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johann morris
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I had hoped that when LR launched the new Defender the price of the older models would come back down to earth but now that I have seen the Pretender I don't think that is going to happen any time soon.
Jon
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EX-boy,
What can I say but thanks and I am glad that you are enjoying following it, as much as I am constructing it.
Jon
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Evening All,
I thought that I would make the drivers seat so that I could test the driving position before I finish things off with the steering /brake levers etc. I can't believe that anyone could clamber into the drivers seat if it had a fixed backrest, so I fished around and found several designs of Panzers drivers seat and came up with this. As the steering / brake linkage is my design the seat had to fit around it.
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3 hours ago, Mk3iain said:
Projekt Grenadier is moving on with news yesterday of a new factory in Bridgend and more announcements.
No mention of military sales as a target but you never know.
Lets hope that it works better than their web site, all I get when I click on any of the links is a blank page.
Jon
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Last one for me, I have just found this picture of the boot space with the seats up.
You couldn't even get the shopping in there.
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I don't know how you could ever find that out, I suppose only LR know that for certain but an employee told me that they were told, LR only made 500% profit on the old Defender. last night as I was trying to find out how many unsold vehicles LR currently have in stock I came across this article that makes interesting reading.
The poor buggers only make £60,000 profit on every top of the range RR sold.
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29 minutes ago, rambo1969 said:
JLR have gone for what will make them money, and I agree with them.
Only if they can sell them.
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There was talk in 2016 that the old Defender would continue to be built in Afrika but not for sale in the EU, US etc. I don't know what became of that idea.
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Evening All,
For various reasons I have achieved jack since my last post but this afternoon I managed to finally complete and connect all the brake, steering linkages. How efficiently it will all work, is yet to be seen and I still have to machine the ratchet teeth into the quadrants.
Jon
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Somewhere I have read that JLR is for sale and that either Peugeot or Renault are interested but it might just be rumour.
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I have just looked on the Defender forum and someone on there has had their personal speck priced and it's come in at just under £90k, total madness. Mind you, it seems like either there are a lot of JLR employees on that particular thread or people working for companies that have an interest in JLR, as everything is so rosy and fantastic with the new pretender and we should all buy one.
I took this off of that forum, where it comes from I do not know but it looks like there maybe problems ahead for a few companies.
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It should be called the "Pretender," it's nothing like a defender and will definitely never replace it. At £40,000+ I think that Land Rover have lost the plot.
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A very nice job, I wish I could spray as well as that.
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I was going to get the exhaust valve seats in my 1950 series one Land Rover replaced with hardened seats, until my father asked why, when I told him, he told me not to bother as during the war there was no lead in petrol and that the Land Rover engines were designed to run lead free, so I didn't bother, that was in 1995. Time has proved him to be correct, when I replaced the head gasket last year, I examined the valve seats, bores etc and there is no evidence of any problem.
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Morning Eddy,
I hope that you are well, when I saw the thread regarding the Churchill tank recovery, I thought that you had another project.
The levers are as long as I can make them without creating clearance problems, I am hoping that I will be able to introduce some extra leverage throughout the linkage between the levers and the steering box. It's tight fit in the front of a Panzer II.
Jonathan
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Evening All,
After my last post, fate intervened and stopped me getting to the victory show or really achieving much at all, however on Friday I decided to do something to take my mind off of life. I have started tackling the steering brake mechanism, obviously it's not going to perfectly replicate the original but I will make it look as near to the original set up as I can. I still need to machine the ratchet teeth in but I will wait until the whole mechanism is bolted in place, to see where they need to go,
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As long as people keep paying, the organisers will keep charging and I know the show will stop but it would send a message to other show organisers who may be having the same thoughts.
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I have to admit I was one of the people that hated Folkstone, I went to the first one and that was it for me and since it moved back to Beltring I haven't been back.
As for CMV I received mine yesterday, read it and I am now seriously considering cancelling subscription. I think the publishers should read fly past, packed with really interesting articles every month and then you read cmv full of adverts and badly written, poorly researched articles.
Jon
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It's got to be a universal carrier for me, I was offered one when I was about 14 for £50 but mum wouldn't let me have it.
One day I might get the chance again.
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To be honest, not much that I could show you, I have been really busy doing other things that were more important or so I am told. The rest has been a good opportunity to plan the next stage, do some more research and reinvigorate the creative juices, after the Victory show, I shall be back on it.
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Yes, a bit obvious but I liked Allo Allo. The inspiration actually came from a picture of Clervaux in Luxemberg in 1944 but all I could see on the sign was Café the other word below it was too small to read.
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Thanks for the link, I have to admit that I am starting to loose patients with them.
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Nearly finished, just the interior decor left to do.
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I just can't believe how incompetent the DVLA has become.
Panzer 2 turret
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No problem Simon and I am very grateful that you have, the thought of the at drive shaft spinning around near my shins fills me with horror. Thankfully on the original there was a cover that enclosed the drive shaft and covered the brake assembly, also there is a cover that covers the drive shaft from the engine to the gearbox, in my case from the gear box to the steering unit. My intention is to recreate the interior as near as possible to the original, so all rotating shafts will be covered and my legs should be safe.
Jon