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Adz said:

Theres a US forum around here somewhere - try Land Rover Forums - Land Rover Enthusiast Forum

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Think you can run us off that easy do ya???? Well I am not falling for it, to hell with Landrovers.... I have more fun with you funny brits.

Steve.... forget shipping a diesel in.... we have plenty of Benz, Volvo, and Isuzu diesels around. If you ever decide to put a 6.2 out of the Humvee in her.... let me know and I will bring a shoehorn

Tsk - that bypass is wider than I thought

Do ya figure that the best people to advise on the import dates into the USA would be people who own them in the USA?

There's a guy in the UK with a 6.2 Humvee in a custom Defender - Land Rover Owner International aricle about it last month I think... sounds great from a power POV... not sure I'd like his fuel bills at UK prices!

I just like the idea because the 6.2 diesel is easy to come by here and pretty cheap. I figure it would go into a disco or defender just fine with a little fabrication, but I would like to see one in a series or a light. The main reason I don't have a rover yet is that we don't have many diesels over here and that is what I want... the few that are here are way over priced. I am not sure that we even have the newer models available from a dealer in diesel. If they are than nobody is buying them as I have not ever seen one.
What do you mean by import dates? For a diesel it has to be 1974 or earlier and gas engines have to be at least 25 years old. A licensed importer can import anything, but that is where the high cost of classic rovers over here comes from. I know of at least one exporter in england who is putting new diesels in old rovers and importing them here without saying anything about the transplant. He has told me that he has gotten over 60 diesel rover into the US that way without a problem

Off the top of my head, the last genuine import of 110's was in about '98, '97 for 90 model defenders. No idea what engines they had - If I see the correct info again I'll correct this post.

6.3 Hummer in a S1 - wouldn't that be like a duck punt with a 250 Evinrude?

Adz said:

6.2 Hummer in a S1 - wouldn't that be like a duck punt with a 250 Evinrude?

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Not sure what a duck punt is, but sounds about what I am thinking

We can't get diesel Rangies over here. none of the factory flyers list them, only the 4.2 and the 4.4. I think Volvo, Volkswagon and Mercedes are about the only imports that have available diesel engines. Thank the stupid assholes in our EPA and the short sighted manufacuterers on the other side of the Pacific and Atlantic for that. They'd rather swan about with hybrid cars than bring over the same models available for the rest of the world,

"Americans don't buy diesels"......That's because you don't import the flippin' things. I personally would love to have the option.

greenjeepster said:

Not sure what a duck punt is, but sounds about what I am thinking

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Duck punts usually have about 1/32 horsepower in the form of 2 oars and a ferkin great CANNON on the front... they have a very low draft and sit very close, typically less than 12 inches, to the surface so the 'pilot' can sneak up on flocks of feeding ducks and kill them... all of them.



Punt gun is usually loaded with anything from nails to gravel or a mixture thereof and about a pound of blackpowder - duck devastation is usually immediate and more or less total - although whether they die as a result of being hit by the stuff the gun is loaded with, blast or are just scared to death by the noise of the damned thing is still up for debate.

Quite why they're ever used is also up for debate as anything that's seen the muzzle end of half a hundred weight of carpet tacks just has to be inedible

Cheers,

This might amuse...

http://texashuntfish.com/flexiforums/file_uploads/PUNT-CLAYS.wmv

Cheers,

Is that thing legal there?? and to think we are limited to chamber plugs of three rounds. The boat it is mounted on would be called a sneakbox here.

Possibly in Ireland... they're just about mad enough.

Highly doubtful in the UK

There's still a few people in England who are Punt-Gunning, but it's a very specialised sport. Imagine going out onto a tidal estuary in an open boat with only 3 or 4 inches of draught and no engine - scary if the weather changes or the tide does something unexpected.
A lot of the old guns were rendered obsolete by a change in the law that banned those with a bore bigger than 1.00".

I guess the Irish take the crazy bastards prize then..... I don't think you could even find a redneck crazy enough to do that..... I guess If a man was to take enough powder with him he could blast imself back to shore

I would have said Discovery. 90's are good but uncomfortable and no room inside which is why when you see one the drivers window is normally down!

range rover classic. comfortable, safe, extremly good in the mud, and you can have your pick of the best of em for the same price as a early t/d 90

Look the only use for Disco , Range Rovers and Gaylanders is to provide spare engins for Real landys (series and Defenders)
We look on Discos, Gaylanders and Rangies as mobile spares dumps.

Can't really vote:- I like the Disco series 3 and I have a Disco series 2. I love my Series III 109 and would be happy to be the first to Bob Tail a Range Rover Sport when I will big on the lottery!!!!

Anyway you've also missed off the Bowler Wildcat!!!

The problem with series owners is they think that they are the only true landy owners , but we know there is more coil sprung owners out there than you leaf sprung purists.As for been spare part stores for series ,how are you lot going to cope with going over 40mph when you fit a tdi engine in your carts.

Mine goes (& stops) ok wiv a V8 in it, fanx fer asking.

Int no purist, just like 'em.

& anyways, who dragged this fekin fred up again?

wtf?

Grippa said:

anyways, who dragged this fekin fred up again?

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Looks like you did ya senile, knob-rotted squirrel poker.