I’d love to find a manual, gems 4.0 version with the non digital climate controls. Manual seats too if they made them. The most plebeian version of a p38 possible.
Owned 4; series 2 series 3 discovery 1 freelander 1 and I will never own a land-rover again each time I truly believed the reliability; oil leaks; rattles and water leaks had been resolved. I was wrong.
Few times have successfully used a P38 ( 16" BFG ATs) to recover my stuck L322 TDV8 (18" GG ATs) out of wet muddy fields (using 12 ton kinetic Snatch rope 🙄) P38 towing hard in harsh muddy conditions, can run rings round L322 terrain response system , in my experience 🫣 same scenario my P38 has recovered my tweaked td5 230 bhp 90 defender 🤷 & me brothers land cruiser all which came to recover the stuck L322 😆🙈
I've had 3 TDV8s 😵💫 an early tweeked td6 🫣 and 2 4.4 V8 lpg 🙃 but they all rot boxes 😥 That's why i prefer a well sorted P38 as my daily workhorse...... P38s don't rot out 🇬🇧👍
I’ve never seen this one… nice! It’s a shame Land Rover is 180 degrees off from what it used to be and they’ve forgotten the EXACT things that made them famous in the first place. Also, after having watched this entire thing…. Dayum…. This would have been EXPENSIVE to produce back in the day. I wonder who/how the original audience would have seen this. Great bit of film.
@@nw8000 Laurie Mayer was a BBC presenter for the news up until 2002. Veronica Hicks (who did the translation in the first few minutes) I can’t find much information about. There are other famous presenters featured later on, for example when they are talking about the first vehicle off the production line, that was a famous BBC presenter in the 1980s Des Lynham.
Ahh the Series three, I drove from the artic to the desert and every kind of terrain you can think of in my Forces career. Splendid bus. I recall a REME Mech making a cylinder head gasket out of lino to get us home once. Superb Bus.
Drove my favourite white P38 4.6 ( lpg) back from Geneva all the way in LOW range The autoroutes were closed therefore had to use back roads because the snow was 6-900 mm deep ( 2-3 ft) Nothing was moving , just my P38 on BFG A/Ts Lot of people were taking pictures of my white P38 driving through the deep snow all the way to Calais ( 15 mile queue for ferry) Because...................... It was also towing a triaxial 20 ft trailer 😆🇬🇧👍😆
Ha! the LandRover: It had its good points - e.g., no rust. Good gearbox. Handling was very good for a high ground-clearance bush-basher 4-wheel drive. When it came out it pretty much had the market for itself. But when the Toyota Landcruiser came out with a four-speed gearbox, it was clearly very much better and LandRover sales dropped way down. We have a lot of sand in Australia. The LandRover didn't have enough power for sand, even with the larger engine, so you had to go in first gear, wasting too much time. There was a six-cylinder option, but it didn't seem to have any more power than the 4-cyl engine. A company I once worked for did a lot of remote work and had a fleet of LandRovers. Typical of British products, the quality was none too good. I remember going to pick up a brand new Rover from the dealer, and it had about a 15 degree lean, because the factory had fitted incorrect or defective springs on one side. The aluminium body was not strong enough for seat belts, so Rover anchored the sash upper mount on a steel member below shoulder height, rendering it useless. Noise and vibration at highway speeds was terrific. Rover engines when hot would keep going after you turned the ignition off. Company policy was to select top gear, apply brakes, and let out the clutch, thereby stalling the engine. However I discovered that you could stall it just by suddenly flooring the accelerator. Broken differentials were not unusual. I remember having to drive a company LandRover 600 km back to civilisation on the highway on the front diff because the rear diff had failed. There was no air choke on the carby. Instead, pulling out the "Cold Start" control activated an extra jet. The engine would always start, but in temperatures at or below freezing it could take a while. You needed to always be sure to have a healthy battery before going out in the desert. In theory you could start it with crank handle, but without a choke, you would not succeed in low temperatures. When the Rover engines wore out, they were way too expensive to rebuild, so a popular option was to buy a rebuilt Holden Red motor (6 cylinder) and fit that instead. A couple of companies made adapters so you could attach the Rover gearbox to the Holden engine. The Holden engine gave greater power AND better fuel consumption! Those Rover engines sure were inefficient and thirsty! After some driver complaints about the seatbelts and a few other things, the company wrote to Rover in England suggesting some improvements. The reply from Rover essentially said "if you don't like our LandRover, buy something else." So we switched to Toyotas. The early Toyota Land cruiser had only a 3-speed transmission. We told Toyota that wasn't good enough. They switched to 4-speed. And you could travel in second gear in sand where the Rover needed first gear, so you got to where you wanted about three times as fast..
MOT online history check from the English number plates I could read: YXC 482K, Land Rover Defender, MOT expired 29/12/14, 41,077 miles in 2013, first registered 02/02/72. AAN 726G, Land Rover 88, no MOT history, first registered 06/05/69. HUE 166, Land Rover 1, MOT expires 12/09/24, miles since 2006 88, first registered 17/01/49. BXC 796L, reg. plate not recognised. LEU 9K, Land Rover Discovery HSE, MOT expires 30/07/25, 29,364 miles, first registered 30/01/20. PRL 237G, Land Rover Unknown, MOT unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 01/01/69. VXC 940K, Land Rover 109, MOT unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 20/10/71. WXC 897F, Land Rover Unknown, MOT unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 06/02/68. GXC 324G, Land Rover 109, MOT unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 02/06/69. RHO 927G, Land Rover 109, MOT 01/05/25, mileage 186, first registered 01/05/69. FPP 373K, reg. plate not recognised. EVK 909K, reg. plate not recognised. 216 CWK, Land Rover, MOT expired 01/09/16, mileage 16,793, first registered 01/01/69. XBD 921, Land Rover Unknown, MOT unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 23/11/60. 4 VDH, reg. plate not recognised. GJU 354, Land Rover Unknown, mileage unknown, first registered 22/07/50. BAD 8979, reg. plate not recognised. 🙂
