Yes - the person who gave it to me was Hilton!Quote:
Originally Posted by master chief
Do you want the print back?
Diana
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Yes - the person who gave it to me was Hilton!Quote:
Originally Posted by master chief
Do you want the print back?
Diana
No it,s ok Diana,just saved it of the pic you posted.;).might go and look for that chassis number now.
Here are some photos taken at the 1970 Waratah Festival in Sydney.
At the time Ted Briggs had a (then very modern) 2B Forward Control. The 88" Soft Top was owned by Ross Pratt.https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...007/12/104.jpg
This year was the Bicentenary of Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast. The Land Rover Owners Club Sydney Branch had a display where three vehicles were a-framed together and a banner slung between the front of the leading vehicle and the rear of the rear vehicle. I cannot remember the owner of the lead vehicle but the second (a 109 6 cyl with tropical roof) was owned by Dr Charles Warner. Don't know who owned the tailender but recognise a couple of the passengers in the back. The banner said "DISCOVER AUSTRALIA YOURSELF IN A LAND ROVER - JOIN THE LAND ROVER OWNERS CLUB - THE CLUB THAT GETS YOU THERE AND BACK" with a large map of members' trips above the centre vehicle.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...007/12/105.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...007/12/106.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...007/12/107.jpg
If I remember correctly in the next year Roy Sim made up a set of four eccentric wheels to run on a Land Rover keystone cops fashion! I think that may have been the last Waratah Festival - they went arty-farty after that trying to copy Adelaide.
After returning from the 1971 Centralian trip organised by the LROCV and seeing Vic Jaegar's FC mobile home (fitted with 6 cyl Weslake head engine and later with a Range Rover engine and transmission) I tried to buy Mackellar County Council's 2B when it was retired to do something similar. It had a pantech body with electrical testing equipment inside.
Bob
Father in Law has A 2B Diesel (from mine in PNG)in his shed, North Arm QLD been trying to get it for the last 18 years.
Know of one, a 2A in a front yard in Amphitheatre VIC last year.
One 2B in Alice Springs About 5 yr ago.
Bit late noting this thread - it started while I was away over Christmas.
A couple of years ago Fred Smith in Melbourne had an ex-Malaysian military 2b in his shed for a customer, and I have an idea there was another FC there as well.
Twenty years ago I regularly saw a 2a FC in Collingwood driving in from Kew.
In the sixties I remember seeing a FC broken down by the roadside somewhere in the Alice Springs region - two weeks later it had been stripped to a bare chassis.
John
I have a CKD S11 A FC and it came into Aus with 3 others in the same container
and were assembled in Sydney at a Coach Builders where they had flat trays fitted. Factory 2.6 petrol 6cyl. :)
I see one regularly on the Northern Beaches in white with T#%#^a axles and a rear tray that looks like a plumbers but too tidy and organised. I used to see it driving often but lately just sitting in the driveway.
Jeff
:rocket:
John, I have the one that Fred Smith was working on. It is the one that was Vic Jaeger's mobile home - his 'pantec'.
Julie
JulieQuote:
Originally Posted by tardis
That's great to hear it still exists - I remember being at one of the LROCV/LROCS/LROCN/LRCACT gymkana's at Gundagai when the film of that vehicle was shown.
Seem to remember it is an S2B with the first conversion to Rover P5 3 litre and subsequently to a Range Rover V8/LT95.
Can I ask about it's current configuration and for some pics? https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/09/1008.jpg
Diana
Diana - I don't get to log on too often and not too familiar with how to get around this site! But would be happy to get a picture to you and am keen to talk to you about it ... it now has a diesel engine in it but the dear old camper part is still pretty much as Vic made it and it is still on the road.
Julie