Thread: Army vehicle disposal

Originally Posted by circlework

Anybody got any idea when the next Landy auction is scheduled?

I'm obviously passing on this one!

Yeah, I know ... another tight RRRs.

I don't think you're being a tightwad at all, I think they're going well over the top. Obviously that's just my humble opinion about a minimum 23 year old, truck engined 110, painted in cabbage green.

Originally Posted by Davo

What idiot running a rental business would want a hard-to-drive, unairconditioned two-seater when they could run their business with normal four-wheel-drives? I'm mystified by all of this.

Have you seen all the "Wicked" vans? Not exactly the pinnacle of automotive comfort. Now imagine a heap of gaudily hand painted ex-army land rovers being driven around Australia by backpackers!

Originally Posted by minibloodhound

Now imagine a heap of gaudily hand painted ex-army land rovers rolling around Australia by backpackers!

Fixed it in blue for you.

Originally Posted by minibloodhound

Have you seen all the "Wicked" vans? Not exactly the pinnacle of automotive comfort. Now imagine a heap of gaudily hand painted ex-army land rovers being driven around Australia by backpackers!

2 problems with that notion, one is that there aren't many hard tops and most importantly the wicked mob* wouldn't spend $10K on a vehicle let alone the prices the 110s are heading.


* Wicked campers used to have their Sydney head office, just down the road from here.

As far as I know their head office and first outlet is in East Brisbane.

When Bob Baird and Jack Heap started Four Wheel Drive Hire Service in Brisbane they only had Land Rovers. Their rationale was that most users took them on the beach and steel bodied vehicles looked like lacework after 12-18 months of hard service. Leyland Truck and Bus Brisbane sold them as many as twenty in one delivery. They also bought all the Land Rover submarines from the 1974 flood when the Rocklea building was totally submerged except for the tip of the roof.

Yes, we have every rental vehicle known to man up here, soon or later. Joints like Wicked obviously buy old cars with a few kms left in them and I think the paint jobs are an ingenious way to cover the rust and tart them up, make them look cool to dopey kids, and get lots of advertising. (I seem to remember they had a yard raided somewhere and just about every car was put off the road.)

Now that ambulance looks nice at $30,000 . . .

Very nice ambulance, only 10 grand over priced... as are just about every other single one. No land rovers any where in the world, would fetch this kind of money, its Australia gone mad again.

However if you have the money, and want one then you will pay the highest price. What will hurt is when more of these come out and the price drops, I do think the hard tops and specialist variants will hold there value more. Soon have a lot more new landy owners joining this forum.... would be Interesting to hear why they thought the price they paid was justified...

The fact is that these vehicles are not quite the "twenty five year old vehicles" that is being pushed by some contributors here - they were strictly serviced, some have low usage, some even completely rebuilt (less likely to be disposed of immediately I imagine).

I think the prices so far are reasonable. Let's see when the auction closes. It's what somebody is prepared to pay that matters. Why should buyers almost have to justify what they paid? They won't hang around if there is too much bagging.

The 6x6 ambulances would have probably cost over $200,000 (equivalent) when they were built so at $30,000 so far it's a bargain - presumably not much restoring to do on that one.

Bob