Landrover can do's

[nztimb]

Hill End Station - Lake Wānaka New Zealand

 

[spike.t]

Iceland and Colorado

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Now I know you are a masochist....

 

[spike.t]

Offroading is basically illegal here in Norway, however the roads are really bad..

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Your idea and my idea of really bad roads are...how shall we say.....ever so slightly poles apart...

 

[Nyati]

Spain, not mine.

 

[bowjijohn]

Off road is ......

a tarmac (black top) road built by the Chinese in Africa

They do the best pot holes in the world

Other than perhaps DRC in the rains, where potholes are big enough to swallow a car

 

[WAB]

Off road is ......

a tarmac (black top) road built by the Chinese in Africa

They do the best pot holes in the world

Other than perhaps DRC in the rains, where potholes are big enough to swallow a car

The haul road from Fairbanks to Dead Horse was crazy bad before we hauled 60,000 barrels of asphalt up it. I’ve seen 3/4 tons with broken axles on the road. Coming back from a hunt one year a bridge washed out steaming all of us on the North side. We set up camp and cooked caribou while they rebuilt it.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

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Just saying ..................

@Red Leg
Is that land rovers new design.
Now that's the pick of the old toyos but it still ain't a NISSAN.
NISSAN OR NOTHING.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

That Sir is an ideal off road vehicle

Ugly as sin - but just works(ed)

Forward a year or two and my second exped vehicle was ...

The Toyota 98 Troupy - a vehicle in a different league to the landrover stuff

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@bowjijohn
Certainly is a different league to a landy but only just. Toss up the troops is still agricultural but bigger and a slightly better motor. Both slugs on the highway 4 cylinder landy or 1HZ toyo diesel still not as good or reliable as a Nissan TD27 or TD42.. Easy 1,000,000 km motors.
Still not a Nissan.
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Get an old one and fix it up. Spares are readily available, and it is part of the fun. You don't need to aim for originality, it gets too hard and can slow things down a lot. The real fun is in using the car.

@Kevin Peacocke
Spares have to be readily available, they keep breaking down. HA HA HA HA.
Try and get a spare rim or tyre for one in outback Australia. You have more chance of buying 1,000 primer for 20 dollars.
Bob

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

@Kevin Peacocke
Spares have to be readily available, they keep breaking down. HA HA HA HA.
Try and get a spare rim or tyre for one in outback Australia. You have more chance of buying 1,000 primer for 20 dollars.
Bob

Here there are plenty of spares.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Here there are plenty of spares.

@Kevin Peacocke
That's because you need them with a land Rover.
You can't even panel beat a dented panel because they are aluminium.
Bend = replace. The body may not rust just everything else.
Bob

 

[M Whitley]

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Just saying ..................

I brought one back from Namibia

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

I brought one back from Namibia
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@M Whitley
That is called a land Rover recovery vehicle.
Bob

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

@Kevin Peacocke
That's because you need them with a land Rover.
You can't even panel beat a dented panel because they are aluminium.
Bend = replace. The body may not rust just everything else.
Bob

Bob, one buys the ladies jewelery and dresses.

 

[WAB]

I brought one back from Namibia
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Wow, how did you pull that off?

 

[roverandbrew]

I brought one back from Namibia
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That is a beautiful Cruiser!

 

[M Whitley]

Wow, how did you pull that off?

If the vehicle is 25 years or older no import restrictions! I had new safari rack, seats, and seat covers done in Windhoek and stored it at a friends house until the shipper got it. Took a year to get her home but it’s one of a kind!

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Bob, one buys the ladies jewelery and dresses.

@Kevin Peacocke
That is true but one doesn't wear them. A land Rover is the pigs ear of beauty not the silk purse. No matter how you dress it it's still a pigs ear.
If you put lipstick on a pig it's still a pig.
Bob

 

[Safari Dave]

I'll give free tows to Series III Rovers and earlier models in north Georgia.

I'd waste too much time on anything later.....

(not my Cruiser, BTW, but I have two others)


Luv you Kevin, but my two Landys (IIa and III) stayed broken almost all of the time!

 

[homeless]

I've owned 5 land rovers
the first Discovery td5
then 2 defender 90 300 TDI
one RR tdv8 L322
anda now i have a freelander Si4 241hp with LPG