Subdeacon Joe Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 And Chevrolet is bringing back the Blazer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 32 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: And Chevrolet is bring back the Blazer! And Fiat thinks it makes Jeeps................ OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Drifter Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 2 hours ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: And Fiat thinks it makes Jeeps................ OLG FCA make a great Rubicon. We all know how you feel..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 28 minutes ago, Hillbilly Drifter said: FCA make a great Rubicon. We all know how you feel..... "NO-You really don't" ................ OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 And Land-Rover thinks it makes Land-Rovers! I've driven a Land-Rover ... it was a '72 model (unfortunately it was the first model year castrated to meet US air pollution requirements), but it was still the boxy African safari car, built like a bloody TANK! Loved that short wheelbase, aluminum bodied, rough-riding, recessed-radiator, quick-steering little struggle buggy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: And Chevrolet is bring back the Blazer! Yeah, but they're dumping the Impala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: And Land-Rover thinks it makes Land-Rovers! I've driven a Land-Rover ... it was a '72 model (unfortunately it was the first model year castrated to meet US air pollution requirements), but it was still the boxy African safari car, built like a bloody TANK! Loved that short wheelbase, aluminum bodied, rough-riding, recessed-radiator, quick-steering little struggle buggy! A few days ago on my way into work I saw a 2018 or 2019 Land Rover that looked like any other white SUV with a huge, heavy duty grill guard on it. This car will obviously never be anywhere it would even remotely need it. Guess the owner was compensating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Nowadays it says Land Rover on the vehicle ... and the only semblance to the true, genuine, authentic, REAL Land-Rover is they have four wheels and a windshield. The genuine British Leyland rover I know and love (I think the model was renamed the Defender) has BRASS RIVETS holding the brake linings on the cast iron brake shoes. If you're out in Crocodile Dundee's far outback and two million miles from the nearest Ferd Hack or Auto Zone, and you wear the brakes down to the rivets, it's not going to cut gouges in the brake drums. When you crawl under with a grease gun and you have your trusty assistant ease it ahead by the half-inch until one grease fitting on the "Propellor Shaft" (them Brits talk funny!), ALL the grease fittings point down! It's got a big round hole in the back bumper. Why? Look at the instruction book ... it shows how to plug in the PTO shaft and run a hay baler! This machine was made from the word go to be Oil Field Grade, to quote my dear Pappy: big and mean and hell for stout! -- only it wasn't that big, ours was the short wheelbase, and that short coupled struggle buggy had FAST steering, and Mama never would let us take it out into the woods! (She did, however, celebrate the new acquisition by buying a British driving cap, and by turning the brim up on a felt broad brimmed for me, she sewed a red-and-green cockade on the side and called it my Aussie go-to-hell hat!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 26 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: authentic, REAL Land-Rover is they have four wheels and a windshield Land Rovers do not now have, nor have they ever had, a windshield. It's a windscreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 1 minute ago, Alpo said: Land Rovers do not now have, nor have they ever had, a windshield. It's a windscreen. I stand corrected! You're absolutely right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 The new Jeeps are more capable (at least in factory form) than ever. The 3.6 Pentstar V6 puts out great torque and decent horsepower. Still made in Toledo Ohio too. https://www.saffordofwarrenton.com/made-in-america-where-are-jeep-wranglers-manufactured-infographic/ GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Drifter Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 14 minutes ago, Gunner Gatlin, SASS # 10274 said: The new Jeeps are more capable (at least in factory form) than ever. The 3.6 Pentstar V6 puts out great torque and decent horsepower. Still made in Toledo Ohio too. GG agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yohanaqua Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I’m on my 6th Jeep. Had (have) a 1964 Willy’s, had 4 CJ5s over the years (CJs all had ground-stompin’ V8s in ‘em), always thought Wranglers were wimpy. Bought a newer Rubicon last December for my daughter. She didn’t like it so I took it over. Added a few bells and whistles. The Wrangler is the AR-15 of vehicles. This is a good 4x4. Best gears (maybe better) since the old Willy’s and better on the pavement to boot. Plenty HP and torque. I was a sceptic and now am a believer. I am satisfied. It suits me and it suits my missus. Course I won’t be parting with my F-350 4x4 either just yet..... ML (Old school Jeepster) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yohanaqua Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Of course there is an awful lot of computer crap on it, but that’s life in the 21st. ML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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