Thread: When the other car ISNT the crumple zone

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

........... showing that the chassis has bent and folded exactly as designed leaving most of the damage infront of the bulkhead and very little distortion inside the compartment.

That was the first thing I noticed ... sorta gives ya some confidence, not that I would wish to be involved in a big bang

Originally Posted by SSmith

so what does ADF do with these things once they are cactus?
i took part in cleaning up the mess of a (80kph) roll over in SA, driver was dazed and confused.... bloody good roll cage. chasis was a gonner but running gear would have been fine

after all the investigating is said and done we greasers get our hands on it and we do paperwork for recovery of parts/disposal. As the One time repair limit for that vehicle is going to be exceeded just doing the inspection on it it will get an automatic beyond repair and go as is to auction (not if i get my way tho).

If you read the whole of my first post I mentioned doing a how to on how to read the stickers (red one in whats left of the windshield if you look close at some of the pics) The intent is so that you all can attend a pickles auction and buy ex mil stuff and have 1/2 a chance at knowing the condition of what your buying and will hopefully be able to spot the "wrecker" stickers that some greasers put on to ensure an item goes to auction for their mates (generators/tyres/winches etc).

Originally Posted by Killer

You would be looking towards offloading a 2.25 oiler in the future then?

Cheers, Mick.

Thats a confirmed maybe kermit is a prototpye for my recovery/workshop vehicle and was intended to be made up of soley the bits of series landrovers I considered to be the best of the bunch.

A perentene looks a lot like a series from a distance,if you squint hard enough anyway.

The diesel in kermit did not get a 100% make it perfect rebuild (it got a what do I need to replace that I cant easily replace later) tho so If I do sell it ti will be for about the $1000 I spent on the bottom end.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

(red one in whats left of the windshield if you look close at some of the pics)

I can only see a green sticker???

Keep us informed - this is an interesting thread. I would love to get my hands on a Perentie. Will complement my 1968 x-army IIA!!!

I agree that even to repair that one would be easy (would need a new chassis). Repairing the injector pump housing wouldn't be completely easy though...

Dave - you don't have a 2.25D injector pump to sell do you?

Surely that PTO winch would be unserviceable and go to pickles with a couple of red stickers.

found out at work today. Its marked to go as IS... Im trying some skulldugery to get it written off into the workshop as piecemeal for some of our competancies...

Due to a paper work cock up its already off the books as a vehicle but the investigation of the prang is holding everything up.....they cant complete it as the vehicle doesnt show up in the system as being a valid vehicle.

Hypothetically it could get stolen and apart from an unclosed investigation it wouldnt be missed....

but every bugger knows where it is and its not something that you could accidentally drop into an ech bag....

but its already being canibalised (although we're not supposed to do that)to keep other rovers running so it will probabley wind up back in the system in the guise of about 9 other rovers....