Thread: Defender Tanami Specification ?

This is taken from the latest 4X4 and campertrailer trader magazine. They have a Defender Buyers guide in it this month.
[I]In November 1994 , Rover Austalia realeased a limited edition Tanami version of the four door wagon. The Tanami was promotes by bush tucker man Les Hiddins and featured a full length roof rack, a roo bar with twin 100 watt driving lights, a snorkel, a shovel, axe and pick strapped to the bonnet, a radiator insect screen and Tanami decals. The Tanami retailed for $42,995 I]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

yeah must admit don't like that landscape decal

got a pick from the front with the tool mounts?

if your lucky i bring it to the social trip/bbq but i'll take some photos of it when i go to my parents house were it sits 90% of the time

Andy - Are you sure about the year - according to the post above it was released in November 1994. And AFAIK there was a gap between 1990 - when the last of the countys were sold off, and 1992, when the first defenders were sold in OZ.

That said, I remember seeing a tanami at a brisbane motor show - and maybe my memory is playing tricks with me, but I seem to remember it having lift-up (county) door handles, rather than push button (defender) type.

So either the tanami was introduced in 1990 to get rid of the last county models, and re-released in nov. 94, or we are both wrong...


Btw - there is one that parks at sth perth which I have seen a few times, looks tidy.

Originally Posted by p38arover

It was a spare that Graham Perkes sold to me.

Ron

Ron that is extremely interesting. The plot thickens.

Because if memory serves, Graeme rolled that car on a trip & wrote it off. The tyre came off the rim.

Again, if memory serves.. ... Graeme had fitted 7.50R16s to a 7" rim. I recall asking him if that really was ok. Presumably they were disco rims.

I could be wrong.

But if any Tanamis were fitted standard with the disco rims it puts another dimension on the wheel load rating debate that regularly resurfaces.

Regards
Max P

Australian Prices November 1994.

Prices in Australian dollars
Disco prices apparently still valid June 1995. RRP

Defender 110 3Door HT 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $36,730
Defender 110 5Door SW 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $39,450
Defender 110 (Tanami) 5Door SW 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $42,995
Defender 130 crew cab 4Door CC 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $45,500 (includes tax)

Discovery 3Door SW V8 3.9 5spd $43,960
Discovery TDi 3Door SW 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $44,800
Discovery 5Door SW V8 3.9 5spd $47,750
Discovery TDi 5Door SW 4cyl 2.5TD 5spd $48,590
Discovery ES 5Door SW V8 3.9 4auto $65,000

Range Rover Vogue SE 4Door SW V8 3.9 4auto $97,580 (classic)
Range Rover SSE 4Door SW V8 3.9 4auto $97,580 (classic)
Range Rover Vogue LSE 4Door SW V8 3.9 4auto $103,490 (classic)

redbook says they were released november 1994

Removing the full length decal & the Defender decal make a big difference (so would cleaning it !)
Decals were removed by the previous owner, he also got a copy of part of the rear decal painted on either side.

Previous owner ran an electrical company, when I bought it there was evidence of a company name on the rear passenger doors. Would have been very confusing with the decal, the word Defender and a company name down either side !


Gromit

I dont mind the Sticker