Thread: This must be embarrassing for Land Rover

Originally Posted by scarry

The partnership would be interesting, sort of like the blind leading the blind....

My initial thought also Paul, but if the Military content was ex-RAEME he would have the edge. In fact hitting summat with a BF anything sounds very Militaristic. Hammers, Spanners, Rifle Butts, (unloaded of course) Targets etc etc etc.

Not sure a bloke who just ties down loads & turns a steering wheel for hours on end would have the expertise of just where to hit summat.

Originally Posted by scarry

So if he towed it with something like a D4,it would be illegal, as no GVM upgrade available.

Must be one hell of a Shark Cat.

What he really needs is the correct towing vehicle for the job, and that isn't a Tojo or any other 4WD wagon on the market.

Yep pretty big!

Yep logical to have an Effey or Ram but I think the idea is that you have the car luxuries and not driving a small truck day to day.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Yep pretty big!

Yep logical to have an Effey or Ram but I think the idea is that you have the car luxuries and not driving a small truck day to day.

Yer with the max GVM mod,it will be an absolute shocker of a ride without that on the back.

Originally Posted by scarry

Yer with the max GVM mod,it will be an absolute shocker of a ride without that on the back.

Yet back in the day the VL V8 with its massive 164hp was the ultimate tow mule!

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Yet back in the day the VL V8 with its massive 164hp was the ultimate tow mule!

Yes we forget what we had to tow with (let's not mention the brakes)...

Cheers

We do make a big deal of stuff these days.

I've mentioned before my friends I grew up with had a caravan hire service and they would tow a 21' caravan with a FJ Holden Ute.

edited ps. how did this thread about the new Land Rover morph into a towing therad?

Originally Posted by ozscott

Yes we forget what we had to tow with (let's not mention the brakes)...

Cheers

BRAKES! You had Brakes? In my day we looked for the nearest River Red Gum & ran into that. Brakes pffffft Kid's Stuff.

Originally Posted by 4bee

BRAKES! You had Brakes? In my day we looked for the nearest River Gum & ran into that. Brakes pffffft Kids Stuff.

Hand brake didn't work either?

When I was a youngster,on Fraser Island,we had issues with sticks getting caught around, and breaking the brake pipe, on Series vehicles, particularly on the rear.Used to drive around for weeks before the parts could be flown in, that is, dropped in a sack out of a low flying aircraft.
That was only if they didn't have anything else to drop off, if they did, they would land.

Gears and the handbrake were the only form of brakes

Now what was this thread all about?
Ah,Land Rovers,so we are still on topic.