I spent 15 years in the British Army as a Radio Telegraphist and then Radio Technician during the era when these were being phased out and the diesel 110s were replacing them. That vehicle looks to have originally been a 3/4T SIII FFR (Fitted For Radio). SIII FFRs had quite some differences from GS (General Service) vehicles: 1. 24V electrics, ignition system all shielded. Two batteries in a metal box where the middle front seat is in that one. HUGE 24V alternator. 2. 2 or 4x 100Ah radio batteries behind the centre bulkhead in a large steel box. Generated so much current that it was possible to weld a spanner/wrench if not careful when tightening the lugs. 3. Above the radio battery box, a radio table for mounting the radios on, which ran pretty much the width of the vehicle. 4. Antenna mounting arms for HF antennas on the sides of the vehicle (you can see the mounting holes for these) 5. Antenna Tuner Unit mounting points on the front wings/fenders, which you can see. 6. "Dexion" racking above the centre bulkhead for fitting radio and power cables to. 7. Double stack front bumpers, as seen 8. Stub rear bumpers, as seen 9. Mounting points for pick and shovel on the tailgate 10. Spare wheel mount on bonnet/hood (the commenter below who says it wasn't originally mounted there below for visibility reasons is wrong). Yes it was, and yes, the visibility over it was poor. 11. Dual fuel tanks with changeover lever (great fun to put it in the center neutral position as a prank) 12. Manual throttle to charge the batteries when static. 13. Side bonnet/hood catches. 14. Centre-dash mounted light switch with convoy mode Many of these features have been removed from that example, but looks like it was originally an FFR, given what's still on it. No reason to have the antenna mount points if it wasn't FFR, and hand throttles were rare on other vehicles. Comments below regarding "why left hand drive" - it's because when that vehicle was new, the majority of the British Army was stationed in Germany, and nearly all vehicles there were ordered as left hand drive. Also a comment about it being possibly military police because of the rifle clips - no, they were standard on FFRs, but I've seen them on some GS vehicles. It could have been an MP vehicle, but just as likely it was issued to any other unit that had a need for vehicles with radios fitted (ie nearly all units). Another comment regarding the rope round the bumper being for "street cred" - the Complete Equipment Schedule contained a steel tow rope, and we often wrapped them round the bumper.
@@markashmeade5854 Really.... Well, may be we met - remember a fair haired guy sitting in a tiny glass hut on the POL point, or in his old red Mercedes near by? Yep, thats me.... I've done 34 years btw., but not all at the POL point, until they closed shop in 2015
I bought my Series 3 88" or SWB new in 1975 as a kid of 23....was quite expensive for me.....but I saved up hard to afford it. I am now 71 and still own it....don't get used a lot now but its still fully ready for the road. I am the only person that ever worked on it in its life time. I will never part with it. Nick from the UK.
As a "true car guy" or gear head. . You have to love Jay. A national treasure. Hes livin the dream he worked hard for. I always laugh as he says something I was thinking or asks a question I was wondering. Thanks Jay!!!
@@gteefxr3094 a term of endearment for someone special who has provided people with good. For one thing... Jay was the last talk show host worth a dime. Always funny or clever. Never smarmy and political. Then the Jays Garage productions over the years have always been fun for people that understand as well as novice car people. An honest answer assuming that was an honest question.
That was fun, gentlemen! I think the best part of this show is that you never know what's gonna come through the Garage! Thanks, Alex, Jay, and the crew for another great episode!✌️❤🙂🇨🇦
As a Landrover guy for over 20 yrs, this is great to see! I'm still driving my 04' Disco TD5 and even though it's slow compared to modern trucks, it still is a pleasure to drive. Thanks for this video Jay and Alex. Gregg 🙂
Yep, same here, I had a Series 2A 88 with a truck cab and an open back with a canvas hood. It even had a fairey overdrive and a capstan winch which was better than any modern winch. I had it for 14 years and it worked in my business everyday. I ended up selling it to a student from Kuwait for more than I paid for it, but I wish I still had it.
When I was in the UK arm forces These were the backbone of whatever force you were in… They are absolutely incredible and never really let you down. A few of the trim bits fell off, but the main bits never let you down.
Owning a Landrover makes you into a better mechanic. For an off road vehicle, you need something that is simple. Here in Australia, if something fails on a modern electronically controlled vehicle, you could be stuck a thousand km's from any help with no way to fix it yourself. Today's off roaders are too smart for their own good.
My father used to sell these back in the 60's and he would get to borrow one on the weekend and take the family into the mountains. Good times, and I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Land Rovers since.
I like this kind of content, don't get me wrong I like all the fast, high tech, luxury cars too but its nice to see something with dirt, dust and with a patina to it and in this case history.
My late father used to make those on the night shift in Solihull, yes that famous night shift from the Sun. He was the safety officer for the plant and used to get loan vehicle for others but never himself!! He used to do paint rectification in the paint shop, and press shop sent him deaf! He restored a late model series 2A, in blue , white steels, slightly larger tyres, and light blue canvas top. It was a great vehicle, miss the bouncing leaf springs.
I’m doing the weekend night shift at the moment. It’s a great shift to do as you get nearly a week off. It’s great to look forward to Monday mornings😂😂😂
@@MrBlaugeist did you Anthony 'tony' Perry by chance. The only kind thing he did, was when l was 8 or 9 l drew without a compass for the wheels. A side view drawing of a Range Rover and took into the design office and got some praise from the designers.
As a 15year old I learnt to drive on a Series 1 and the test instructor made me do a rather steep hill start three times. My Father used to take us to Landrover trials and took us on a family outing to central Turkey in the 60's - that was some adventure. Never forget taking the roof off with six bolts, the heater's sole functionality to cook the passenger's shin, wandering steering which became perfectly normal and those insane yet strangely hypnotic windscreen wipers. Second gear low range was usually the most needed and it would creep down the steepest slopes that way and those narrow tires so effective in wet grass and mud.
In WWII, P-40s sent to North Africa were painted in a sand colour, but the paint faded to pink. (Sue Johnson, of the Johnson & Johnson fortune) had one as a warbird in that colour.) Congratulations on the audio quality from what must have been a challenging environment.
Don't you just love when you have an owner that knows absolutely nothing at all and just makes it up as goes along,with just the odd bit correct by luck
In desert storm we had a small off road test against an American Humvee and the LR destroyed it. I drove these in Germany, England, Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Canada, Northern Ireland. They will always hold a special place in my heart, even with all of the issues. These things would take a real beating.
I heard the one on how British Army soldiers once rescued a CH47 stuck in the desert with an LR -- btw, the British have thousands upon thousands of stories about how their systems are better than anything the Americans have, and their soldiers/sailors/marines/aircrew/Police are better than the Americans. It is the worst case of penis-envy ever.
Did you see the New Zealand UN LRs in Bosnia? They were converted in New Zealand from the V8 petrol motorl to the Nissan LD28...straight 6 diesel engine. Best thing since sliced bread as far as reliability and fuel mileage were concerned.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Agree… we were at Eagle Base. Worked on LRs and Toyota LCs. LRs broke and broke hard. Couldn’t keep them running. LCs were driven to the ground. The Toyota’s ran and kept running. No one wanted to use the LRs. Everyone wanted to sign out the LCs.
Yes, the drive can be transferred to the front wheels. I once had a broken 1/2-shaft on a rear wheel. After transferring the drive to the front, I drove 120 miles to a dealership, bought the new part and in less than 10 minutes, fitted it (a spanner and some grease) and was on my way; a great vehicle, now replaced by a "Chelsea Tractor" :(
I had a '72 Series IIA (bought in '74 and sold a few years later) that was great to work on, like the owner said- easy to find and fix problems. Changed from a generator to an alternator and found many parts at a place in Califon, N.J. Sadly the door mounts and the rear frame completely rusted out in a few years of New England winters. Trans was a 1-2 gear change crashbox but I taught my GF, and now wife, how to drive a manual on it.
several of my friends have series 2s One of them drove his from Mechanicsburg pa to the Yukon Territory and back. They never exceeded 45 MPH Its decked out to camp in. Amazing vehicles. Im a Willys guy I have restored 24 of them and see no reason to have a Rover as they are much larger than any Willys. Great history on yours. I learned a lot! Tkx
I am in UK and also own a Series 3 ex-MOD FFR. Your would have originally had large aerial boxes on the front wings. All FFRs were 24V electrics with 2 12V batteries under where your middle seat is.Great cars. Steering would be lighter with the original 7.50x16 tyres though your tyres look great. The rear differential cover is painted white so that when you select Convoy Mode all the lights go out (even instrument lights go out!) except for a small light on the chassis that points at the diff housing. Each Land Rover in the convoy then follows using the glow from the white diffs. The front vehicle of course would not have convoy mode switched on.
In 1999 bought an ex-UK military LR 109 RHD with 12,000miles (yes 12) for £400 or around $550 it drove so well and solid. My other 88” which had 250k miles on it was a shaking and rattling. Lost count how many LR (upto 2001 MY) I’ve owned, reliability really does come down to maintenance and the experience of the mechanic doing the servicing and repairs.
Due to its ability to go most places, there was a point in the 20th century where the first car a lot of people in the world ever saw was a Land Rover.
Saw one of these a full years ago in Victoria, BC. I was a special order for Gaddafi of Libya but never delivered. This Canadian in Europe managed to pick it up brand new. It was awesome. He had some sort of problem importing it due to the missing paperwork so he had it in storage for a few years before he managed to get it into British Columbia and get it plated.
I love Land Rovers, it was my father's job in Rome Italy selling Land Rover spares from 1968 until 1993, we had quite a few even 1948 Series One HUE222.
Fantastic, I have a very similar ex-military series 3 pickup and absolutely love it. So much fun to drive and puts a smile on your face wherever you go. Also draws more attention than any modern hypercar.
1970/71..I'm a senior in high school and my plan was to get a Land Rover like this one and drive from Colorado to Florida. I'd never been to Florida and thought it would be quite an adventure. Well that never happened. Alex mentioned something about the car being in Berlin at one time. I was stationed in Berlin in the mid 70s and had a few British Army buddies and saw a few of the Rovers patrolling along the wall. We did the same in our Mutt Jeeps. I can't remember what the French forces drove.
The Norwegian military sold off a bunch of these a couple of decades ago, they were 1970s models with around 30-40k KM on the odometer. They were professionally maintained and in good condition, they sold for around $4000 a piece. I wish I could get one at the time, but I was young and didn't have the money.
Drove these lots in the Falklands in '82-'83. They would go anywhere, which was just as well because the crushed rock tracks the Engineers laid quickly got rougher than the general terrain, but with sharper rocks to cut the tyres. Back in UK, driving these 1970s versions any long distance was awful! The pinky Land Rovers for the desert weren't bright pink like a Barbie doll, more a sort of pinkish tinge to the sand colour.
I had a friend at university in the late 90s who had an 88" series IIa we nicknamed "Pammy" after Pamela Anderson, as 'she is well built' He used to drive it from Liverpool to Southampton & back several times a year. I did not envy him.
The original Pink Panthers were painted with a mixture of red lead priming paint and ordinary white house paint. The colour you got was whatever came out of the mixing can.. Later PPs had extended range fuel tanks and a couple of huge water tanks in the back wings. They also had permanently attached smoke dischargers. They were classed as A vehicles, the same as tanks and armoured cars and were kept at CVD Ludgershall in Wiltshire (along with a couple of BARVs)
Id love to have a First series-1 model. Not the best they produced but such an iconic 4x4. Always love to see what Jay finds! This beast is just beautiful.
Great show Jay. As always. By the landrover in this video is not a 6 cylinder. It's a 4 cylinder. 2.25 petrol engine. A couple of things give it away. 1. The fact that the 6 cylinder was a semi side valve engine with a side mounted stromberg carburetor. And 2 the firewall is completely different between the 2 models where the gearbox tunnel runs. And can be seen in this video that it's a 4 cylinder.
And you can't easily swap a 2.6 car to a 2.25l. 😂 Ask me how I know. I bought a IIA Six 109" Station Wagon with a Holden 179 swap and I was going to put a 2.25l in it until I worked out it's all just a little different....
@@darcybowyer5743 yeah some of it depends on what Landy model it is. Can do some straight swaps in some, whereas others need modified or a bunch of other dramas taken off it to be replaced by more drama parts.. to then fit the original biggest drama about back in aka the engine.
Yes so true. Also been there and done that. I build these every day of my life. So I have made it my passion to know these. All the way from 1948 to the early defender models.
To the best of my knowledge the British army never bought the six cylinder LR for general service. Probably only for breakdown trucks and fire engines.
About 26-27 mins in, my Alfa made a cameo appearance. Thanks for the kind words Jay! I hope to come back as part of your street grab series. Perhaps with the Alfa or my 31 Buick. Love the show Jay. Huge fan! www.youtube.com/@SmithClassicCars
@@calsurflance5598 Thank you so much! I would love to be back on the show, what a privilege it was. Perhaps you could convince Jay of it... ;) Thanks again!
Ive got a IIA GS CV and a IIA FFR 109" ex Australian Army Land Rovers they really do have that "go anywhere " attitude. The shifter really is a bowl of soup when picking gears and it takes a while to find first. Both of mine have a Suffix D non synchro 1-2 gearbox which is tougher then the early synchro box. The 2.6 is a great engine but many died due to no valve adjustments being made, kinda have to cut a hole in the firewall to adjust em 😅 the Australian Army opted for the 7.1:1 compression 2.25 4 cylinder with twin fan belts. It has twin filler necks, one each side with 60l fuel tanks. They are really fun to drive and to this day the GS CV gets used for the odd jobs around the farm. Still useful over 60 years later.
Yeah that box you had and most stirry boxes do better on offroaders across the board in my opinion. Always liked the mods Australia and Japan make on UK vehicles. You guys turned a decent but nowhere near the best in class Vauxhall Viva into a masterpiece with the Torana. I like Ford and Holden and I know that's a no-go area with you guys but I'd like to think both sides can agree the other has made some amazing vehicles in Australia. Rotaries you guys are the best outside Japan and then its here in UK even though folk will argue otherwise we are the 3rd best at Rotary here Today and Now. I will leave you with a peach of a fact about the long time UK-Australia connection In our cars and motorsports, this one is an absolute gem.. See the absolutely ALL TIMES legendary masterpiece that is the Sierra Cosworth RS500, it was infact a combined effort from UK and Australia to get the first era of chassis from the (3door sierra non-RS500) that were doing ok worldwide as a race car but not dominating.. and between us we turned it into the most awarded race car and the most dominant race chassis there ever was in international and domestic. The RS500s were 3 doors sent to Tickford factory here. Kitted out in RS500 attire and fully seam welded tub, chassis, suspension arms the lot. We messed about with it at 550ish bhp and it decimated all in Touring Cars and Europe Mainland won everything easily the DTM EVERYTHING! Then the Sierra RS500s were basically racing themselves over here in Europe and small upgrades kept it top of the charts. Meanwhile you guys specially developed diff internals and a few other rear suspension mods and some extra cooling tricks (being obviously hotter over your way) with the Bathurst and your domestic racing you guys were getting the mighty RS500 beating the GTRs and everything else. A lot of teams over here adopted the Australian RS500 modifications and went on to as you know... win everything for a very long time. Cheers 🍻
I’ve also a 2a gs 4cyl milli engine petrol 109” going electric and a 88” 2 4cyl petrol I’ve done lots of things to make it reliable(both were totally unreliable at first). They are so addictive but it is a lifestyle with constant checks even on a 20klm drive I’m likely to jump out just as I stop to have a quick walk around which I probably wouldn’t do in a modern car. Given a choice only allowed to have any but only one car for the rest of my life I’d pick the gs over any other vehicle on or off road. Would love to know what those differentials this bloke is running. Look very interesting.
Great to see you covering this vehicle ,I know of a story that a friend of my mum and dad spoke about ,he was Royal signals and when in Germany he had a mate who when driving one of these Land rovers from BAOR (British Army Of The Rhine ) back to Britain for Christmas he filled the second fuel tank with Brandy ,went through all the military check points, right across Europe ,back into the UK and even back into barracks .. Honest to god true story.😂👍👍
As an Ex-Royal Navy Diver EOD Team Oaf, between 1968 and 1979, I spent many a long hour driving, or being in these vehicles. Hated every one of them !! Still do !!
Hate to contradict you Jay, but Elizabeth and Margaret stayed at Windsor Palace through most of the war. When Elizabeth turned 18 she joined the army and was trained as a truck mechanic and ambulance driver. As an engine mechanic she was expected to be able to drive any machine she worked on. Extremely impressive for the day-and-age and her station.
Perhaps I could contradict your contradiction 😉.. Because I think that it's Windsor Castle - rather than being a Palace. I'm not sure what the distinction is. I actually thought they stayed in Buckingham Palace through the war. But most likely they moved back and forth.
Yes, the two Princesses stayed at Windsor throughout the war, but the King and Queen stayed at Buckingham Palace most of the time, but would spend most weekends with their daughters at Windsor, along with some nights during the week here and there. The King and Queen were having tea in the palace when a dud bomb landed on the chapel and demolished it, didn't explode, but was certainly big enough to do still do some damage
Queen Elizabeth being a mechanic is laughable. She mainly checked things off on the vehicles from lists. She was never under vehicles dropping oil for sure.
Elizabeth did NOT train as a mechanic. She trained as an ambulance driver. The duties back then required ambulance drivers to do daily checks - eg check oil levels, coolant levels, look for oil leaks, check tires for pressure and wear, and perform basic diagnostics - eg if engine won't start - is it fuel or electrical? - if electrical, is there spark? - check distributor points. The standard training covered all that. So Elizabeth knew all that, but would hardly be called a mechanic - she couldn't do serious repairs. Elizabeth by all accounts was an intelligent woman and probably got more out of the training than many, though.
@@johnburns4017 She could change a tyre and crank start an old Bedford (mind your wrists). She could also drive army vehicles with crash gearboxes so she could double declutch. That puts her ahead of many guys these days. She knew her way around a socket set.
one of my earliest memories from childhood is certainly being hours and days in front of the metal dashboard of a Series II jumping over dirt roads in Patagonia... I LOVE these cars, even knowing that they also had lots of issues. If I should own a 4x4 today, I would still go for old school: Landie Series I, II or III, Jeep Willys CJ3 CJ5, Toyota J40...!!! the only "modern" option would be Toyota Series 70 or Mercedes/Puch GW (military model), a real 4x4 should be extremely simple, rugged, with as little electronics as possible and as "comfortable" as just barely needed (no-nonsense amenities)!
My brother had a similar Land Rover in Australia. While he did some motorcycle racing, he loaned me the Rover so I could go into Melbourne and straighten out my airline reservations. The thing was a monster and towered over all the other cars. I must have scared the hell out of at least a dozen or more Aussies on the streets. Lots of work to drive but great fun!
I got rescued by one of these once... I was on a backpacking trip and a snowstorm blew in. I had to take the shortest route to a road instead of completing my loop. I came down to a campground and a couple of guys cutting wood gave me a ride in a LR to the nearest paved road. I still had to hitchhike back to my car, and was picked up by a guy on a motorcycle. Wearing my 50lb pack as a passenger with the rider not taking it easy was more adventure than I wanted at the moment. I always like the look of them, it said "Africa" to me. Saw a few in Kenya and Tanzania, and all the old movies set in Africa.
Best line ever came up as they were talking about the Rolls-Royce 4 cylinder engine and Jays says casually: “Well, I have a Ferret tank over there in the corner and it has the Rolls-Royce six cylinder engine in it”
The vehicle you lifted the hood ("bonnet") on is a 2.25 liter petrol four-cylinder engine. The 2.6 liter petrol (1967 and later Series IIA and Series III), and the early 2.0 and 1.6 liter four cylinder engines Rover used in the Land Rover in Series I days, were overhead inlet and side exhaust valve. The 2.6 liter "six" was optional in 109" vehicles starting in 1967. (The U.S. NADA, meaning North American Dollar Area, had a "high compression," 8.8:1 ratio, version with Westlake cylinder head for the US and Canada only.) Jay mentioned that he "thought" the late Bill Holden had a Land-Rover. He did, in both the U.S. and Africa. The Land-Rover Bill Holden had in California was also owned, in part, by the man who played ">Spanky" in the Our Gang comedy series. Am delighted that Jay finally has driven and aired a story on what I still refer to as "the real Land-Rover." Andy McKane, Land Rover owner 16 April 1964 to some point in 1993 or 1994 when my last vehicle, s/n 25900379A, was stolen.
You know where the edge of a Series Land Rover is cos it's also where your shoulder is! The civilian version has a exterior filler but the tank is still under the drivers butt in the (correct!) right hand drive set up ;-). It carries the larger tyres well. Mine is still on the original style wheels, the tyres for which you have to order from farm suppliers!
I've restored 4 old Landies. A 1949 Series 1 80 inch with the 1.6 litre Rolls-Royce motor. A 1957 Series 1 107 five door station wagon. A 1959 Series 2 88 inch 7 seater wagon A 1973 Series 3 109 pick-up. I can rebuild gearboxes blind folded on these things. By the way, series Land Rovers do not have a center diff. They have a indestructible transfer case. I took my 1957 Series 1 107 on a 6 and a half year trip through Africa. No break downs and very, very few paved roads. They perform at their best in the bush.
@6:56 You can see the cylinder head ventilation hose (which runs from breather cap on the valve cover and tees into the crankcase breather hose) is disconnected from the air intake horn. Which means at least some of that red Utah dust was getting sucked into the carb and ingested by the engine. Which is not a Rover Six, but a garden variety 2.25 four cylinder. Also, there is no center differential in any Series Land Rover. It's simply a transfer case and you're either in 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive.
Yes, so many cars (pretty well all of them) on sale today are so high-tech that they become disposable appliances that, once spares are not available, cannot be DIY fixed. Ultimate built-in obsolescence. Land Rovers were designed so that they could be got going even if they broke down in the most remote place on earth with just normal tools and a little ingenuity. That is why the army bought them in thousands. They loved the simplicity. Just one example, on an army Landy any bulb can be changed without even a screwdriver, all lenses just unscrew or (headlights) press and twist to remove. A 15-second job. Later Landys were fitted with the excellent 200 and 300 TDI engines. When the TD5 came out the army stuck with the older engines as they were basic and had no electronics. If you have a vehicle capable of wading through rivers the last thing you want is electronics and PCBs leaving you stranded.
"Feels bulletproof" I assure you, if you ask any British Serviceman from the past 50 years, they will be able to confirm that it is definitely NOT bulletproof.
Yeah I like Jay but as a Scottish ex Paratrooper & REME he went and made me accidentally spit my wine over my new monitor with that one. Utter junk heaps and their offroad ability is over hyped to the point its ridiculous. We were using cheapo Suzuki Jimnys to rescue them at Bordon Tank circuit they needed pulled out the dirt by a wee cheap yellow Suzuki jimny with a £50 bung lift kit on it and not even propper offroad tyres.. f#%&n embarrassing the hype these junk heaps get and I could bring 100 men that will tell anyone that right to their face.
@@Ganiscol ehh? We have more Champion motorsports drivers and riders than any other country on earth has given the population of the place😂 mate incase you hadn't noticed we are the gear stick using Rally, circuit and go-cart guys.. you lot are "quarter-mile" guys that drive on straight grid type roads with auto boxes hahahaha you aren't even close to our level of driving or riding and you know it. A UK B-road or a track such as Knockhill or even a car such as Ariel Atom would have you in tears son. Behave yerself mouche
Yeah the boys getting pasted in the comments for it by us UK guys. Love Jay but he needs to be doing some checking up here on some of these guests claims. Obviously Jay's got a lot of vehicles to be remembering what engine is in an old Landy but come on how's he not noticing that's not a six?
@@bigduphusaj162 I'm in the US, I built all the engines and transmissions that british pacific sold for about 15 years and have done many frame up restorations for people, I kinda know Land Rovers.
@@brianyoung9014 hi, I served for 22yr I was a para for most of it and served in the Reme for the last quarter to get a trade. I have drove over 300 of them and fixed maybe 100+ when I was on the tools as a reme VM-b. I've drove them in over 10 countries and been in 3 war zones driving them, fixing them in the Reme in two war zones and in 4 or 5 countries. I can fix any series Land Rover blindfolded and what I've forgotten about Land Rover is more than you will ever learn about them. I don't mean to patronise you or insult you but everything I mention on here about Land Rover will be 100% correct and not up for dispute in any shape or form. Cheers 🍻
Wow, I was going to skip this episode as I'm not super into off-roading, but damn this owner's knowledge and ability to present information really made me glad I gave it a watch. Very cool, learned a lot. If I drank coffee i'd give his brand a shot.
They all have hinged windscreens. The air transported version is called the Lightweight. The six cylinder was the crap but it had bigger brakes. I've had our Series 2a up to 128kmh - downhill with my nose on the horn button. These old landies are great friends and reliable if treated with sensible empathy. Had mine 42 years, drove it today. Thanks! very good interview. Never heard of the central diff, I will look that up :)
Absolutely. I used to watch it as a kid in the 60s. Clarence the cross-eyed lion and the pet chimpanzee which I think was called Cheetah? I also had a Corgi model of the Daktari Land Rover (which I imagine is why you mention Daktari) with its Zebra camouflage. The Warden, Hedley, drove a Landy in the show. For those who don't know, Daktari is 'doctor' in Swahili.
@@Grahame59 An American Safari series set in Africa with Americans as the leading people. I have rarely seen Americans in Africa, and none doing what they did.
@@johnburns4017 Yes. Like many movies from that era...ebtertaining yet wildly inaccurate. I have a friend who went to into military service after watching John Wayne in " The Green Berets". All these years later we are careful never to mention that movie. So sad.
@@geraldhenrickson7472 I know a guy who joined the British paras after watching _A Bridge Too Far._ He loved it, ending up in a special forces unit. After he left I told him the film was highly inaccurate with a lot fiction and key events missed out. He said if he knew that he would never have joined. But he did and loved it. Lucky for him.
I owned a 2A 109 with a 2.25 litre diesel and a Fairey overdrive. Right hand drive with no power anything. You didn’t need a battery as it was mechanical diesel and you could hand crank it. It also had a PTO to the rear, it was basically a 11 passenger station wagon, 3 in the front and 8 in the rear. A real work horse.
I thought his calling it a "car" a bit odd yet I remember some folks, depending on where they grew up, call all vehicles a "car'. A great show nonetheless.
All Land Rover windshields folded down in that era, even the hardtops. You could remove the hardtop by taking out a few bolts, doing the same with the top half of the doors, and folding the windshield down. I did that with mine a couple of times.
Other interesting British ‘jeeps’ was the Austin Gypsy, that looked like a Land Rover with a different front (and that did have a Rolls Royce engine, same as the luxury Vandam Plas Princess) and the gorgeous Austin Champ. There was also South African, Dutch and Spanish variants of the Land Rover, each with their own slight differences.
My first experience driving a Land Rover was while working for Shell Oil in Oman in the 1970's. That was a Series III station wagon. My Dutch driving instructor told me "wherever you're going, you should always drive as fast as possible. It doesn't make it any more comfortable, but the journey is over more quickly". I currently live in Thailand and drive a 1964 Series IIA SWB soft top (ex Royal Thai Air Force). It's a fun vehicle.
One thing that could be easily tested by just doing a compression test is that some in that era were fitted with over thick head gaskets to lower the compression ratio thus allowing for the use of very low octane (70?) fuel, at the expense of horsepower. Replacing with a thinner head gasket, and re-adjusting the valves could give a few more HP.
I have always wanted an older land Rover. I spent a lot of time the Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Central African Rep. and Dem Rep of Congo (when it was still Zaire) I would have loved a 90's Defender but ended up with one of the Last year Land Rover Discovery Series II's that was built in UK. 1999. I remembered seeing them all decked out in yellow in the Camel Trophy events and in the Paris Dakar Rally with racks and brush guards. I loved it, but it was quirky. If I could get one of these older styles Id swap it out with a Cummins BT4 or an inline Six gasser and more modern 5 speed manual. I love the look of this Land Rover.. Id do it up like a Rhodesian Bush War Land Rover.... Very cool Land Rover.
Wow, your extensive knowledge of the British Army and Land Rovers is impressive! 🙌 It's fascinating to hear about the specific features and modifications of the SIII FFR vehicles. Your insights shed light on the history and functionality of this military spec Land Rover. Thanks for sharing your expertise and adding valuable context to the discussion! 🚙🔧🇬🇧
Pity his knowledge, is far from the truth! For a start this L R is a military vehicle not a car, for any L R to be designated as FFR it has to have a 24 volt electrical system. The use of Pink Paint, was first used on ships, then vehicles, nothing to do with Sand, but the optical effect of distinguishing objects , in certain sunlight conditions, to fuel the vehicle, it is not necessary to remove any seat, but simply, turn the seat cushion ,up much in the way as a cinema seat.
L R s were only manufactured after WW2 so were never used by the SAS , in North Africa the vehicle of choice for desert use (WW2 )was a modified Chevrolet,
Brit here who has lived in the US for 17 years. US/UK passports and septic wife. Land Rover is almost SACRED to the Brits, so any disrespect could cause another war, which, without the French this time, we would win... I saw a review 40 years ago that said that gear change was "agricultural".... Alex knows his stuff...
The vehicle, if it is origional, should not have a centre differential just a transfer box. The central differential came in with the permenant 4 wheel drive coil sprung versions. Nice looking vehicle. My daily driver is a 1982 series 3 which I have used for over 25 years.
Three colour coded gear levers if I recall. was it black, for the gear selector, then yellow and red, for 4WD(which was NOT to be used on sealed surfaces) and the Hi-Lo selector.(I cant remember which colour referred to each function btw)?
Learned to drive an past my test in series 2A…….long wheel base… terrible lock….. you need 3 acres to turn round…. I think Jay found that out😝….. my favourite was the early Lightweights…(air portable)😉
That is a 2.25l 4 cylinder. The FFR vehicles are 24 volt. The 109" military units are called as 1 ton units. The windscreen hinge is common to all series Land Rovers.
@@ZoomStranger Well they weren't when I worked there at the end of series 3 production, all the electrical systems were 24 volt, including the ignition systems, which that vehicle does not have, nor does it have the military spec. carb and intake.
@@ZoomStranger All the FFRs I've seen (including mine) were 24V electrics (2x 12V batteries between the seats) but had an additional pair of 24V batteries in the rear, behind the bulkhead, for the radios.
@@Grahame59 thanks - mine is an Australian FFR and has a box between the seats for admin I'd guess - it's pretty handy. I could be wrong about the separate 24v but mine was always 12v, the radio gear was stripped out of it at Auction I think, but I was under the impression it's radio batteries were in the rear under the radios. I am the second owner after the Army, thanks again.
@@ZoomStranger Many have been converted to 12V after leaving the army so that normal bulbs, accessories (sat nav, radio, etc) can be fitted. I guess the army's and civilian priorities differ somewhat!
I worked on these a little as an apprentice electrician in the early 1980s. UK MOD had 10s of 1000s of them. This looks like an ex UK MOD vehicle. Most of the engines were a 2.3L 4 cylinder. I've never seen a straight 6 personally. If you can find the UK MOD license plate number, you may be able to find out more about the vehicle's history. The format at that time was 11AB22. In other words, two digits-two letters-two two digits. It's good to see one again. You are fortunate it's not one of the full radio fitted ones that had a 12V electrical system for the vehicle and a second 24V alternator with batteries behind the front seats. They also had screened ignition. They were a pain and the radio batteries were prone to shorting out when the wiring got old.
I own one of these, use it as a daily driver out in Cyprus, genuinely the best car I’ve ever driven. Bulletproof and it’ll go anywhere you can take it, not to mention it looks awesome
That vehicle does definitely not have a centre differential as standard, hence why you can't drive them in 4WD on hard surfaces without them binding up.... centre diffs first came out in early Range Rovers in 1971, 109 stage 1 V8 and early 110s in the early 1980s where first production vehicles Land-rover sold with centre diffs...... all fun vehicles to own if you like learning mechanics and the best vehicles to learn to drive in
These had a transfer box that took the drive from the gearbox to the front and rear diffs. The transfer box had no differential mechanism so the transmission could get "wound up" if driving on non slippery surfaces.
I love vintage Land Rovers! This one is a true original! The only thing missing on this Landy is a dent in the door from where a rhino hit it during a safari!
9:09 Sorry mate but I drove the Series 3 for a snow season down here, unless it's been very modified, there is no full time 4x4. Yes it's part time 4x4 and you need to be VERY careful with it. If you go from snow or ice to dry bitumen and forget to change back to 4x2 you will snap the front short axle like a carrot. 9:42 Sounds like a Range Rover power divider to me. A lovely vehicle to drive and great steering. At the time (on the mountain) they were being phased out by the 47 series Landcruiser with the old 2H motor, they carried 12 passengers as opposed to 10 as well as climb hills that the old Landy wouldn't even look at. I reckon it came down to the old saying "It outlived its usefulness" just like me and many more. LOL.
Whoa! That's not a 2.6L six, it's a 2.25L four. How can the owner not know the difference? The 2.6L is an F-head engine and has a sidedraft carb on the other side of the engine. Plus, only four plugs and wires which should be readily visible to both men. He didn't get too much wrong on the basic history of Land Rover but this is a HUGE faux pas!
saw it too! How badly can tou know your own vehicle... Also :" an other tell tell sign of it's military history is the folding windshield" -> all s3 had folding windshield.....
It started downhill as soon as Jay said it was a street grab - but the guy lives in Colorado - is a CEO - and previously brought on his Porche - ... just not really like the previous down to earth street grabs.
Clueless. Air breather tube not connected, so the red Moab dust is being sucked straight into the carb. This whole vid is cringe-worthy for a real Landy owner who isn't just a pretentious show-off.
I spent 15 years in the British Army as a Radio Telegraphist and then Radio Technician during the era when these were being phased out and the diesel 110s were replacing them. That vehicle looks to have originally been a 3/4T SIII FFR (Fitted For Radio). SIII FFRs had quite some differences from GS (General Service) vehicles:
1. 24V electrics, ignition system all shielded. Two batteries in a metal box where the middle front seat is in that one. HUGE 24V alternator.
2. 2 or 4x 100Ah radio batteries behind the centre bulkhead in a large steel box. Generated so much current that it was possible to weld a spanner/wrench if not careful when tightening the lugs.
3. Above the radio battery box, a radio table for mounting the radios on, which ran pretty much the width of the vehicle.
4. Antenna mounting arms for HF antennas on the sides of the vehicle (you can see the mounting holes for these)
5. Antenna Tuner Unit mounting points on the front wings/fenders, which you can see.
6. "Dexion" racking above the centre bulkhead for fitting radio and power cables to.
7. Double stack front bumpers, as seen
8. Stub rear bumpers, as seen
9. Mounting points for pick and shovel on the tailgate
10. Spare wheel mount on bonnet/hood (the commenter below who says it wasn't originally mounted there below for visibility reasons is wrong). Yes it was, and yes, the visibility over it was poor.
11. Dual fuel tanks with changeover lever (great fun to put it in the center neutral position as a prank)
12. Manual throttle to charge the batteries when static.
13. Side bonnet/hood catches.
14. Centre-dash mounted light switch with convoy mode
Many of these features have been removed from that example, but looks like it was originally an FFR, given what's still on it. No reason to have the antenna mount points if it wasn't FFR, and hand throttles were rare on other vehicles.
Comments below regarding "why left hand drive" - it's because when that vehicle was new, the majority of the British Army was stationed in Germany, and nearly all vehicles there were ordered as left hand drive. Also a comment about it being possibly military police because of the rifle clips - no, they were standard on FFRs, but I've seen them on some GS vehicles. It could have been an MP vehicle, but just as likely it was issued to any other unit that had a need for vehicles with radios fitted (ie nearly all units). Another comment regarding the rope round the bumper being for "street cred" - the Complete Equipment Schedule contained a steel tow rope, and we often wrapped them round the bumper.
I ran the POL point in Hammersmith barracks, Herford, during the later 80s. Ever heard of that, perhaps? :)
@@petebeatminister HQ 4 Armd Div and Signal Regiment? No. Nor Wentworth, Harewood and Maresfield Bks in Herford :)
@@markashmeade5854 Really.... Well, may be we met - remember a fair haired guy sitting in a tiny glass hut on the POL point, or in his old red Mercedes near by? Yep, thats me....
I've done 34 years btw., but not all at the POL point, until they closed shop in 2015
Excellent info, thanks for posting.
The seats look wrong to my old memory
I bought my Series 3 88" or SWB new in 1975 as a kid of 23....was quite expensive for me.....but I saved up hard to afford it.
I am now 71 and still own it....don't get used a lot now but its still fully ready for the road.
I am the only person that ever worked on it in its life time.
I will never part with it.
Nick from the UK.
You were young , driving my late fathers 74 series 3 88” safari he bought new in Nz .He was 35 when he got it .
As a "true car guy" or gear head. .
You have to love Jay. A national treasure.
Hes livin the dream he worked hard for.
I always laugh as he says something I was thinking or asks a question I was wondering.
Thanks Jay!!!
What exactly is a "National Treasure?"
@@gteefxr3094 . A National Treasure is a PERSON , that stands out from the Crowd . For the Right reasons . So not you G'tee .
@@gteefxr3094 a term of endearment for someone special who has provided people with good.
For one thing... Jay was the last talk show host worth a dime. Always funny or clever. Never smarmy and political.
Then the Jays Garage productions over the years have always been fun for people that understand as well as novice car people.
An honest answer assuming that was an honest question.
@@miker7798 well put he's part of the last generation that made this Country great.
He worked hard and he is a national treasure
Jay is a true national treasure and a real American hero. I can't help but get emotional and cry with joy and pride every time I watch jay's videos.
That was fun, gentlemen! I think the best part of this show is that you never know what's gonna come through the Garage! Thanks, Alex, Jay, and the crew for another great episode!✌️❤🙂🇨🇦
As a Landrover guy for over 20 yrs, this is great to see! I'm still driving my 04' Disco TD5 and even though it's slow compared to modern trucks, it still is a pleasure to drive.
Thanks for this video Jay and Alex.
Gregg 🙂
I have a 1960 88" Series 2, and had a great time restoring it myself - and an absolutely fun drive, summer and winter.
@notfiveo he does it all the time… either his age is showing or that’s just Jay’s style 😎
I also have a 1960 s2 88” 😎😎
My first vehicle was a 1971 Series IIA 88. Slow, bumpy, noisy, cold in winter, and I miss it more than any vehicle I've ever owned.
One of my earliest vehicles as a younger man was an ex New Zealand Army Series 2A... and I have the same sentiment. Wish I never sold it!
Yep, same here, I had a Series 2A 88 with a truck cab and an open back with a canvas hood. It even had a fairey overdrive and a capstan winch which was better than any modern winch. I had it for 14 years and it worked in my business everyday. I ended up selling it to a student from Kuwait for more than I paid for it, but I wish I still had it.
My first "car" was a SIIa lightweight. I later sold it about 35 years ago for £440 , worth 20x that now . Both my wife an I wish we had never sold it.
My first car was a 56 series 1.
Says everyone who ever sold a LandRover... 🥺
When I was in the UK arm forces These were the backbone of whatever force you were in… They are absolutely incredible and never really let you down. A few of the trim bits fell off, but the main bits never let you down.
Seeing Jay drive these vehicles and wax poetic about the history is such a joy.
Owning a Landrover makes you into a better mechanic. For an off road vehicle, you need something that is simple. Here in Australia, if something fails on a modern electronically controlled vehicle, you could be stuck a thousand km's from any help with no way to fix it yourself. Today's off roaders are too smart for their own good.
So true, ya need a degree in electronics to fix modern cars.
Yup... ^THIS^...
This vehicle ruled the Australian offroad market at one point, until Toyota brought out the Landcruiser.
Love the comment!! New off road vehicals for the most part are for grocery getting and an occasional dirt road.
@@cambs0181 Land Rovers were so ridiculously expensive. Series II 109 cost more than Chevrolet Corvette back then.
My father used to sell these back in the 60's and he would get to borrow one on the weekend and take the family into the mountains. Good times, and I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Land Rovers since.
Your dad sold 1972 Land Rovers back in the 1960's? Impressive......
@@muninrob Dad was a time traveler, apparently 😊
I'm sure you just meant Land Rover Series vehicles. The first ones went on sale in 1948.
I like this kind of content, don't get me wrong I like all the fast, high tech, luxury cars too but its nice to see something with dirt, dust and with a patina to it and in this case history.
Analog is a great thing
I was based in Germany from 1980-1984 and we had many 109 series 3’s and they were all 4 cylinder 2250cc models.
My late father used to make those on the night shift in Solihull, yes that famous night shift from the Sun.
He was the safety officer for the plant and used to get loan vehicle for others but never himself!!
He used to do paint rectification in the paint shop, and press shop sent him deaf!
He restored a late model series 2A, in blue , white steels, slightly larger tyres, and light blue canvas top.
It was a great vehicle, miss the bouncing leaf springs.
I’m doing the weekend night shift at the moment. It’s a great shift to do as you get nearly a week off. It’s great to look forward to Monday mornings😂😂😂
Lode lane , Solihull 😊.
@@MrBlaugeist did you Anthony 'tony' Perry by chance.
The only kind thing he did, was when l was 8 or 9 l drew without a compass for the wheels. A side view drawing of a Range Rover and took into the design office and got some praise from the designers.
As a 15year old I learnt to drive on a Series 1 and the test instructor made me do a rather steep hill start three times. My Father used to take us to Landrover trials and took us on a family outing to central Turkey in the 60's - that was some adventure. Never forget taking the roof off with six bolts, the heater's sole functionality to cook the passenger's shin, wandering steering which became perfectly normal and those insane yet strangely hypnotic windscreen wipers. Second gear low range was usually the most needed and it would creep down the steepest slopes that way and those narrow tires so effective in wet grass and mud.
In WWII, P-40s sent to North Africa were painted in a sand colour, but the paint faded to pink. (Sue Johnson, of the Johnson & Johnson fortune) had one as a warbird in that colour.)
Congratulations on the audio quality from what must have been a challenging environment.
if you know the quirks of these they will never let you down probably the best vehicle the uk has ever made
Don't you just love when you have an owner that knows absolutely nothing at all and just makes it up as goes along,with just the odd bit correct by luck
In desert storm we had a small off road test against an American Humvee and the LR destroyed it. I drove these in Germany, England, Saudi, Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, Canada, Northern Ireland. They will always hold a special place in my heart, even with all of the issues. These things would take a real beating.
I've heard many stories of the LR and the Chevy trucks having to pull Humvees out when they got stuck. 😂🤣
I heard the one on how British Army soldiers once rescued a CH47 stuck in the desert with an LR -- btw, the British have thousands upon thousands of stories about how their systems are better than anything the Americans have, and their soldiers/sailors/marines/aircrew/Police are better than the Americans. It is the worst case of penis-envy ever.
Did you see the New Zealand UN LRs in Bosnia?
They were converted in New Zealand from the V8 petrol motorl to the Nissan LD28...straight 6 diesel engine.
Best thing since sliced bread as far as reliability and fuel mileage were concerned.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Agree… we were at Eagle Base. Worked on LRs and Toyota LCs. LRs broke and broke hard. Couldn’t keep them running. LCs were driven to the ground. The Toyota’s ran and kept running. No one wanted to use the LRs. Everyone wanted to sign out the LCs.
@@osifielDoperAtive love the Land cruisers
To me this is my dream vehicle. Being from the UK, I am constantly toying with the idea of restoring one. Great video
Land Rover with good old "Armstrong" steering. Happy Memorial Day Jay, for all you do for Vets.
The S3 is still fit for purpose.
A staple of the British Armed Forces, one of the all time classics.
Yes, the drive can be transferred to the front wheels.
I once had a broken 1/2-shaft on a rear wheel. After transferring the drive to the front, I drove 120 miles to a dealership, bought the new part and in less than 10 minutes, fitted it (a spanner and some grease) and was on my way; a great vehicle, now replaced by a "Chelsea Tractor" :(
I boke a rear axle and just took out the rear drive shaft drove my series 3 to work for weeks like that.
An overdrive is the way to go on these.
My 88 S3 had one and made life so much nicer :D
I love the simplicity of old vehicles. I remember setting the points using a piece of cardboard from a cigarette packet as a feeler gauge!
I had a '72 Series IIA (bought in '74 and sold a few years later) that was great to work on, like the owner said- easy to find and fix problems. Changed from a generator to an alternator and found many parts at a place in Califon, N.J. Sadly the door mounts and the rear frame completely rusted out in a few years of New England winters. Trans was a 1-2 gear change crashbox but I taught my GF, and now wife, how to drive a manual on it.
several of my friends have series 2s One of them drove his from Mechanicsburg pa to the Yukon Territory and back. They never exceeded 45 MPH Its decked out to camp in. Amazing vehicles. Im a Willys guy I have restored 24 of them and see no reason to have a Rover as they are much larger than any Willys. Great history on yours. I learned a lot! Tkx
I am in UK and also own a Series 3 ex-MOD FFR. Your would have originally had large aerial boxes on the front wings. All FFRs were 24V electrics with 2 12V batteries under where your middle seat is.Great cars. Steering would be lighter with the original 7.50x16 tyres though your tyres look great. The rear differential cover is painted white so that when you select Convoy Mode all the lights go out (even instrument lights go out!) except for a small light on the chassis that points at the diff housing. Each Land Rover in the convoy then follows using the glow from the white diffs. The front vehicle of course would not have convoy mode switched on.
Painted white so you can find it easier when replacing the pie crust diff.
@@motsigman 100% on the money
Thanks for the enlightenment. 👍 I was wondering why the diff cover was painted white.
Dude, noone cares
@@KosherFinance You'd be surprised.
Drove them back in West Germany back the late 701s, early 80s when Canadian troops trained with The British Army of The Rhine, great vehicles.
Finally! A classic Land Rover in Jay's garage!
👏👏👏🤲🙏🌷
In 1999 bought an ex-UK military LR 109 RHD with 12,000miles (yes 12) for £400 or around $550 it drove so well and solid. My other 88” which had 250k miles on it was a shaking and rattling. Lost count how many LR (upto 2001 MY) I’ve owned, reliability really does come down to maintenance and the experience of the mechanic doing the servicing and repairs.
Due to its ability to go most places, there was a point in the 20th century where the first car a lot of people in the world ever saw was a Land Rover.
Imagine if the first car someone ever saw was a Fiat Multipla.
There's more in the deep jungle of Kenya that are still been used as a public transportation
Allegedly it was around 60% of the entire planets population. Think about that for a minute!
@@bushmanPMRR
Land Rovers were built in South America and South Africa.
@@Cincy32 I'd still choose a donkey over it although I know cars for quite some time
Saw one of these a full years ago in Victoria, BC. I was a special order for Gaddafi of Libya but never delivered. This Canadian in Europe managed to pick it up brand new. It was awesome. He had some sort of problem importing it due to the missing paperwork so he had it in storage for a few years before he managed to get it into British Columbia and get it plated.
I love Land Rovers, it was my father's job in Rome Italy selling Land Rover spares from 1968 until 1993, we had quite a few even 1948 Series One HUE222.
Fantastic, I have a very similar ex-military series 3 pickup and absolutely love it. So much fun to drive and puts a smile on your face wherever you go. Also draws more attention than any modern hypercar.
Totally agree. Weird how something so basic, slow, thirsty and flawed (as a driving machine) can be so much fun but it is!
1970/71..I'm a senior in high school and my plan was to get a Land Rover like this one and drive from Colorado to Florida. I'd never been to Florida and thought it would be quite an adventure. Well that never happened. Alex mentioned something about the car being in Berlin at one time. I was stationed in Berlin in the mid 70s and had a few British Army buddies and saw a few of the Rovers patrolling along the wall. We did the same in our Mutt Jeeps. I can't remember what the French forces drove.
I love how Jay says "Well, I've got a tank over there in the corner" 😎👍🤣
The Norwegian military sold off a bunch of these a couple of decades ago, they were 1970s models with around 30-40k KM on the odometer. They were professionally maintained and in good condition, they sold for around $4000 a piece. I wish I could get one at the time, but I was young and didn't have the money.
Drove these lots in the Falklands in '82-'83. They would go anywhere, which was just as well because the crushed rock tracks the Engineers laid quickly got rougher than the general terrain, but with sharper rocks to cut the tyres. Back in UK, driving these 1970s versions any long distance was awful! The pinky Land Rovers for the desert weren't bright pink like a Barbie doll, more a sort of pinkish tinge to the sand colour.
Thank you for your service Tim
Same pink as the RAF Buccaneers in the Gulf War?
I had a friend at university in the late 90s who had an 88" series IIa we nicknamed "Pammy" after Pamela Anderson, as 'she is well built'
He used to drive it from Liverpool to Southampton & back several times a year. I did not envy him.
@@timonsolus Usually known as "salmon pink" more like a very faded washed out orange than an out and out pink
The original Pink Panthers were painted with a mixture of red lead priming paint and ordinary white house paint. The colour you got was whatever came out of the mixing can..
Later PPs had extended range fuel tanks and a couple of huge water tanks in the back wings. They also had permanently attached smoke dischargers. They were classed as A vehicles, the same as tanks and armoured cars and were kept at CVD Ludgershall in Wiltshire (along with a couple of BARVs)
Id love to have a First series-1 model. Not the best they produced but such an iconic 4x4. Always love to see what Jay finds! This beast is just beautiful.
I always enjoy these episodes because you get a history lesson with every vehicle.
I never knew about the Barbie Pink SAS Land Rover, that alone is worthy of a 10 episode Netflix doco
It wasn't "Barbie" pink, they were known as Pink Panther's.
Great show Jay. As always. By the landrover in this video is not a 6 cylinder. It's a 4 cylinder. 2.25 petrol engine. A couple of things give it away. 1. The fact that the 6 cylinder was a semi side valve engine with a side mounted stromberg carburetor. And 2 the firewall is completely different between the 2 models where the gearbox tunnel runs. And can be seen in this video that it's a 4 cylinder.
And you can't easily swap a 2.6 car to a 2.25l. 😂 Ask me how I know. I bought a IIA Six 109" Station Wagon with a Holden 179 swap and I was going to put a 2.25l in it until I worked out it's all just a little different....
@@darcybowyer5743 yeah some of it depends on what Landy model it is. Can do some straight swaps in some, whereas others need modified or a bunch of other dramas taken off it to be replaced by more drama parts.. to then fit the original biggest drama about back in aka the engine.
Yes so true. Also been there and done that. I build these every day of my life. So I have made it my passion to know these. All the way from 1948 to the early defender models.
To the best of my knowledge the British army never bought the six cylinder LR for general service. Probably only for breakdown trucks and fire engines.
@@darcybowyer5743 How do you know?😁
About 26-27 mins in, my Alfa made a cameo appearance. Thanks for the kind words Jay! I hope to come back as part of your street grab series. Perhaps with the Alfa or my 31 Buick. Love the show Jay. Huge fan! www.youtube.com/@SmithClassicCars
That Alfa looks like a beauty.👌
Would love to see it on the show.👍
@@calsurflance5598 Thank you so much. I'd love to see it on the show too. Thanks for the kind words.
@@calsurflance5598 Thank you so much! I would love to be back on the show, what a privilege it was. Perhaps you could convince Jay of it... ;) Thanks again!
finally a land rover, on Jays garage, one of my fav
Ive got a IIA GS CV and a IIA FFR 109" ex Australian Army Land Rovers they really do have that "go anywhere " attitude. The shifter really is a bowl of soup when picking gears and it takes a while to find first. Both of mine have a Suffix D non synchro 1-2 gearbox which is tougher then the early synchro box. The 2.6 is a great engine but many died due to no valve adjustments being made, kinda have to cut a hole in the firewall to adjust em 😅 the Australian Army opted for the 7.1:1 compression 2.25 4 cylinder with twin fan belts. It has twin filler necks, one each side with 60l fuel tanks. They are really fun to drive and to this day the GS CV gets used for the odd jobs around the farm. Still useful over 60 years later.
You Australians also made the Perentie which I'd argue was the best production Land Rover.
Yeah that box you had and most stirry boxes do better on offroaders across the board in my opinion. Always liked the mods Australia and Japan make on UK vehicles. You guys turned a decent but nowhere near the best in class Vauxhall Viva into a masterpiece with the Torana. I like Ford and Holden and I know that's a no-go area with you guys but I'd like to think both sides can agree the other has made some amazing vehicles in Australia. Rotaries you guys are the best outside Japan and then its here in UK even though folk will argue otherwise we are the 3rd best at Rotary here Today and Now.
I will leave you with a peach of a fact about the long time UK-Australia connection In our cars and motorsports, this one is an absolute gem.. See the absolutely ALL TIMES legendary masterpiece that is the Sierra Cosworth RS500, it was infact a combined effort from UK and Australia to get the first era of chassis from the (3door sierra non-RS500) that were doing ok worldwide as a race car but not dominating.. and between us we turned it into the most awarded race car and the most dominant race chassis there ever was in international and domestic. The RS500s were 3 doors sent to Tickford factory here. Kitted out in RS500 attire and fully seam welded tub, chassis, suspension arms the lot. We messed about with it at 550ish bhp and it decimated all in Touring Cars and Europe Mainland won everything easily the DTM EVERYTHING! Then the Sierra RS500s were basically racing themselves over here in Europe and small upgrades kept it top of the charts. Meanwhile you guys specially developed diff internals and a few other rear suspension mods and some extra cooling tricks (being obviously hotter over your way) with the Bathurst and your domestic racing you guys were getting the mighty RS500 beating the GTRs and everything else. A lot of teams over here adopted the Australian RS500 modifications and went on to as you know... win everything for a very long time. Cheers 🍻
I’ve also a 2a gs 4cyl milli engine petrol 109” going electric and a 88” 2 4cyl petrol I’ve done lots of things to make it reliable(both were totally unreliable at first). They are so addictive but it is a lifestyle with constant checks even on a 20klm drive I’m likely to jump out just as I stop to have a quick walk around which I probably wouldn’t do in a modern car. Given a choice only allowed to have any but only one car for the rest of my life I’d pick the gs over any other vehicle on or off road. Would love to know what those differentials this bloke is running. Look very interesting.
Great to see you covering this vehicle ,I know of a story that a friend of my mum and dad spoke about ,he was Royal signals and when in Germany he had a mate who when driving one of these Land rovers from BAOR (British Army Of The Rhine ) back to Britain for Christmas he filled the second fuel tank with Brandy ,went through all the military check points, right across Europe ,back into the UK and even back into barracks ..
Honest to god true story.😂👍👍
i'm happy to see Jay still making this wonderful content for us even after all the accidents he's gone through! thank you!!
I've driven some of these LR's on my military service in Portugal back in 1989/90. Great cars
As an Ex-Royal Navy Diver EOD Team Oaf, between 1968 and 1979, I spent many a long hour driving, or being in these vehicles. Hated every one of them !! Still do !!
Hate to contradict you Jay, but Elizabeth and Margaret stayed at Windsor Palace through most of the war. When Elizabeth turned 18 she joined the army and was trained as a truck mechanic and ambulance driver. As an engine mechanic she was expected to be able to drive any machine she worked on. Extremely impressive for the day-and-age and her station.
Perhaps I could contradict your contradiction 😉.. Because I think that it's Windsor Castle - rather than being a Palace. I'm not sure what the distinction is.
I actually thought they stayed in Buckingham Palace through the war. But most likely they moved back and forth.
Yes, the two Princesses stayed at Windsor throughout the war, but the King and Queen stayed at Buckingham Palace most of the time, but would spend most weekends with their daughters at Windsor, along with some nights during the week here and there. The King and Queen were having tea in the palace when a dud bomb landed on the chapel and demolished it, didn't explode, but was certainly big enough to do still do some damage
Queen Elizabeth being a mechanic is laughable. She mainly checked things off on the vehicles from lists. She was never under vehicles dropping oil for sure.
Elizabeth did NOT train as a mechanic. She trained as an ambulance driver. The duties back then required ambulance drivers to do daily checks - eg check oil levels, coolant levels, look for oil leaks, check tires for pressure and wear, and perform basic diagnostics - eg if engine won't start - is it fuel or electrical? - if electrical, is there spark? - check distributor points. The standard training covered all that. So Elizabeth knew all that, but would hardly be called a mechanic - she couldn't do serious repairs.
Elizabeth by all accounts was an intelligent woman and probably got more out of the training than many, though.
@@johnburns4017 She could change a tyre and crank start an old Bedford (mind your wrists). She could also drive army vehicles with crash gearboxes so she could double declutch. That puts her ahead of many guys these days. She knew her way around a socket set.
one of my earliest memories from childhood is certainly being hours and days in front of the metal dashboard of a Series II jumping over dirt roads in Patagonia... I LOVE these cars, even knowing that they also had lots of issues. If I should own a 4x4 today, I would still go for old school: Landie Series I, II or III, Jeep Willys CJ3 CJ5, Toyota J40...!!! the only "modern" option would be Toyota Series 70 or Mercedes/Puch GW (military model), a real 4x4 should be extremely simple, rugged, with as little electronics as possible and as "comfortable" as just barely needed (no-nonsense amenities)!
My brother had a similar Land Rover in Australia. While he did some motorcycle racing, he loaned me the Rover so I could go into Melbourne and straighten out my airline reservations. The thing was a monster and towered over all the other cars. I must have scared the hell out of at least a dozen or more Aussies on the streets. Lots of work to drive but great fun!
I got rescued by one of these once... I was on a backpacking trip and a snowstorm blew in. I had to take the shortest route to a road instead of completing my loop. I came down to a campground and a couple of guys cutting wood gave me a ride in a LR to the nearest paved road. I still had to hitchhike back to my car, and was picked up by a guy on a motorcycle. Wearing my 50lb pack as a passenger with the rider not taking it easy was more adventure than I wanted at the moment.
I always like the look of them, it said "Africa" to me. Saw a few in Kenya and Tanzania, and all the old movies set in Africa.
Best line ever came up as they were talking about the Rolls-Royce 4 cylinder engine and Jays says casually: “Well, I have a Ferret tank over there in the corner and it has the Rolls-Royce six cylinder engine in it”
The vehicle you lifted the hood ("bonnet") on is a 2.25 liter petrol four-cylinder engine. The 2.6 liter petrol (1967 and later Series IIA and Series III), and the early 2.0 and 1.6 liter four cylinder engines Rover used in the Land Rover in Series I days, were overhead inlet and side exhaust valve. The 2.6 liter "six" was optional in 109" vehicles starting in 1967. (The U.S. NADA, meaning North American Dollar Area, had a "high compression," 8.8:1 ratio, version with Westlake cylinder head for the US and Canada only.) Jay mentioned that he "thought" the late Bill Holden had a Land-Rover. He did, in both the U.S. and Africa. The Land-Rover Bill Holden had in California was also owned, in part, by the man who played ">Spanky" in the Our Gang comedy series. Am delighted that Jay finally has driven and aired a story on what I still refer to as "the real Land-Rover." Andy McKane, Land Rover owner 16 April 1964 to some point in 1993 or 1994 when my last vehicle, s/n 25900379A, was stolen.
You know where the edge of a Series Land Rover is cos it's also where your shoulder is! The civilian version has a exterior filler but the tank is still under the drivers butt in the (correct!) right hand drive set up ;-). It carries the larger tyres well. Mine is still on the original style wheels, the tyres for which you have to order from farm suppliers!
Jay runs it through a mud puddle on the shoulder of the road...hilarious!!
I've restored 4 old Landies.
A 1949 Series 1 80 inch with the 1.6 litre Rolls-Royce motor.
A 1957 Series 1 107 five door station wagon.
A 1959 Series 2 88 inch 7 seater wagon
A 1973 Series 3 109 pick-up.
I can rebuild gearboxes blind folded on these things.
By the way, series Land Rovers do not have a center diff. They have a indestructible transfer case.
I took my 1957 Series 1 107 on a 6 and a half year trip through Africa. No break downs and very, very few paved roads. They perform at their best in the bush.
@6:56 You can see the cylinder head ventilation hose (which runs from breather cap on the valve cover and tees into the crankcase breather hose) is disconnected from the air intake horn. Which means at least some of that red Utah dust was getting sucked into the carb and ingested by the engine. Which is not a Rover Six, but a garden variety 2.25 four cylinder.
Also, there is no center differential in any Series Land Rover. It's simply a transfer case and you're either in 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive.
I'm a real fan of basic,low tech vehicles. As Scotty said "the more you over take the plumbing,the easier it is to stop up the drain"😄
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Yes, so many cars (pretty well all of them) on sale today are so high-tech that they become disposable appliances that, once spares are not available, cannot be DIY fixed. Ultimate built-in obsolescence. Land Rovers were designed so that they could be got going even if they broke down in the most remote place on earth with just normal tools and a little ingenuity. That is why the army bought them in thousands. They loved the simplicity. Just one example, on an army Landy any bulb can be changed without even a screwdriver, all lenses just unscrew or (headlights) press and twist to remove. A 15-second job. Later Landys were fitted with the excellent 200 and 300 TDI engines. When the TD5 came out the army stuck with the older engines as they were basic and had no electronics. If you have a vehicle capable of wading through rivers the last thing you want is electronics and PCBs leaving you stranded.
"Feels bulletproof" I assure you, if you ask any British Serviceman from the past 50 years, they will be able to confirm that it is definitely NOT bulletproof.
That's why they have thing like the FOXHOUND and MASTIFF now.
Yeah I like Jay but as a Scottish ex Paratrooper & REME he went and made me accidentally spit my wine over my new monitor with that one. Utter junk heaps and their offroad ability is over hyped to the point its ridiculous. We were using cheapo Suzuki Jimnys to rescue them at Bordon Tank circuit they needed pulled out the dirt by a wee cheap yellow Suzuki jimny with a £50 bung lift kit on it and not even propper offroad tyres.. f#%&n embarrassing the hype these junk heaps get and I could bring 100 men that will tell anyone that right to their face.
@@bigduphusaj162 ya'll just cant drive! 😅
@@Ganiscol ehh? We have more Champion motorsports drivers and riders than any other country on earth has given the population of the place😂 mate incase you hadn't noticed we are the gear stick using Rally, circuit and go-cart guys.. you lot are "quarter-mile" guys that drive on straight grid type roads with auto boxes hahahaha you aren't even close to our level of driving or riding and you know it. A UK B-road or a track such as Knockhill or even a car such as Ariel Atom would have you in tears son. Behave yerself mouche
@@Ganiscol You have no idea how true that statement is !
Thats not a 2.6 its a 2.25 ltr, it does not have a center diff, and its not an ffr, all series land rovers have a folding windshield.
Yeah the boys getting pasted in the comments for it by us UK guys. Love Jay but he needs to be doing some checking up here on some of these guests claims. Obviously Jay's got a lot of vehicles to be remembering what engine is in an old Landy but come on how's he not noticing that's not a six?
@@bigduphusaj162 I'm in the US, I built all the engines and transmissions that british pacific sold for about 15 years and have done many frame up restorations for people, I kinda know Land Rovers.
And being left hand drive, it could be Canadian military.
@@brianyoung9014 hi, I served for 22yr I was a para for most of it and served in the Reme for the last quarter to get a trade. I have drove over 300 of them and fixed maybe 100+ when I was on the tools as a reme VM-b. I've drove them in over 10 countries and been in 3 war zones driving them, fixing them in the Reme in two war zones and in 4 or 5 countries. I can fix any series Land Rover blindfolded and what I've forgotten about Land Rover is more than you will ever learn about them. I don't mean to patronise you or insult you but everything I mention on here about Land Rover will be 100% correct and not up for dispute in any shape or form. Cheers 🍻
didnt the yanks get the v8?
It's 82 degrees here today. What a perfect cruiser for a day like this.
Wow, I was going to skip this episode as I'm not super into off-roading, but damn this owner's knowledge and ability to present information really made me glad I gave it a watch. Very cool, learned a lot. If I drank coffee i'd give his brand a shot.
Hitting 50 was like rentering the Earth's atmosphere in the Space Shuttle. It was great fun to drive in my early army days. Great video Jay.
Good to see Jay's doing ok!
They all have hinged windscreens. The air transported version is called the Lightweight. The six cylinder was the crap but it had bigger brakes. I've had our Series 2a up to 128kmh - downhill with my nose on the horn button.
These old landies are great friends and reliable if treated with sensible empathy. Had mine 42 years, drove it today.
Thanks! very good interview. Never heard of the central diff, I will look that up :)
Centre diff on 90s with permanent 4wd. Not a a series!
This is the first vehicle I ever rode in as a small kid , I am 57 now. And I am an Omani too. Does anyone remember Daktari?
Daktari? Yes.
Absolutely. I used to watch it as a kid in the 60s. Clarence the cross-eyed lion and the pet chimpanzee which I think was called Cheetah? I also had a Corgi model of the Daktari Land Rover (which I imagine is why you mention Daktari) with its Zebra camouflage. The Warden, Hedley, drove a Landy in the show. For those who don't know, Daktari is 'doctor' in Swahili.
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An American Safari series set in Africa with Americans as the leading people. I have rarely seen Americans in Africa, and none doing what they did.
@@johnburns4017 Yes. Like many movies from that era...ebtertaining yet wildly inaccurate. I have a friend who went to into military service after watching John Wayne in " The Green Berets". All these years later we are careful never to mention that movie. So sad.
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I know a guy who joined the British paras after watching _A Bridge Too Far._ He loved it, ending up in a special forces unit.
After he left I told him the film was highly inaccurate with a lot fiction and key events missed out. He said if he knew that he would never have joined. But he did and loved it. Lucky for him.
I owned a 2A 109 with a 2.25 litre diesel and a Fairey overdrive. Right hand drive with no power anything. You didn’t need a battery as it was mechanical diesel and you could hand crank it.
It also had a PTO to the rear, it was basically a 11 passenger station wagon, 3 in the front and 8 in the rear. A real work horse.
After religiously watching all jays garage vids im becoming quite astute at pinpointing when one of jays guests starts to annoy him😂
Or which joke/story he is about to tell.
I thought his calling it a "car" a bit odd yet I remember some folks, depending on where they grew up, call all vehicles a "car'. A great show nonetheless.
The guest is unwatchable
Best kind of segment...SOOOOOO cool. Both Jay and owner are having a great time
All Land Rover windshields folded down in that era, even the hardtops. You could remove the hardtop by taking out a few bolts, doing the same with the top half of the doors, and folding the windshield down. I did that with mine a couple of times.
There are not many 32-minute videos on RUclips that I will watch the whole thing, but this was one!
Other interesting British ‘jeeps’ was the Austin Gypsy, that looked like a Land Rover with a different front (and that did have a Rolls Royce engine, same as the luxury Vandam Plas Princess) and the gorgeous Austin Champ. There was also South African, Dutch and Spanish variants of the Land Rover, each with their own slight differences.
My first experience driving a Land Rover was while working for Shell Oil in Oman in the 1970's. That was a Series III station wagon. My Dutch driving instructor told me "wherever you're going, you should always drive as fast as possible. It doesn't make it any more comfortable, but the journey is over more quickly". I currently live in Thailand and drive a 1964 Series IIA SWB soft top (ex Royal Thai Air Force). It's a fun vehicle.
One thing that could be easily tested by just doing a compression test is that some in that era were fitted with over thick head gaskets to lower the compression ratio thus allowing for the use of very low octane (70?) fuel, at the expense of horsepower. Replacing with a thinner head gasket, and re-adjusting the valves could give a few more HP.
As a series 3 owner for 15 years I absolutely adore my 88 unbelievably good off road hard to drive. I’ll keep mine till my end
As cool and interesting as the hyper cars, ultra exotics are, and etc I enjoy these just as much.
I have always wanted an older land Rover. I spent a lot of time the Congo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Central African Rep. and Dem Rep of Congo (when it was still Zaire) I would have loved a 90's Defender but ended up with one of the Last year Land Rover Discovery Series II's that was built in UK. 1999. I remembered seeing them all decked out in yellow in the Camel Trophy events and in the Paris Dakar Rally with racks and brush guards. I loved it, but it was quirky. If I could get one of these older styles Id swap it out with a Cummins BT4 or an inline Six gasser and more modern 5 speed manual. I love the look of this Land Rover.. Id do it up like a Rhodesian Bush War Land Rover.... Very cool Land Rover.
Wow, your extensive knowledge of the British Army and Land Rovers is impressive! 🙌 It's fascinating to hear about the specific features and modifications of the SIII FFR vehicles. Your insights shed light on the history and functionality of this military spec Land Rover. Thanks for sharing your expertise and adding valuable context to the discussion! 🚙🔧🇬🇧
Pity his knowledge, is far from the truth! For a start this L R is a military vehicle not a car, for any L R to be designated as FFR it has to have a 24 volt electrical system. The use of Pink Paint, was first used on ships, then vehicles, nothing to do with Sand, but the optical effect of distinguishing objects , in certain sunlight conditions, to fuel the vehicle, it is not necessary to remove any seat, but simply, turn the seat cushion ,up much in the way as a cinema seat.
L R s were only manufactured after WW2 so were never used by the SAS , in North Africa the vehicle of choice for desert use (WW2 )was a modified Chevrolet,
Brit here who has lived in the US for 17 years. US/UK passports and septic wife. Land Rover is almost SACRED to the Brits, so any disrespect could cause another war, which, without the French this time, we would win... I saw a review 40 years ago that said that gear change was "agricultural".... Alex knows his stuff...
The vehicle, if it is origional, should not have a centre differential just a transfer box. The central differential came in with the permenant 4 wheel drive coil sprung versions. Nice looking vehicle. My daily driver is a 1982 series 3 which I have used for over 25 years.
I was looking to see if anyone corrected that yet. Surprising the owner doesn’t know it does not have a center differential.
And the stage 1
Three colour coded gear levers if I recall. was it black, for the gear selector, then yellow and red, for 4WD(which was NOT to be used on sealed surfaces) and the Hi-Lo selector.(I cant remember which colour referred to each function btw)?
@@marcusgault9909 yellow push down lever for 4 wheel drive, red pull back lever for low ratio.
The best thing about an FFR is you could run a BV (Boiling Vessel) off it. Boiling water on tap would make you very popular on a cold exercise.
The hum of the offroad tyres on the roads was great.
Learned to drive an past my test in series 2A…….long wheel base… terrible lock….. you need 3 acres to turn round…. I think Jay found that out😝….. my favourite was the early Lightweights…(air portable)😉
I've been a big wrap for em' but have to admit there was something appealing about that old Land Rover . Thanks to both of you .
very cool! reminds me of the days of Daktari and the Matchbox by Lesney Rovers of my childhood. Very enjoyable episode. Cheers!
So much character, every Series Land Rover has a personality, and they are all different!
That is a 2.25l 4 cylinder. The FFR vehicles are 24 volt. The 109" military units are called as 1 ton units. The windscreen hinge is common to all series Land Rovers.
bit of a correction, FFR were 12 volt vehicles with a 24 volt generator separately for the radio batteries.
@@ZoomStranger Well they weren't when I worked there at the end of series 3 production, all the electrical systems were 24 volt, including the ignition systems, which that vehicle does not have, nor does it have the military spec. carb and intake.
@@ZoomStranger All the FFRs I've seen (including mine) were 24V electrics (2x 12V batteries between the seats) but had an additional pair of 24V batteries in the rear, behind the bulkhead, for the radios.
@@Grahame59 thanks - mine is an Australian FFR and has a box between the seats for admin I'd guess - it's pretty handy. I could be wrong about the separate 24v but mine was always 12v, the radio gear was stripped out of it at Auction I think, but I was under the impression it's radio batteries were in the rear under the radios. I am the second owner after the Army, thanks again.
@@ZoomStranger Many have been converted to 12V after leaving the army so that normal bulbs, accessories (sat nav, radio, etc) can be fitted. I guess the army's and civilian priorities differ somewhat!
I worked on these a little as an apprentice electrician in the early 1980s. UK MOD had 10s of 1000s of them. This looks like an ex UK MOD vehicle. Most of the engines were a 2.3L 4 cylinder. I've never seen a straight 6 personally. If you can find the UK MOD license plate number, you may be able to find out more about the vehicle's history. The format at that time was 11AB22. In other words, two digits-two letters-two two digits. It's good to see one again. You are fortunate it's not one of the full radio fitted ones that had a 12V electrical system for the vehicle and a second 24V alternator with batteries behind the front seats. They also had screened ignition. They were a pain and the radio batteries were prone to shorting out when the wiring got old.
Great car, great owner, great conversation… love it!
I own one of these, use it as a daily driver out in Cyprus, genuinely the best car I’ve ever driven. Bulletproof and it’ll go anywhere you can take it, not to mention it looks awesome
That vehicle does definitely not have a centre differential as standard, hence why you can't drive them in 4WD on hard surfaces without them binding up.... centre diffs first came out in early Range Rovers in 1971, 109 stage 1 V8 and early 110s in the early 1980s where first production vehicles Land-rover sold with centre diffs...... all fun vehicles to own if you like learning mechanics and the best vehicles to learn to drive in
These had a transfer box that took the drive from the gearbox to the front and rear diffs. The transfer box had no differential mechanism so the transmission could get "wound up" if driving on non slippery surfaces.
I love vintage Land Rovers! This one is a true original! The only thing missing on this Landy is a dent in the door from where a rhino hit it during a safari!
As much talking as he does, I think this guy has been into his own coffee stash.
He confused a four pot with a six pot engine for start so I suspect he's mixing his "coffee" with some sort of hallucinagen
Dave Atell sure knows a lot about Land Rover. I had no idea.
Plenty in New Zealand, V8s though. NZ army used them, though I note your steering wheel is on the wrong side.
9:09 Sorry mate but I drove the Series 3 for a snow season down here, unless it's been very modified, there is no full time 4x4. Yes it's part time 4x4 and you need to be VERY careful with it. If you go from snow or ice to dry bitumen and forget to change back to 4x2 you will snap the front short axle like a carrot. 9:42 Sounds like a Range Rover power divider to me.
A lovely vehicle to drive and great steering. At the time (on the mountain) they were being phased out by the 47 series Landcruiser with the old 2H motor, they carried 12 passengers as opposed to 10 as well as climb hills that the old Landy wouldn't even look at. I reckon it came down to the old saying "It outlived its usefulness" just like me and many more. LOL.
Whoa! That's not a 2.6L six, it's a 2.25L four. How can the owner not know the difference? The 2.6L is an F-head engine and has a sidedraft carb on the other side of the engine. Plus, only four plugs and wires which should be readily visible to both men. He didn't get too much wrong on the basic history of Land Rover but this is a HUGE faux pas!
saw it too! How badly can tou know your own vehicle...
Also :" an other tell tell sign of it's military history is the folding windshield" -> all s3 had folding windshield.....
@@thibaultdubaret9863 Sadly, I stopped watching at about the halfway point.
100% he messed up when talking about the engine and that's gunna be easily pointed out by anyone in the UK too.
It started downhill as soon as Jay said it was a street grab - but the guy lives in Colorado - is a CEO - and previously brought on his Porche - ... just not really like the previous down to earth street grabs.
Clueless. Air breather tube not connected, so the red Moab dust is being sucked straight into the carb. This whole vid is cringe-worthy for a real Landy owner who isn't just a pretentious show-off.
I love this video. He was honest about the short comings and the strengths.
Mikel