Originally Posted by
RichardJ
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I’ll look at the body type tomorrow to see what the make up is. No way to tell short vs long though.
hope it’s of interest.
R
Most of the Series 1 are listed as "utility". If this is even remotely correct it would be pretty remarkable that survival was that selective. Certainly nearly all lwb Series 1 were utes, but the swb probably outnumbered them at least 4:1 in this country, and the vast majority of these were rag tops. And nearly all the ones that were not were "panel vans", i.e hardtops. Utes were virtually unheard of.
So my guess is that the majority of the ones described as "utility" are not. I could believe selective survival if the majority were hardtops - these tend to be the preferable body as S/H Landrovers went into recreational use, so not only would these be more likely to survive, but, of course, being Landrovers, it is easy to swap the hardtop onto another one after the older one died.
The numbers for Series 2/3 are more believable, but my guess is a lot of the classifications for all Series Landrovers are wildly inaccurate.
John
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1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
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