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for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 19:41
by 22-250jock
forgot this was on tonight
for all you landrover fans
channel 4 8.00-9.00 then again on channel 4plus1 at 9.00 till 10.00
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 19:43
by rodp
That's me gone at nine then. Thanks
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 20:42
by PESCA
The finished job was bloody lovely
George
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 21:11
by rodp
Nice, took me back to when I was 17 (44 years ago
) when I had my first 80"
Same colour, deep bronze green.
I don't think I've ever gone more than a few weeks since without a Land Rover product, how sad's that
I'm sure when they showed the head going on though it was an 8 valve head (2.1/4ltr), yet when Tom Shepard asked they said it was the side valve (original 2 ltr). Never mind, still a nice job (apart from the crappy welding on chassis)
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 21:42
by PESCA
I thought that Tom fella said "original side valve 1600" ?
George
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 21:47
by rodp
PESCA wrote:I thought that Tom fella said "original side valve 1600" ?
George
Think they'd gone to the two litre in 1950.
Just checked, early '51 they changed, I was a few months out
The head though looked like a overhead valve which would make it 2.1/4 . I only caught a glimpse of it as I was drinking coffee and the wife doesn't like me trying to do two things at once
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 27 Apr 2014, 21:58
by PESCA
Rod, it was a September 1950 with the chassis number 1-616-0400.
George
Re: for the love of cars
Posted: 28 Apr 2014, 06:29
by rodp
Checked quickly on google and it said "early in 51". I couldn't remember exactly and it goes to show you can't always trust google. Having said that, the site I looked at could have been referring to production dates, not release, which tends to be the way of dating changes.
They would obviously want to get rid of 1.6's before announcing 2ltr's.
There's quite a lot I forget nowadays as I get older, little things like dates of production etc. I suppose it's stuff I now think no longer important. When we used to repair / restore them for folk it was useful to know change over dates off the top of my head. We passed all our work on to AGS Land Rovers in the late nineties so it's been a while since I was "in the loop" and regularly talking LR. We now only do the very occasional one for folk and my son deals with that mostly.
We do still do the odd restoration of "peculiar" things for folk though