How Australian ingenuity improved Land Rover four-wheel drives for weekend explorers | ABC Australia

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While four-wheel drives are an everyday sight on Australian roads, 75 years ago they were a novelty.
But when the Land Rover arrived in the 1940s to help staff building the Snowy Mountains Scheme they became a necessity.
It was the start of an enduring love story as Landline's Tim Lee discovered in Victoria's high country.
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@MBCGRS 2 месяца назад

I think the biggest improvement to the Land Rover was Toyota.

@nate-tz8sx 2 месяца назад

Couldn't agree more

@khaledal-habib777 2 месяца назад

Legend car, you can't had enough of it. each Defender had their owned character.

@damolux3388 3 месяца назад

I'm amazed the ABC is even running this story, and not a story about EV's and 'climate change' 🥴

@arffadailey8055 2 месяца назад

Yes. & The pinkos @Thier ABC left the comments section open. Utterly amazing.Got something back for all the tax paid.

@rm6902 3 месяца назад

"95% of all Land Rovers ever built are still on the road today....the others made it home OK"

@alwynvanwyk1851 2 месяца назад

Jip, one of the oldest Land Rover jokes used by Land Cruiser owners... Move on, bro, I wrote the book on Landie jokes... Long live the Green Oval 💪🏻🇿🇦

@davidburchill9333 2 месяца назад

I got it noticed a Toyota Prado and a Ford Ranger. They must be the support vehicles (in case they break down, or is it when they break down?) 😂

@X50505 Месяц назад

@@davidburchill9333 Peasants joke

@rotorrover1033 Месяц назад

It's actually a Harley Davidson joke

@brianmackenzie5692 3 месяца назад

My second vehicle was a 1959 Series 2 SWB Landrover (purchased in the early 70s). It appeared to have had a rugged life and it was only just before scrapping it did we find the Snowy Mountains Authority stickers on the doors (under a "newer" paint scheme). Certainly explained its condition.

@janolopez7436 2 месяца назад

Awesome video ✌

@FishplateFilms 2 месяца назад

What a great episode ! Always good to see a Defender on the road. Still on my second Discovery , now 20 yrs old and I'm hoping to convert it to EV in the distant future? I drive modern 4wds' for work . but none drive as well or feel the same as the Disco. Cheers Gregg.

@agoodlife2 3 месяца назад

5 days in the shop 2 on the road, typical Land Rover most unreliable vehicle on the road

@FishplateFilms 2 месяца назад

I disagree...I've had my Disco for 20 yrs and It's never let me down. If you service them and know what to look for, they are reliable cars. Though I wouldn't buy a new one or anything after about 2010. . Gregg.

@johncunningham4820 3 месяца назад

Yeah , the Early Diffs were a Rover CAR Diff . They were forever snapping Half-shafts . OR stripping Drive blocks . The Salisbury Diff was a VAST improvement .

@pauls8456 3 месяца назад

I wonder if they will let Ineos Grenadier owners in? ;)

@mattluszczak8095 3 месяца назад

Any make can join land rover club

@peterbrett5231 3 месяца назад

The LROCV welcomes everyone. There is also a Grenadier Club in Victoria.

@jwtfpv8957 2 месяца назад

Great to see a positive story with people working together. Please ABC can we have more?

@kateotoole6690 2 месяца назад

Let’s Hope They Do The Toyota Land Cruiser Next!

@luimackjohnson302 3 месяца назад

Amazingly Spectacular! Thank you for sharing this video. Range Rovers & Land Rovers are a Class on their own! I own 3 Classic Range Rovers & two classic Jaguas in Port Moresby & in Madang, and need some work to get them going again. There is no other 4 wheel drive like Range Rovers! Greetings from Madang, Papua New Guinea!

@calamarininjabeast5866 3 месяца назад

My grandfather drove a series 1 around western Queensland for his work, my dad had discoveries and now I drive Toyota 79 series 😃

@darcieedmunds2370 3 месяца назад

Utter aussie bs 😂

@Visionery1 2 месяца назад

I wonder what these chaps think of the Landcruiser.

@Truth... 2 месяца назад

We are forever Landyists. But the early To¥ota Land Cruisers were cool.

@Steve-od6hi 2 месяца назад

Interesting, from a Long time Jeep'r.

@samartz 3 месяца назад

The sad thing is the newer land rovers are more of a Prahran truck these days…

@barryross8382 3 месяца назад

I remember when we got the defenders in the Army, The brass were worried we wouldn't be able to drive the coil over setup without rolling.

@Motumatai3 2 месяца назад

The trial version of the Perentie did actually have the front axle panhard rod in the wrong location, resulting in a propensity to roll if hitting a hole when turning left at speed. They moved the panhard rod across a tad and fixed that issue.

@bcgraham3512 2 месяца назад

A friend of mine who lived in Kenya told me that when the Defenders with the coil-over arrived the roll-overs became a big thing, which they hadn't been with the old leaf-spring suspension. That was his excuse, anyway.

@keith6360 3 месяца назад

Who owns the Orkney 90? Is the formerly the beast orkney? Would love to see more action videos of it. Nice to see old and new rovers get together.

@MegaSkypes 12 дней назад

Born in the uk Brought up with LandRover Still a proud LandRover owner 3 actually! 1976 Swb 1999 110 Td5 2011 D4 5.0 litre V8 Love my LandRover’s

@henryratajczak7806 Месяц назад

Only in a Series Land Rover it's just simply a way of life

@Arnold-um7zr 3 месяца назад

At 6:10 the wheel nuts are on backwards- the taper is supposed to go towards the wheel

@sharonpaterson-uu7bb 2 месяца назад

apparently the wheel nuts had a taper at each end

@alwynvanwyk1851 2 месяца назад

My 1957 Series 1 107 SW and 1960 Series 2 88" has tapered edges on both sides of the wheel nuts... Easy beazy, no confusion, solid grip... Smaller nuts and studs though. To change rims with a newer model, you need the bigger nut with the same smaller hole... Crazy, the British 😂

@Poppageno Месяц назад

The early wheels take a double ended 15/16" lug nut, the newer ones use a 1-1/16" single sided nut. Good eye though!

@jasonthomas4973 3 месяца назад

Got to love Australia 🇦🇺

@brycejames8770 2 месяца назад

The 110 landy was never called “PERENTIE “ it was the code name for the vehicle trials. Otherwise we have the Nissan Perentie, the Mercedes Perentie.

@kenvanlit402 3 месяца назад

ABC: YOU HAVE TO LET COMMENTS ON ALL YOUR RU-vid STUFF. SUCH AS JULIAN ASSANGE.

@nate-tz8sx 2 месяца назад

Convincing a land rover owner that theyre 4x4 is unreliable is like trying to convince a flat earther that the earth is round

@Razz9057 3 месяца назад

yea all fun and games... and then the Japanese arrived

@williamahshay1997 3 месяца назад

Great piece of journalism ABC.

@sharkkakirde1 2 месяца назад

But not Japanese Reliable,,is it?

@Salman-sc8gr 2 месяца назад

It was very short sighted of JLR to kill it off,now the Army uses Mercedes G wagen which is allmost a copy of the LR,just offered in many flavours a bare bones for army and a 6.3 Amg overkill for city show offs and mafioso.

@matthewkeith8605 2 месяца назад

Expected more about the Perentie with that title.

@harveysmith100 2 месяца назад

Not a mention of the brilliant Isuzu engine

@michelong75 2 месяца назад

🎉 great 👍

@English_Speaking_Fox 3 месяца назад

Well, there was a reason back then why Land Rovers weren’t trusted to get you safely home. And that reason is even more valid today! Great engineering ideas, awful execution.