Thread: Stupid Question?

sounds like you been reading one of those car sales dot com sites on the interweb

Yes, that's exactly what I was doing...have they been leading me astray?

I think they are refering too the series 2B & 101 but could be wrong

Adam

Diana and or John may well be able to enlighten me.

LR 109'' 6 cylinder

I'm not the only one wondering.

LandyTown :: Bonneted Control Landies

I always understood "Bonneted Control" to mean basically a 'normal' vehicle - ie. driver behind engine. As opposed to a "Forward Control" which has driver above the engine.

I assumed the term didn't get used much because that's what we usually think of; FC's being a special case.

Geoff is right - "bonnetted control" simply means a normal Landrover as opposed to "forward control"

John

So it is referring to the placement of the engine then?

Originally Posted by reubsrover

So it is referring to the placement of the engine then?

Not really - the engine is in the same place in the forward control and bonneted Landrovers (in fact in the S2a FC the differences are very minimal apart from body parts) - the difference is in the placement of the driver. Hence the reference to "control". In the bonnetted version he/she is behind the engine (except for feet) but in the forward control he/she is alongside/in front of the same engine in the same place in pretty much the same chassis.

John