Thread: Series 3 "Game" : What do you know?

G'day rmp

The Game was a Leyland Marketing idea to boost sales of the slow moving SWB Landrover as at the time it was losing to the SWB Toyota and G60 Nissan Patrol, as both had 6 cylinder motors and a good road speed, the ability to reach 60 mph (100 kph) and Sustain it was a major factor in the success of the Japanese brands, so the "Game" was devised as a Sales Promotion. seeing that the NSW transport Dept and Main Dept had recently change road road and Highway markings from Yellow lines to White there was large quantities of that paint available, Leyland, always on the lookout for something that gave best bang for their buck seized the opportunity of acquiring large quantities of this paint cheaply! and so it was the basis of the New Game,model, which was basically a SWB Station Wagon with Wheel Silver upper firewall, White 15" Sunraizier Wheels brush bar (early ARB I think) and rear mounted spare, the interior trim was Deluxe Trim, with the higher back seats, and deluxe front floor mats.with rear rubber mats, all seats and trim was in black, there were sunvisors,and a clock also fitted, rear seats were the 4 side facing individual ones. all fitted with seatbelts from memory.

That is about all that I can remember, hope that is of some help, the Spare Parts list was on a appendix sheet in the front of the Master Parts Book, as in those years the horrible "Picture Books" were in use they only had illustrations and part No's with no discriptions as in the earlier books.

cheers.

Rob,
that one you have posted the pikkie of, i went thru at the victorian show in feb with my camera. there's one for sale up here and i wanted to compare equipment levels to see how it has been modified if at all.
this one has a holden 186 in it, and a bit f framework rust on the rear door, other than that, it's pretty good for the $4k they're asking.
the one you have in the photo is probably the best example around, so you've found a good one to report on.
you're ed. mentioned the upcoming story in an email recently, looking forward to it.
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G'day Barney
That one looks pretty complete, only the rear seats are missing, and it wouldn't be to hard to retro fit a 2.25 litre 4 into it or a 200/300 TDI

that photo i put in was the rear of the one in victoria that rmp put in.
the one up here in sydney needs a bit of tlc.
that one in victoria ahs only done a few thousand miles since new. it still has the original service book and the tool kit still had all of it's tools in their original plastic sleeves. it is seriously a dream find, all original and not restored in any way.

Originally Posted by barney

that photo i put in was the rear of the one in victoria that rmp put in.
the one up here in sydney needs a bit of tlc.
that one in victoria ahs only done a few thousand miles since new. it still has the original service book and the tool kit still had all of it's tools in their original plastic sleeves. it is seriously a dream find, all original and not restored in any way.

and he even bought it cheap from a car yard.............

the yard had no idea of its real value

A bloke not far from here has one. It now has a Holden donk in it (186 from memory ??) but it originally had the ordinary everyday garden type Rover 2 1/4 which he is hanging on to.

simongenet a member of this place has one.

It also has a capstan winch.

I saw Simon at Land Vehicle Spares a few Saturdays ago..he was leaving it there for a service.

G'day All, after reading this thread and by the way it's way too cold outside (fer me anyway) to be playing with cold spanners etc, I had a look through my emporium of magazines that contain anything of interest to Land Rovers,and yes I have the Overlander mag June/July '76 $1.25c with the Game on the front cover, and a two page read of what it is etc, no tech specs though. I also found the first Overlander magazine with a story on the S3 109" Land Rover and on the inside of the mag a 2 page spread on a young (way back then) woman from Holland called Willie/Wilhelmina sic?, bet she doesn't look like that anymore, but from memory they had the nude centerfolds for about a year then pressure from all sides cause it was supposed to represent a family oriented perspective the centerfold was dropped like a hot rock ah well progress. But as I have stated before I'm a computer dummy and could not post anything even if my life depended on it, so if anyone wants to view it email me and I will send it cheers Dennis