Thread: GAME

Originally Posted by Timj

Hi Garry,

The bullbar looks the same in those e-bay photos. Mine has been painted a bronzy sort of colour at some stage but they were silver standard. I've got the original owners handbook with mine and according to that the original tyres were 10L x 15 T/L Desert Dog P.C.V.

I will take some photos of the bumperettes tomorrow if I can.

Actually looking at Crispy's again I have not seen those windows in the roof on any of the Games I have seen photos of so I am not sure about that one. The last photo on the e-bay ad for yours has the plate in front of the radiator that says it is a game. I have a copy of the original sales brochure for them as well and that shows a tropical roof but no windows. Mine doesn't have the tropical roof but that was not on all of them I believe.

I have been painting the wheels on mine and getting it all tuned up and ready for a club 4wd trip on Sunday so it should be interesting to see how it goes. It will be very different from the D3 I think .

TimJ.

I like the mags the fat tyres on it make them look good, gives them a solid footprint on the ground, they look like a tough little unit. Crispy's was on ebay a month ago completly galvanised everything on it. Someone went to a lot of trouble building it. The tropical roof with windows, interesting to see if it was an optional.

Timj are the wheels a particular colour white??

I wonder how many are around on the forum, hopefully a few more appear on the thread, there can not be many of them as from what I understand they lasted from 1976-78. Would put them in the same class as stage 1's as they only last a short time also. Proberly even less as GAMEs seem to have been specially ordered type of vehicle.
Kindest regards
Garry

Welcome to the Game club Garry, It good to see the Games are coming out of the woodwork, the Game only came out in yellow (yellow devil to be precise) pretty sure they never had the alpine windows, some had the tropical roof, some didn't. As tim stated they should have Game printed on the compliance plate, and a build no: on the ID plate in front of the gearlevers.
Looking foward to seeing Tims Game on Sunday, mine should make it too, I just got the gearbox back in last night, but still have some work to do.
There was a thread on hear a few months ago called were all Games the same spec. Have a look at that, I posted a couple of photos on that, as well as a scanned sales brochure.

Cheers, Mick.

I looked at this vehicle. Quite rusty, but quite original with overdrive etc. A lot of work required but probably worth it. Good Luck.

Originally Posted by ade30946x6

I looked at this vehicle. Quite rusty, but quite original with overdrive etc. A lot of work required but probably worth it. Good Luck.

Yes I tossed up about the rust issue too but I already have very good doors and tops and rust free fire wall. The panels looked to be pretty honest and I could not spot any body filler so thats was a plus and as you say it all seems quite original so figure that a good place to start from.

As it had a reco gearbox and newish clutch, pressure plate and radiator I just figured the chassis was the only real issue to resolve. As you would have noticed the galvinised rear cross member looks like they have trowled a layer of salastic over the seams so that is a bit of a unknow, for sure. The front hangers, well I have seen better but they are certainly not to bad and I will clean them back to bare metal to access them for rust and repair what ever is required. Anyway hopfully by Sunday I will have it sorted as what it requires to road worthy.
Garry

Originally Posted by Killer

Welcome to the Game club Garry, It good to see the Games are coming out of the woodwork, the Game only came out in yellow (yellow devil to be precise) pretty sure they never had the alpine windows, some had the tropical roof, some didn't. As tim stated they should have Game printed on the compliance plate, and a build no: on the ID plate in front of the gearlevers.
Looking foward to seeing Tims Game on Sunday, mine should make it too, I just got the gearbox back in last night, but still have some work to do.
There was a thread on hear a few months ago called were all Games the same spec. Have a look at that, I posted a couple of photos on that, as well as a scanned sales brochure.

Cheers, Mick.

Hi Mick
Thankyou will look up the thread, I have like these little vehicles for some time the compliance plate has land rover game on it so that is a genuine item not sure about the build number though do you have an image about that you could put up on the thread. Is it the black and silver plate that has L R 88" ...
on it or another one.

I have not seen this pate before but it looked good so heres aphoto of it.
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Cheers Garry

Good reading guys, Well mine does say Game on the compliance plate. The plus side for me is that there is nothing to rust,even the wheels are galvanised. I have done the front wheel bearings,oil seals, sump gasket,rocker cover gasket,taken off the power steering and put on a new drag link with ball joints.Oh,and the brake cylinders. Put a plug in the wading plug as there was some oil coming out of that, ( rear main?) I will monitor that one. Changed all the oil and filters and all looks good.All going well,should be on the road 2 or 3 weeks. Did the shims in the spindle things as well, plus new exhaust.


Regards Chris.............

Yeah, I feel it may have lived most of its life in quite a moist "farm" environment, but I felt the body was very straight save for the firewall and rust areas. It seemed to sit very low as they do, but I thought more so. At the end of the day I would say it is a good buy if you have got the time to put into it and if your favourite colour is the bright yellow, then that is a deciding factor. I was impressed with its originality, though I do not proclaim to be an expert on them. It just seemed to look "right" and not messed about with at all apart from some "farm" type and agricultural like repairs. It is cheap considering the price they are paying for overdrives on Epay. You have made a good choice and I feel it ought to be well worth investing time and money into based on rarity alone.

Originally Posted by ade30946x6

Yeah, I feel it may have lived most of its life in quite a moist "farm" environment, but I felt the body was very straight save for the firewall and rust areas. It seemed to sit very low as they do, but I thought more so. At the end of the day I would say it is a good buy if you have got the time to put into it and if your favourite colour is the bright yellow, then that is a deciding factor. I was impressed with its originality, though I do not proclaim to be an expert on them. It just seemed to look "right" and not messed about with at all apart from some "farm" type and agricultural like repairs. It is cheap considering the price they are paying for overdrives on Epay. You have made a good choice and I feel it ought to be well worth investing time and money into based on rarity alone.

Yes, Rod the previous owner said it live in Apollo Bay when he bought it. It does sit low the rear springs have collasped they look as though a couple of leafs maybe broken and the spring lay almost flat. The front springs are not to bad. Yes I thought the same about the car it just looked original and not tampered with the fire wall is still the bigggest issue as you have to pull so much off to remove it and put it back together. I'll load some more photo tomorrow.
Garry