Caravan

[Scott]

Hello all.
We have to rethink her name Cobba. Penelope is just too hard to say.

Hummm , Think you needa series one landrover to  geta bit period correct there Scott .

Like the Landy below?
We did this one up a few years ago. The picture was even taken in the same spot. Well, close enough to the same spot. Actually looking at the pictures it is the same spot but the trees have grown.
The Landy would make a horrific tow vehicle. She's slow and bumpy and would shake the begeesus out of everything in the van and her.

The main tow vehicle will be the old Kingswood below below. She's even kinda colour matched already, which just happened to be a co-incidence, and has the comfort, V8 power, aircon, cruise and power steeering just like a new car. And she's got oodles of character.

I've worked out I can get Mandy Monitor and another small horizontal into the back of the Pajero to do a few shows and still have my comfortable bed and fridge and stove and table that's in the van. I could only get a small horizontal or a couple of small aircooled in the back of The Kingswood. The little Big Chief would be ideal to slip in and out.

I'll see if I can remember to take some snaps of the inside of the van today or tomorrow.

Cheers Scott

[cobbadog]

Love them both. Regie Rovers are almost bullet proof and can out perform many 4x4 off road. The Kingswood are another reliable vehicle with the comfort built in.

[Scott]

Love them both. Regie Rovers are almost bullet proof

Hello cobba.
No they're not. The reason we did this Landy up was as follows. We use this series 3 Landy mainly to go fishing up the beach and to launch the big boat and, henceforth, she was riddled with rust. One day we pulled the boat out of the water and when we got to the top of the ramp and over a speed bump the rear cross member fell out (with the towbar attached). We thought....Ooops. How do we get the boat home? About then we remembered the towbar on the front. So a quick about face and the boat trailer was on the front and off home we went like that. Backwards.

At about this time we thought we needed to do some work to the old girl to put the towbar back on but there was no metal left to weld the towbar on so the only option was a new second hand chassis.
A good series 2A chassis was found on a wreck out Texas way. It had never been registered and only ever used on the farm. It still had 2 original tyres on it. The other 2 tyres were with the missing diff somewhere. At some stage someone, in their wisdom, used the old series 2A for target practice with the 22. It had two holes in a door and a hole through the firewall. Luckily the person needed either more target practice or more bullets.
We left the bullet hole in the 2A firewall when the ground up rebuild took place (the series 3 firewall was riddled with rust that let the sand come in when you drove on the beach). Why did we leave the bullet hole? Just 'cause we could. We put a band aid on it though.

Cheers Scott

[cobbadog]

My mate is a professional fisherman that works off the beach all the time. He has had a list of Regies over the years and as you say they can and do rust but he found a good receipt for stopping the metal corroding away. He recently had his last one stolen so he know has one with the 5 cylinder in it and he is very happy with it. The last one had the 4 cylinder BMW turbo engine and it was a real beaut but they burnt it out once they were finished with it.
Receipt he uses to stop the rust. Equal parts of black under body sound/rust proof, lanolin oil and good old fish oil. All gets mixed up and spray on using a body shultz gun. Re apply every 2 years.
When some of his older Regies were found to have rust he mostly bent up the steel himself but if they were a bit tricky to make replacement rust parts out of Victoria were perfect.

[Scott]

Hello Cobba.
Before the chassis was put in we had the chassis sand blasted and the people who did that had some epoxy coating that they used on steel trawler decks that they gave a 10 year warranty to. We thought if it can last at least 10 years on a steel trawler deck it'll be OK on a Landy chassis.
The stuff is as hard as nails and so far (12 years) there is no sign of rust anywhere in the chassis. The inside of the chassis was also treated with some stuff they had and it's redone every couple of years.

Cheers Scott

[cobbadog]

There was also another option and that was hot dip gal chassis. They are available and there is a place 2 hours south of us that can do them as well. They simply weight the parts before dipping and weight them after and charge by the kilo.

[Scott]

Hello Cobba.
We considered that but there are too many stories of chassis' twisting and buckling with the heat.

Cheer then
Scott