Series gone ballistic

[Richard]

I couldn't resist. For sale in the Netherlands, a '70 Land Rover Series with anti-aircraft gun. I don't know, is this real? Or has somebody gone ballistic over the idea of Series Land Rovers? Not even a Series 2, but a Series 3. So shoot me, but not with that...

RHD, 80 K miles, non-runner due to standstill...

Richard

[NoBeardNoTopKnot]

'bin wrong before - looks rather fake to me. For kick-off, it couldn't work well, if at all. Not much appears to hold  it down... And the barrel looks akin to scaffold-pole.

Fun though.
However, the Shoreland armoured-car is s thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorland_armoured_car

[simonbav]

Maybe it worked as a bird scarer on an airport   

It doesn't look very direct able.

[Noddy]

With the dumper truck tyres and the jerry can mounted on the side agricultural is the word to discribe it.

Alec

[22900013A]

Well that gun is fixed, with no obvious means of traverse. Id suggest it's a movie background prop.

[Serious Series]

The barrel looks like a lamp post it is three different diameters over its length.

[Uffddd]

Well that gun is fixed, with no obvious means of traverse. Id suggest it's a movie background prop.

Probably for the best. It would roll over if you fired broadside.

[dkenner]

Well that gun is fixed, with no obvious means of traverse. Id suggest it's a movie background prop.

Agree.  Look at the shells mounted on the back, and that the "turret" is enclosed, which would make loading interesting... 

[w3526602]

Hi,

Slightly OT.

A couple of years ago, Barbara gave me a model (Dinky?) of a Land Rover towing a Bristol Bloodhound.... 4 tons plus its special trailer.
 
My Bloodhounds (defending Australian troops from North Korea) could be carried on long trailers with swivel front axles, which I have towed with S2 Land Rovers. They were also towed by, and carried on, my Lancer Side-loading fork trucks.

How many of our members here were awarded the Pingat Jasa medal by the Malaysian Prime Minister?

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