We are farmers, first Land Rover was a 107 with wooden tray in the late 50’s. It replaced the Dodge Weapons Carrier and armour cut down and wooden tray fitted ford dingo v8 scout car before that. Had land rovers continually from then, virtually all series vehicles and recently defenders and perenties. Around 50 in total. We need them to perform off road, specifically to climb steep country in the Victorian high country and carry weight for bushfire fighting etc. We are very much a minority these days, as is quite clear from the way we get treated by governments and the government best buddy, the big bank, that produces nothing mind you, except for maybe dodgey financial advice. Most people live in the cities and this is what the Land Rover has evolved into. We call it a “Toorak Tractor” here in Victoria.
However, several years ago we got the v8 stage 1 tray on lpg stuck in a large creek bed. Had to leave it overnight. Amazingly, something we don’t see very often at all, happened over night, that being considerable rain upstream. Went over in the morning and all that was sticking out was the top of the truck cab. Anyway, dragged it out with the tractor. Drained all oil and fuel and away she went and still using it today. Had to replace the speedo.
Now the neighbour had a flash new machine, not much change out of $100k. It was on higher ground, but got enough water into the electrics to be stuffed, a write off. Rest my case.
