world in 1896.
The thing that struck me most about their trip- there were no roads away from towns in most places - between towns, you used trains.They rode most of the way across the USA down between the rails on railways (illegally). It was a lot better than what passed for roads. The situation would have been very similar in the 1920s.
One thing about doing it that way is there would be few hills to climb.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
......and I'd be fairly certain that they moved over for any rail traffic![biggrin]
The sensible thing to do would be to climb into a boxcar as the "rail traffic' went by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saitch
