Thread: My first brush with a Land Rover.

Bit of a coincidence that. The Cook plus me and kids were out and about down at Leongatha many moons ago (nearly 50 years actually) when we got bogged in the company car I had. Toyota Corona from memory. Then along came an old bloke in a series Landie, hooked a strap around the suspension and gently pulled us to safety.
We were very thankful and offered some beer money but he was just happy to have been able to help us out. That really was our first experience of any 4 wheel drive and their capabilities.
Nice one mate, thanks to you and your Landie.
AlanH.

i won't be throwing up the pic,but my first brush with LR, was in some sort of baby cradle on the way home from the Hospital,on the front seat of the S1 in my sig.

i am surprised i wasn't just shoved in the back somewhere.

Originally Posted by scarry

i won't be throwing up the pic,but my first brush with LR, was in some sort of baby cradle on the way home from the Hospital,on the front seat of the S1 in my sig.

i am surprised i wasn't just shoved in the back somewhere.

I'm surprised you were taken home!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I'm surprised you were taken home!

Who says he was?

My high school geography teacher had a LR and would go exploring in the mountains during his holidays, and would come back with stories like a broken fuel pump and having to drive home with a jerry can of petrol feeding the carby on the roof rack, etc.

I would have been around 9 or 10 when my family stayed at Bruny Island (Tas) for a holiday. We visited the Lighthouse at the Sthn end and must have got there late arvo.

It was manned at that time and the lighthouse keeper invited Dad, mum, my sister and I up to the lighthouse and watch him light the lamp.

We were bundled in to what I realised many years later when I became an LR fanatic was a SWB Series 2 and he drove us up a rough road/track from his house about 1/2 klm from the lighthouse.

I was a bit concerned and felt as if I was about 20ft up in the air as I'd never been in such a "high" vehicle before! To make matters worse, the track went quite close to the cliff face.....

Anyway, we climbed the stairs and the 'keeper let me light the kero lamp, which I realised much later, was quite a big deal.

We got back down the hill safely and I lived to tell the tale.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

My high school geography teacher had a LR and would go exploring in the mountains during his holidays, and would come back with stories like a broken fuel pump and having to drive home with a jerry can of petrol feeding the carby on the roof rack, etc.

Woulda been a Series 1 with the ever reliable Lucas electric fuel pump....

Originally Posted by Discodicky

Woulda been a Series 1 with the ever reliable Lucas electric fuel pump....

Hmm,yes and the ticking noise we will never forget,and my father swearing and cursing when one failed.

We have just rebuilt two lately out of a box full of old ones,with some parts being refurbished.

They are the strangest pump i have ever seen,but i havent seen many old electric auto fuel pumps.