Thread: Land Rover, which one is best?- Your Opinion?

Ive given up trying to work out which state/territory Im from ... All of em....


Its great when it comes to parties I get to play chaotic nuetral and attack everyone....

Born a sandgroper, raised by a PMG liney and his wife....

My playpen till my sister was old enough to goto school was the back of a Series type rover or a 6x6 inter butterbox...

I have probabley covered more of australia that I dont remember than I have that I do.

Its gunna sound sappy but

Home is somewhere West of Sydney, East of Perth, North of Hobart and South of Darwin.

The early Rangies were so far ahead of their time - disc brakes, coil suspension, full-time 4x4, alloy panels and that beautiful sounding V8. Ah sends chills down my spine...

Originally Posted by DaveG

The early Rangies were so far ahead of their time - disc brakes, coil suspension, full-time 4x4, alloy panels and that beautiful sounding V8. Ah sends chills down my spine...

Admittedly they put it all together in 1970 BUT -

1948 Landrover full time 4x4 (didn't know that, did you?), aluminium panels

1955 Citroen - disc brakes (Jaguar slightly earlier)

Not sure when coils entered the picture, but certainly Mercedes had four wheel coils by the late forties, and several cars had front coils in the thirties.

V8, not sure when the first one was, but Rolls Royce had one in about 1904, and Ford was mass producing them by 1932.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

1948 Landrover full time 4x4 (didn't know that, did you?),

Yeah I did actually.

Ok then JD - far ahead of their time..... for a 4wd

Cadillac was mass producing V8's in the teens, so were Scripps-Booth, and others. The RR full time 4WD was no technological breakthrough, simply being what tandem drive trucks used. Jeep had Quadra-trac with its limited slip centre diff. GM and Chrysler had full-time 4wd in Blazers and Dodges. Dodge had a viscous limited slip transfer case. Regulation, the "Corporate Average Fule Economy" regulations, killed these advanced systems. Disc brakes were in aircraft in WW2, Indianapolis cars, Champ cars, sprint cars and midgets had Halibrand discs in the late forties/ early fifties.

Go Brian!

Curtis Jenny was a V8 biplane, created prior to WW1.

Open valves (as in no rocker covers, if I remember correctly...)

NOW: Look up "Spyker" (from The Nederlands).

The first? 4wd built about 1902.

(Eat your heart out Audi Quattro).

A truly amazing vehicle. and would be more than 'good enough' today!

Cheers, GQ

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Go Brian!

Curtis Jenny was a V8 biplane, created prior to WW1.

Open valves (as in no rocker covers, if I remember correctly...)

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"In June 1917 the American Curtiss Company completed the design of its JN-4D. This model replaced the Deperdussin controls with the stick controls, eliminated the ailerons on the lower wings, and had rounded lower wing tips. The aircraft was powered by the 90 hp Curtiss OX-5 engine. Some 2664 JN-4D's were built. This is the version that is referred to when reference is made to the "Jenny"".

Hardly prior to WW1! (unless you think the war didn't start until the US got involved)

The OX-5 engine was, as you say, a V8 with open valve gear, produced from 1913 to 1918. Water cooled with individual cylinders, made from steel with brazed on monel water jackets. Even by 1914 it was obsolete, heavy, short lived and unreliable compared to European engines - but it was the best the US had when it started mass training in 1917 (all US combat aircraft in WW1 were British or European designed, and mostly built, although by 1918 many were fitted with US designed and built Liberty engines, the first really mass produced aeroplane engine).
John

Meanwhile back on topic... the best Land Rover is.... and why.