Thread: As they were... A trip down memory lane.

Scan the piccys into the puter and load em up!!!

I hear ya matey, 18years old and 3 cars all more than 30 years old!!!
Can't stand technomolology....

Saying that my landrover hates me with a passion, i sweare she didn't want to be put back on the road in fear of what was planned for her

Will try and find a couple of piccys of dad and the 60series on Fraser Island in the 80s - I still have the maps and the Fraser Island permit from 1986

I would if I could Jack!

They are at my dads house... which is in Perth.

I'll just have to live vicariously through everyone else until I can get my hands on them!

mmmm I have found some great ones of mum & dad's honeymoon on Straddie with the 60series... might ask first before I put them on the web haha

My first experience involving a Series Land Rover took place whilst I was still in school.
A mate of mine's father had a property down in the Riverina and had just bought this nice new S1 4x4 sporty little rag top. One afternoon the mate 'borrowed' Dads new toy and decided to take all of us youngsters on a run around the town. It probably would have been quite an uneventful little jaunt had he not decided to do circles around the centre street light pole whilst I held on to the pole from the back seat and the local copper came around the corner at the same time.
A bit of a lecture about the dangers of so called "hooning" (way back in those days too) and he sent us on our way. No mention about licenses (most of us held farming permits which allowed us to drive a truck loaded with wheat in bags from the property to the mill and return) so all was sweet.
Two days later I came home to be greeted by the sight of the local Police car parked in front of our house and the bobby (really quite a nice bloke) speaking quite earnestly to my father. Not too long after that event was when the backside fell out of my little world for about the next two weeks! Luckily my father wasn't a violent tempered man, but needless to say I didn't have much to do with Land Rovers for quite a while after that event.

Probably my next significant exposure to the beasts was on an O/S holiday that I took when I was about 22 or so.
I am not too sure what I was looking so worried about when the following shot was taken, probably wondering how long it was to knock off time or some such thing.
This shot may explain why I collect what I do.


Regards
Glen

Originally Posted by zulu Delta 534

My first experience involving a Series
This shot may explain why I collect what I do.


Regards
Glen

You collect moustaches?

Gunbuggies Mark!

PS - my Dad's old truck was exactly the same as yours.

Originally Posted by longing4alandy

You collect moustaches?

Gigglehats?

Great shot Glen
Just got a heap of Dads Vietnam slides out last night. Will post them in REMLR soon, brilliant stuff. A few GS, the odd Chinook carrying, Huey or 2,etc

I dont have any photos because cameras are banned Tindal air base. it was the late 80's may have even been K89 anyhoo, a chinnok was bringing in a defender into a spot that is now an air strip, back then it was demountables and surounded by trees, the pilot must have been in a hurry because he smashed the defender through a bloody great tree before landing it. smashed the hell out of it. I watched it from probably no more than 20m away truely amazing stuff to have seen.