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

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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[@khaledal-habib777]

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

[@brianmackenzie5692]

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.

[@MegaSkypes]

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

[@calamarininjabeast5866]

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

[@jwtfpv8957]

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

[@kateotoole6690]

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

[@FishplateFilms]

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.

[@jasonthomas4973]

Got to love Australia 🇦🇺

[@luimackjohnson302]

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!

[@johncunningham4820]

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 .

[@janolopez7436]

Awesome video ✌

[@barryross8382]

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]

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]

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.

[@Arnold-um7zr]

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

[@sharonpaterson-uu7bb]

apparently the wheel nuts had a taper at each end

[@alwynvanwyk1851]

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]

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!

[@williamahshay1997]

Great piece of journalism ABC.

[@keith6360]

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.

[@rm6902]

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

[@alwynvanwyk1851]

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]

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]

@@davidburchill9333 Peasants joke

[@rotorrover1033]

It's actually a Harley Davidson joke

[@Steve-od6hi]

Interesting, from a Long time Jeep'r.

[@henryratajczak7806]

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

[@michelong75]

🎉 great 👍

[@pauls8456]

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

[@mattluszczak8095]

Any make can join land rover club

[@peterbrett5231]

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

[@matthewkeith8605]

Expected more about the Perentie with that title.

[@harveysmith100]

Not a mention of the brilliant Isuzu engine

[@MBCGRS]

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

[@nate-tz8sx]

Couldn't agree more

[@damolux3388]

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

[@arffadailey8055]

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

[@samartz]

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

[@brycejames8770]

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.

[@SPL88]

no footage of L663 at all?

[@hughpeters8344]

rightly so 😁

[@SPL88]

@@hughpeters8344 blasphemy! 😂

[@nate-tz8sx]

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

[@Visionery1]

I wonder what these chaps think of the Landcruiser.

[@Truth...]

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

[@Salman-sc8gr]

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.

[@FelixRichardson]

Where’s the ineos

[@petergoose8164]

Bogged

[@English_Speaking_Fox]

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.

[@aaronleverton4221]

Er, what?

[@sharkkakirde1]

But not Japanese Reliable,,is it?

[@agoodlife2]

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

[@FishplateFilms]

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.

[@Razz9057]

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

[@mobeenmohammed]

the new landrovers are too plastic for the club owners, i think the new ones are too shiny and for the grocery run rather the CAMEL TROPHY

[@darcieedmunds2370]

Utter aussie bs 😂