Pat Callinan credits LR for thr Snowy - almost.

[DiscoMick]

Nice to watch the latest Pat Callinan DVD and see a piece on how 800 Land Rovers opened up the Snowy Mountains scheme from 1950, complete with some good video of Series 1s doing their thing.
Pity they then spoiled it with a little rant about how the first Landcruisers, which didn't arrive untl 1958 were supposedly so good - despite Ian Glover admitting they had a transfer case which disintegrated under load.
Amusing they then immediately showed Alan Gray in the Terrain Tamer 60 series getting bogged in a mudhole which a Pajero and a Patrol cruised through. Not so good after all, hey.
There are plenty of Series 1s around so why didn't they organise an owner to bring one along for this piece?
Its amusing how the Toyota lovers attempt to rewrite history to cover up the role of Land Rovers in doing all the heavy lifting in the Snowy scheme well before the first Toyota even arrived on the scene.

[Reads90]

Before he had a Nissan he had a Defender 130. Which he told me loved and travel all over Aus with but he has the Nissan as he gets paid to drive it.
Was talking to him at the Brisbane 4x4 show.

[uninformed]

did they show the snowy special LRs with massive tall tyres fitted?

[PAT303]

1346 LR's,13 Cruisers worked on the snowy. Pat

[Roverlord off road spares]

What's the old saying, the first vehicle that people of the world's unexplored areas saw was a Land Rover.
The Land Rovers used on the snowy softened up the tracks for the later coming Toyos.

[Sirocco]

What's the old saying, the first vehicle that people of the world's unexplored areas saw was a Land Rover.
The Land Rovers used on the snowy softened up the tracks for the later coming Toyos.

Isn't there a myth somewhere about someone dropping or leaving behind a Land Rover Owners Manual in an African village and 10 years later the names of everyone in the village where vehicle parts!

"Good morning my name is crankshaft" I think it went something like that

G

[PAT303]

National Geographic estimated that the first object from the developed world that 50% of the undeveloped world saw a Land Rover. Pat

[4x4 MORE]

wow! really!

[DiscoKym]

I saw a video somewhere where they say it was more like 80% of the undeveloped world first vehicle they ever saw was a Land Rover.

Pat also gives the new Disco 4 a huge rap in the new magazine. He says BMW and FORD couldn't get land Rover Reliable but TATA has done it..

Snowy just like most history stories. Land Rover open up the world, Toyota follow years later and take all the credit. Except the Simpson Desert and we all know the Patrol did that...

[carjunkieanon]

I've read that they used a few Willy's Jeeps before they brought in the Landrovers….

shhh - don't tell the Jeep owners.