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Started by Richard, Jan 24, 2024, 10:48 AM

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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
'64 S2a
'85 RRC

NoBeardNoTopKnot

#1
'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

#2
Maybe it worked as a bird scarer on an airport  ???  :))

It doesn't look very direct able.
1960 88" 2286 petrol truck cab
1971 109" 2286 diesel station wagon

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

Quote from: 22900013A on Jan 24, 2024, 03:52 PMWell 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

Quote from: 22900013A on Jan 24, 2024, 03:52 PMWell 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... 
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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.

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