Unsurprising tho' not as refined as a Leica. My father-in-law ran a
couple for years. Every panel could be removed by unbolting it from
the 'skeleton' and could then be bashed back into shape with a hammer
and anvil as it was alumin(i)um. He even made a couple of wings/guards
for them from scratch from sheet metal. Almost every repair could be
made halfway up a mountain with a couple of screwdrivers and a shifter
(crescent wrench) and most parts had easy access for field stripping.
The gearbox was a tad tricky to remove but that was all. Most of the
examples here have been modified to take an old Holden (GM) six
cylinder 179 cu. in. engine - the 202 was too strong for the gearbox.
Not an 'SUV' - nothing sporty about it - but a real 4WD before they
all developed daft plastic wheel arch trim, metallic paintwork, turbo-
diesel engines, chassisless construction, pretty designs and all the
other nonsense that made them desirable as shopping trollies and
domestic school buses. Same goes for old Landcruisers and Patrols.
Even the original Range Rover had that neat trick with the aluminium
body panels.
I once saw a Citroen 2CV run into the back of one. The Rover had a
scratched tow bar. The Deux Chevaux was destroyed to the bulkhead.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19/01/2010, at 7:22 AM, SwissPace wrote:
> I think the reason landrovers are so popular is simple, you can
> personalise them and they are easy to work on so you build a bond that
> is missing in most modern cars, its the same with mechanical cameras
> and
> watches they are imperfect and require mechanical sympathy.
>
> as an aside it is also said that 70% of all Land Rovers produced are
> still in use
>
> IanW
>
>> A couple things come to mind: Leica, LandRover, Linux...
>>
>> AG
>>
>
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