I dropped the lost coins of in Fremantle ( that's a whole different story ) and spotted a 2004 Landrover Discovery for sale for $10,500.
I gave it the once over and got the price down to $9500 in crisp new $50 notes.
My first petrol 4wd and it goes like the clappers :)
I need an automatic because of my dodgy arm anyway.
There are more buttons and gadgets in this thing than a Jumbo jet :laugh2:.
Nice looking car and bloody comfortable :)
DO NOT PRESS THE AC BUTTON!!! It will put you in contact with AirTraffic Control :D
Hehehe
It will probebly take me a week to work out all the gizmo's.
It was one of those "spur of the moment" buys and I have to leave it in Perth and get one of the guys to drive it the 500 k's to Geraldton for me 4 to 5 hrs is a bit much for me to drive at the moment:(
All is good, it will give me a week to tell Mrs trout I blew nearly 10 grand on a toy :angel:
I have a soft spot for Landys. I used to have a Mk 2 Short wheel base hardtop. Had a Holden 179 S4 (factory twin carbs.) motor, upgraded axles and a Fairy overdrive. Fitted radial tyres as soon as they became available in a suitable size -this was around 1980- and that did actually make a big difference to handling..
Mainly used for towing a V8 ski boat; would do that comfortably at around 60mph (about 100km/h) and return 26mpg (that's -grab calculator and punch some buttons- just under 11 litres per 100km). Must admit the roof edge channels did leak in the rain and drip water on your lap when cornering (never did get around to unbolting the roof and replacing the rubber sealing strips).
Anyway, trout, I am sure your Discovery is far superior and will give you years of pleasure.
Hello,
I hope you get a good run out of it. Now for the ironic trivia, LR had their 50 years of production do in Adaminaby. It has a Giant fiberglass Trout in the Park !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaminaby
Quote from: 'Coiny Chris' pid='73278' dateline='1432845936'Hello,
I hope you get a good run out of it. Now for the ironic trivia, LR had their 50 years of production do in Adaminaby. It has a Giant fiberglass Trout in the Park !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaminaby
Crikey I buy 1 car and i get "immortalized " :laugh2: :)
It is quite a "pretty" car and it has heaps of gadgets in it, Way flasher than my old Nissan ute, Cant wait to get it out bush and scratch her up :angel:
Hello,
I can see a new Avatar coming......... The new Museum is very good, a few old cars from the scheme and other interesting stuff. I will see if I can find some Pics.
Quote from: 'Coiny Chris' pid='73282' dateline='1432848106'Hello,
I can see a new Avatar coming......... The new Museum is very good, a few old cars from the scheme and other interesting stuff. I will see if I can find some Pics.
Cool
OK, I can see how you went down south to buy coins and ended up with a vehicle :scratch_one-s_head:
So now there are a mob of mystified coin sellers who thought it was going to be Christmas :grin:
Pedro
ha ha pedro
very true
i'm sitting here thinking ... coins ... car .. coins .. car ????
yeah i'll go with Trout and take the car
but having said that he has $500 left over and for someone like myself - i'd still be going home with stacks of (raw) coins
Mechanics don't like Landrovers. If they see one driving up the road
they quickly close their gates. :)
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='73287' dateline='1432851106'ha ha pedro
very true
i'm sitting here thinking ... coins ... car .. coins .. car ????
yeah i'll go with Trout and take the car
but having said that he has $500 left over and for someone like myself - i'd still be going home with stacks of (raw) coins
All is good RG
I'll just get some more money out of the bank :)
your bank is far bigger than mine possum
good luck for you too
$50,000,000 would be even better!!!
a woman here in canberra won $50,000,000 today on a $5.55 lotto quickpick ticket ... darn it it wasn't me!!!! didn't even have a ticket - I was looking at the sign the other night but the line at the counter was too log so I left ... ahh life's regrets as I often get a cheapie quickpick
the winner had only been in Australia for 10 years too
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='73307' dateline='1432884083'your bank is far bigger than mine possum
good luck for you too
$50,000,000 would be even better!!!
a woman here in canberra won $50,000,000 today on a $5.55 lotto quickpick ticket ... darn it it wasn't me!!!! didn't even have a ticket - I was looking at the sign the other night but the line at the counter was too log so I left ... ahh life's regrets as I often get a cheapie quickpick
only been in Australia for 10 years too
Stuff waiting in lines Robbiegal. Play online.
Just checked my online account...no winnings this time. :(
on-line?
really?
oh dear - I fear I would become a real gambler then
so I go to the tatts lotto website ... hummm .... might have a little peek
Hello,
No luck finding the Pics I wanted. I will take more next chance. http://www.remlr.com/Archive/swb/ann.html Now the Link says it was in Cooma, but a 4x trader Mag said Adaminaby. I was there and saw all the Landy's so maybe there was a group run there. Adaminaby like Jindabyne were towns moved for the Snowy Scheme. They even moved a stone church from what I have read. Very interesting history up that way, not that WA doesn't have its own share !
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='73307' dateline='1432884083'your bank is far bigger than mine possum
good luck for you too
$50,000,000 would be even better!!!
a woman here in canberra won $50,000,000 today on a $5.55 lotto quickpick ticket ... darn it it wasn't me!!!! didn't even have a ticket - I was looking at the sign the other night but the line at the counter was too log so I left ... ahh life's regrets as I often get a cheapie quickpick
the winner had only been in Australia for 10 years too
:yahoo: your rich according to the TV yesterday saying canberras houses are very expensive with the average price being over $1,000,000 so sell sell sell..think of all those coins you could get with that RG :angel:
are you serious?
I was reading the local paper yesterday and the average price in Canberra house was ....
"In April, Canberra home-buyers forked out an average of $530,000 to purchase a home"
I think some media outlets try to make out that Canberra is full of fat cats
Nah - those ones are all up on Capital Hill making our lives a misery and we pay them to do it too
there was something on ABC news a few days ago but I can't find it, stupid net :dash1: Yeah there's a lot of hype around when there shouldn't be.
Hello,
There is an oversupply of Units and Townhouses. They may have dropped slightly over the last couple of years. With Jobs leaving it will stay this way for a while.
I recon the houses in Canberra must cost a bomb to build.
you would need a semi trailer full of insulation in them to keep from freezing to death :laugh2:
Forgot to take any piccies of the inside :dash1:
Anyway found some piccies of my Jalopy on my phone :ok:
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/discovery~0.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/discovery1~0.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/discovery2~0.jpg)
who needs an over priced house when you have a shiny land rover to live in
you could raise a family in that car!
yeah Chris - there are a million unit blocks being built around here and I keep thinking - are all the sacked public servants going to be able to afford the rent?
my hubby's work place is shrinking on a daily basis
almost every night he tells me about who just lost their job today
heartbreaking really
sorry Jim
off topic I know
Frosts here in Albury and the wind off the Snowy Mountains has a real chill to it
well Troutski could camp out in the snow in his new wheels
our -4 nights are keeping me at home as well, with the heather pumped up
I have added extra straw in the hen house for the chooks too!!
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='73786' dateline='1433329465'well Troutski could camp out in the snow in his new wheels
Snow! This is W.A. you're talking about, we don't see snow.
It's winter here and the minimum is 14C and the max is 23C.
Beautiful one day, perfect the next. :)
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='73786' dateline='1433329465'our -4 nights are keeping me at home as well, with the heater pumped up
I have added extra straw in the hen house for the chooks too!!
Hello,
Great weather for camping out. Landy's played a part in the Snowy scheme as did Land Cruisers. Theisse who were contractors brought them out and were the Aussie distributors until Toyota became the one organization in I think the late 70's. At least the days are nice when the nights are clear / cold.
Quote from: 'Coiny Chris' pid='73793' dateline='1433365203'. Landy's played a part in the Snowy scheme as did Land Cruisers. Theiss who were contractors brought them out and were the Aussie distributors until Toyota became the one organization in I think the late 70's.
Yeah,some great books & heaps of Info. on the Net. about vehicles used in the Snowy. The Land Rovers kept breaking axles and sometimes Diffs.,(many of which ended up as concrete reinforcing),the Poms. sent out an Engineer to try and find out why after Les Thiess told them what he thought of their product,eventually he gave up and was looking at the 4WD Nissans they built for the Indian Army but ended up trialing the Toyota and so started the first major overseas market for Jap. Cars & Trucks.
I used to own one of the first Nissans, I had a G60 Short Wheel Base model .
Built like a brick outhouse and could go anywhere with its thumping big 6cyl petrol engine.
Bloody uncomfortable to drive due to the cramped space between you and that huge steering wheel .
I had this as my main fishing vehicle for a few years until it rusted to death.
Nothing wrong mechanically the body simply rusted apart :cray:
interesting piece of landrover/snowy mountains history Basil
I left the car with one of my Mates in Perth last week because I didn't have the doctors OK to drive.
He is bringing it up to Geraldton for me tomorrow and I have booked him a flight home in the afternoon as I have now got the go ahead from my doc :yahoo:
Jeez it will be nice not to have to hassle Mrs Trout every time I need to go somewhere
I wouldn't let you on the road :mocking:
Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='73943' dateline='1433489097'I wouldn't let you on the road :mocking:
Maaaate, I'm armless :laugh2:
:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: your mad, but I love it and can't talk :)
reminds me of an old joke...
hitchiker , has a stutter, one arm and one leg
driver pulls up and says..
"hello hello hello
you look armless
hhop in"
:angel: yeah yeah its a dad joke
Quote from: 'trout' pid='73946' dateline='1433490192'Quote from: 'ausjack' pid='73943' dateline='1433489097'I wouldn't let you on the road :mocking:
Maaaate, I'm armless :laugh2:
Probably been known to get legless too :)
Hello,
The Landy was only a temp. thing to raise money after the war, it used an 80 inch wheelbase, same as the Jeep. GP General Purpose is how it was named. As there was a steel shortage the body of the Landy was Aluminium which had been made for Aircraft industry which was now in abundance. The Pom's also exported farm machinery to do the same. Australia is the home for this stuff, because of the cost to remove it was left in fields when its time was up. In the UK most was scrapped.
I prefer Jap. 4WD's, but let us look at the Rangie. It was decades ahead of its time. Came out in 1967, Coil suspension and all wheel drive V8. Same as all the big names now. Even the styling of the original one is still OK nearly 50 years later. They got it right and left it alone ! Going from 2 door to 4 door was about the only major change in decades.
Does anyone remember the Film " The Gods must be crazy " ? There were many funny scenes based around the Landy. My info is from memory, so if there is an error here please Post an update.
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Does anyone remember the Film " The Gods must be crazy " ? There were many funny scenes based around the Landy. My info is from memory, so if there is an error here please Post an update.
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sure do ... one of the funniest movies at the time
just the sound of the landy idling was good... and the scene where he had to open the gate with no brakes and the landy rolled down the hill :laughingneqw::laughingneqw: and back
Hello,
What about the winch ! Both Films were good, although the clumsiness was over-done in the second. Yellow Beard was another of the era I liked, although it was considered a flop . It mixed British and American humour, which most didn't get. Here in Aus, we know both though.
Quote from: 'runway' pid='73719' dateline='1433252419'Frosts here in Albury and the wind off the Snowy Mountains has a real chill to it
we were up at Blackbutt on top of the mountain last week for 3 nights ,,
wed night -5 , Thursday and Friday night - 4 very cold even in front
of the fire , glad to get back home sat afternoon
Man that's just way too cold for me sorry, I'd die :(
I got a light bar, a 2 way and a GPS for the grumpy old one armed farts bus. :yahoo:;
Now all I need is 2 good hands to install the bloody things, Jeeze what was I thinking :dash1:
I just had a set of Yokohama ATS tyres fitted to the landy, I donated the pretty much brand new road tyres to my daughter for her car and saved her over $1000 :good:
There is nothing wrong with the tyres I took off but I consider road tyres on a 4WD is pretty much the same as wearing ballet shoes to a rugby match :angel:
With the new tyres fitted I took the car into the sand hills for the first time and the first thing I noticed is that the car is permanent 4WD .
The only selection available on the transfer box is High , Neutral, Low with a diff lock option in both High and Low.
I didn't even look like getting bogged :yahoo:
I have owned many 4WD cars (we have 3 parked in the yard now) including a lovely little Toyota Surf that I loved to drive but blew the motor in :cray:
The Disco is pretty much a Surf on Steroids with more "Creature Comforts" , I am pretty happy with this vehicle so far :)
Hello,
You have an " all wheel drive " like the first Rangie rather than a 4 WD then ( by definition ). The Center Diff is the difference between the two. This is to avoid axle wind up ( I am sure you know that ) I find it funny watching some young bloke with a welded diff making a tight turn, I wonder what will break first, the axle or diff. An LSD or locker is the solution for them. I had a locker in my Rocky, bit of a pain on sealed roads though.
Seems rather appropriate that I am looking for my first car now. Going for a Mitsubishi FTO.
Quote from: 'oh my florin' pid='75762' dateline='1437201683'Seems rather appropriate that I am looking for my first car now. Going for a Mitsubishi FTO.
I can still remember my first car.
It was a second hand EK Holden station wagon I picked up for $100 at Young's Motor's in Geraldton back in 1971.
It had all the bells and whistles , a heater and a radio were as good as it got back then , I loved it and thought that I was " as flash as a rat with a gold tooth" driving that around :yahoo:
I think I polished most of the paint off that car, for a 17 year old kid back then $100 was an absolute bloody fortune :angel:
two tone by any chance?
Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='75772' dateline='1437220746'two tone by any chance?
of course :)
i'm pretty sure that I learnt to drive with the family HR sedan - on dirt roads mind you
Quote from: 'trout' pid='75773' dateline='1437220812'Quote from: 'robbiegal' pid='75772' dateline='1437220746'two tone by any chance?
of course :)
Haha considering how mechanics/panel beaters charge $85 an hour just in labour you could have made a killing :P
Well after a lot of swearing and barked knuckles I have finaly managed to fit the light bar to my Disco.
Fitting the bar itself was a bit fiddly and installing the fuse and relay was pretty straight forward.
Getting the control wiring into the cab was a bloody nightmare, there isn't a great deal of room in the dash of a disco but I persevered and got the job done :yahoo:
Now all I have to do is await darkness so I can check it out :angel:
Technically, in W.A., lights have to be fitted in pairs, so a light bar does not meet the law.
At work we have just been instructed to sell them in pairs.
I believe they are reviewing this law and cops seem to ignore it anyway.
The new bars have 2 spotties and a floodlight fitted to the same unit.
Of course at work they recommend fitting two of these, double the profit :dodgy:
Hello,
The rules have not kept up with technology. I doubt a Cop would give you a ticket, but I have heard that some say to put some black tape in the middle. 2 lights !
I got up early this morning and tried the lights out.
Those light bars are AWSOME :yahoo:
Involved with Car Rallies over the years and the last i heard some National Transport mob were trying to get uniform road rules for extra driving lights,previously every State had different regulations.Not sure if an agreement has been reached,i'll chase it up one of these days.
Yes, national rules for vehicle modifications has been on the agenda for years. Every state and territory agrees that it is desirable and all the others just have to align with them (true).