I wasn't sure where to post, but decided this would be the most likely spot. Yesterday I travelled up the New England hwy to Bendemeer a small town along the hwy that connects Sydney with Brisbane via the inland route over the New England ranges, hopefully I will be able to insert a short clip showing the traffic congestion that we have here in Oz, it's horrendous on most daze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDld1VUfdmo&feature=youtu.beOn arrival it was plain to see that the Land Rover was well represented, with about 30 or so vehicles ranging from early Series 1 to 110 Ex-military & Range Rover & Discovery.
This line up of Series 1's was my first port of call
the L/R with all the steel hanging off it was a real eye opener, it has the std engine which ran a hydraulic pump mounted out front which ran all the things on it, through this control valve in the cab
the owner did demonstrate the boring bit and it was stabilised by the ram mounted in the back
The old Bendemeer garage Land Rover was there as well, it used to be used for breakdowns on the 'Moonbi Range', it would push the cars to the top of the range using the front bumper bar with an old tyre attached to the bar
the current owner is doing some minor restoration on it, but his work is way too slow for my way of thinking, here is another image of the Series 1's
they were all bog standard, no engine changes.
Some of the other ex-military Land Rovers there are 4 110 variants shown, the closest one is a RFSV i.e. Regional Force Surveillance Vehicle, it has all manner of bolt on/off items that can be added, the others were FFR's
There were 156 Fergie tractors registered for the event, they had a parade through the town, Land Rovers included
there was one modified tractor it had a Ford V8 sidevalve engine fitted, why?? who knows, here is a very short clip of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PvckRR-L2w&feature=youtu.bealso showing were a few Standard Vanguards and 1 Std 10
this panel van had a TV screen and was playing a video of Fergies being assembled in Coventry, that was interesting looking @ OH&S aspects of it LOL
there was a shearing demo for kids
also this machine made in 1896 for doing something with Corn
there were cut a way transmission/diff's etc
and this little 51 model Land Rover for sale, it was reasonably straight nothing missing from it, chassis in very good order (for a farm vehicle used in dry rocky conditions) it ran quite well, no brakes, all electrics appeared to work and all instruments present
the interior
all for the princely sum of $1,600Au = 874pounds approx., shame I have a Series 1 under construction.
This S1 had UK plates on it, but I don't think they would have been original, I did not see the owner to ask
anyway that was my day yesterday all up a round trip of of approx. 690k's, cheers Dennis