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Thread: Re-creating the Centre Steer Prototype

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    Re-creating the Centre Steer Prototype

    These blokes have done a good looking job.
    47 Centre Steer Prototype | High Meadow Farm Rovers

    They have done other nice stuff as well.
    Series 1 | High Meadow Farm Rovers
    High Meadow Farm Rovers

    Keith

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    Keith,
    I thought that was going to be your next project when I first read the title.
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    Ha Ha. Nah, I think I am done now.
    Besides I would have to find a jeep chassis

    They did a nice job of the panel work though. be hard to match.

    Keith

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    So are there more now than Land Rover actually produced ?

    The Dunsfold Collection :: The Dunsfold Collection

    Is this the one now in the Dunsfold collection https://4x4channel.tv/centre-steer-t...of-land-rover/


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    Looked like lovely workmanship to me.
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    The countryside is a bit picturesque to be driving around in there. I'm guessing very different to the beach property in England where they did the original testing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 123rover50 View Post
    Ha Ha. Nah, I think I am done now.
    Besides I would have to find a jeep chassis

    They did a nice job of the panel work though. be hard to match.

    Keith
    I was offered a Heep once but said if got it I would only turn it into a centre steer, so knocked it back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gromit View Post
    So are there more now than Land Rover actually produced ?

    The Dunsfold Collection :: The Dunsfold Collection

    Is this the one now in the Dunsfold collection https://4x4channel.tv/centre-steer-t...of-land-rover/


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    According to the blurb on the Dunsfold page;

    It was built by ‘Paintman Bill’ on a very limited budget in a lean-to shed and is a fine reproduction.

    Don.

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    The original centre steer was a lash up to experiment with the concept. I suspect it was seen by those involved as no more than an exercise to convince the board that the Land Rover was something worth trying. There was certainly no concept of its being something historic. Even the actual prototypes and pre-production vehicles were, I think, rebuilt to more or less production standard and sold to the public. Remember, Britain (and the rest of the world) was still in post-war austerity.
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    Interesting that the replica has used a Ford jeep chassis with a Willy’s jeep front cross member added.
    Does anyone know if the original prototype used a Ford or Willy’s chassis?

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