And You Thought You Needed a Landcruiser

Good morning Robin
New deep down you know that you would like to have a Landcruiser...

I'm with you Robin. If they're all the same as our boys LC200 we definitely don't need or want one. :-)
The old Dodge would be infintely better.
AlanH.

So........what has that clip got to do with Landcuisers?

Trolling I suspect

Oh No Alan don't destroy my illusions.

if I had one of Muzbrys deep down desires it would have been for a 200.

hi guys
you couldn't roll any of the modern ones onto the roof and then back onto to the wheels after falling on it's side the way they did in the video without having extensive extra damage air bags igniting and limp home mode syndrome etc
brings back fond memories of when I owned and drove a 1928 oldsmobile canvas top tourer for several years and thousands of km's
both on and off rd /bush excursions it was amazing where it could go with its 12 inch clearance and 20 inch x 4.5inch wide balloon type tyres and do 90miles an hr as well
and with the top and windscreen down it gave 360dgree un-interrupted vision for roo/rabbit/emu shooting
dry sand and/or mud and with such a low center of gravity some very happy memories indeed
cheers

@Jack, think you'll find it's just tongue in cheek. Could have said any modern 4wd.

Cheers

Mazcan - You were really only doing 50mph in the old '28 Olds - it just FELT like 90mph!! [;-)

I can remember the old man telling me how they had a near-new 4 cyl Chev on the one of the Stations in the Murchison in the early 1930's, and the bloke driving it, wound her up to 55mph across the Gascoyne plains.

The other blokes in the car were screaming at him to stop being a madman with this terrifying speed, or he would get them all killed!!

Cheers - Ron.

hi ron
I don't recall you being there !
I was in the car on my own with 2 other vehicles following
the risk and the thrill at the time was mine
I used to be a fast driver everywhere I went with some respect for all road conditions on the day and respected corners and loose gravel etc
I have great respect for speed limits these days and have never lost my licence or more than 2 demerit pts at once
i guess it was just an age thing back in the 60's that I fortunatley survived luckily without mishap unlike many others
some blokes smoked dope, some drank heavy, and some drove fast and quiet a few found the 3 evils didn't go together very well and left behind memories for loved ones
I guess not much has changed when one looks at the past and present its just on a larger scale
cheers barry

Read an interesting yarn many years ago about a group who drove the first vehicle from Toowoomba to Darwin in a Willys Knight.
They claimed it was a first?, following station tracks and stock routes. Some of the trip was via the (Ghan?) rail line to avoid impassable country.
The car was transported back to Brisbane by cargo ship.
I think the car was owned/sponsored by a Mr. Johnstone.
mike

I can recall back in the mid-1960's, they held the first off-road racing event in the Lancelin Dunes just North of Perth.

All these blokes turned up with some amazing creations - completely home built buggies with every feature under the sun, some powered by V8's and fitted with huge wheels.
Some blokes had utilised all VeeDub drivetrains with their well-known traction.

However - the bloke who won, and who ran rings around them all, was a bloke with a bog-standard petrol SWB Landrover just fitted with a set of wide tyres!