Thread: Land Rover 80" changes Info

The new home of my 80" changes pages are

http://www.landrover-register1948-53.org.uk/

this is all part of the Land Rover Series One club forum

http://www.lrsoc.com/forum/

Both clubs have seen the benefit now that a few of the other sites have either gone or are not often updated to having a site which starts off as orgainised as possable.

The Moderator there apporached me and asked to use my old 80" changes pages off the net. I said sure but I wanted to have editing 'rights' so I could improve them myself.

The pages ultimatlely came about as a result of me writing in the first, 'Series 1 page' in the LROCV review and were part of my year 12 'communication project' in 1991 in which I had to communicate a specialist subject to a group. I did this by writing a small booklet for the LROCV Series One group at a club meet BBQ down in Frankston and then improved them for the internet a few years later. The changes first went on the net around 1996.

The 80" changes pages are here

http://www.lrsoc.com/forum/index.php?action=articles;cat=2

I am slowly updating a lot of the text and adding photos of the changes.

Cheers

Michael Bishop

Originally Posted by series1buff

Inspiring work Mike

I found your 80" changes stuff on a university server a few years ago , was it Monash uni. I used that info to check out the two 80" wrecks up at Noojee. One of the wrecks was interesting in that it featured : headlights through grill- narrow front springs - narrow transom - it matched with your car number/change sequence and it was in a very small gap of production with those features.
Mike

Yes its an interesting tale really how it started at the Monash Uni sever. When I joined the LROCV at 14 YO in 1988 and with my early 1950 80" I met Anthony Maeder who was then club librarian and studying at Monash in computer science and was friends with Lloyd Alison who was also an LROCV member and in the computer research area of the Uni. I grew up not far from Monash and my 50 is an early Regent Motor's CKD and Anthony eventually couldn't answer my 'youthfully and super enthusiastic' questions so put me in touch with the LR Register in UK who's secretarty at the time was Peter Galilee. Peter and Ivor Ramsden were really great in trying to answer my questions and very supportive, and looking back they were really great as I was so young as were all the LROCV people. Anyhow aside from all the snail mail questions to them in the UK. I wrote my 80" changes school assignment for the S1 group of the LROCV. I knew of the internet as Dad worked at Latrobe Uni and they could email Anthony for me around 1991/92. Lloyd then when the net moved from Universities to companies put 4 photos of Anthony's vehicles on the internet not long after 93/94 ish and from there alot of people got in touch with him from all over the world. He, like my mum came to Oz from the UK and he grew up in rural England and his father had an 1.6 80" which was not only the work vehicle but family car as well and he has a great love for them having grown up with one. He said he was putting more and more info on the net and wanted something good about the 80" having seen my school assignment, so I tidyied it up and lloyd put it on the net via the monash server. Eventually it became 4wdonline.com which didn't really survive the dotcom crash so I couldn't update it really after 1999. So untill Willerby got in touch this year, who I had happened to meet before he statred the S1 club forum, the 80" changes articles just sat as is. I had seen a few posabilities for it come over time. Willerby is great as he from an 'off the beaten track' area of England where he didn't get much oppertunity to get to club events of the S1 club and became frustrated so created the S1 forum really to find more enthuisats in his area late last year. I was only when the S1 garage died that he really decided to up the game and create something special and he got in touch about that. I hope I havn't gone on too long.