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  1. 13th December 2014, 09:34 AM #1
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    Land Rover History By National Geographic.

    No doubt many of you have seen this documentary,but for those who have not its a very good film with interesting old footage. There is a scene with a Defender driving up a dam wall,I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on that scene,it looks real.


    [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yiM2vh3UU[/ame]
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  2. 13th December 2014, 10:00 AM #2
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    Yeah that is a good Doc..how ever that Land rover 90 driving up the wall is actually being winched up..look carefully next time you watch the vid
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4x4 MORE View Post
    Yeah that is a good Doc..how ever that Land rover 90 driving up the wall is actually being winched up..look carefully next time you watch the vid
    Yeah I did notice the winch I didn't think it was doing all the work over that distance.
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  4. 13th December 2014, 10:47 AM #4
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    That was interesting, thanks for posting.
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    There is an old post on here about how they filmed that commercial. Apparently for safety reasons the driver stayed out of the car on the way up even though he was quite happy to stay. Great commercial though.
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    used a specially prepared winch (extra capcity drum) and a suite of batteries in the back tray, it was winched the whole way on batteries alone with the engine off as it was determined that the engine would not have lubrication due to the angle exposing the oil pick up and that +4 pot would have been completely immersed in oil from the sump.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cripesamighty View Post
    There is an old post on here about how they filmed that commercial. Apparently for safety reasons the driver stayed out of the car on the way up even though he was quite happy to stay. Great commercial though.
    Through the wonders of youtube I found the full commercial,it's s hell of a lot better than todays car commercials.

    [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KL0rwkj2vQ[/ame]
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    Thanks for that. It's been a looong time since I saw that commercial.
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    Thanks for sharing DM!!!
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    Another oldie but a goodie, When car companies are trying to sell modern 4X4's why don't they make ads like these to show off the cars abilities? Instead of 'I bought a Jeep' that's filmed on sealed roads.

    [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhBvACW4H70[/ame]
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