Assorted Land Rover Series Documents–Roverseas Delivery, Price Lists, etc…
![Land-Rover Price List - USA 1962 - Back[3]](https://i0.wp.com/www.ovalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/LandRoverPriceListUSA1962Back3.jpg?resize=189%2C244 "Land-Rover Price List - USA 1962 - Back[3]")
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$12,000 1/8 scale Land Rover Series IIA Model
![PH43[1]](https://i0.wp.com/www.ovalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/PH431.jpg?resize=504%2C381 "PH43[1]")
When I first saw this, it took a few minutes to sink in, these guys offer an insanely precise 1/8 model based on the 1964 Land Rover Series IIA. This is the picture that really put it in perspective, literally:
![PH33[1]](https://i0.wp.com/www.ovalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/PH3311.jpg?resize=504%2C323 "PH33[1]")
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Here’s their photo gallery:
http://uk.psmscalemodels.com/photos.html
The little details really are great, from someone who actually has touched almost every bolt on one of these Land Rovers, I can really appreciate it. And then there’s the price, it really is $12,000, made to order and you can specify options you’d prefer like Right hand drive, without soft top, colored soft top, etc… The steering is functional as are the doors, hood & tailgate with real scale hinges. Door tops can be removed and more.
They even offer just the chassis for $800 or the engine & gearbox for $1500.
End of Summer link clearance
Here are some more links I’ve collected and never got around to posting, some old, some new.
Electric / Hybrid Range Rover Projects:
Ultimate Green SUV: For $225K, Range Rover Electric Conversion
Range_e (2013) – the hybrid electric Range Rover Sport
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QNX – The OS for the Virtual Instrument Panel
Land Rover 60 years – Anniversary Site
88inch.com – Land Rover Series IIA Restoration
OFF-ROAD WITH PH AND LAND ROVER
Recollections of former Land Rover Chief Engineer, Arthur Goddard
Engineer responsible for first Land Rover makes surprise visit to Britain
Arthur Goddard, who led the engineering team that developed the original Land Rover, has returned to Britain to celebrate the iconic 4×4 vehicle’s 62nd birthday.
The 89-year old, who is still chief engineer of his family’s Australian-based trailer firm, last week visited Land Rover’s design headquarters, Solihull factory – his first visit for 55 years –and was also guest of honour at the special 62nd birthday party at Gaydon organised over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend.
‘Solihull is unrecognisable from the factory I left in 1955,’ says Arthur. ‘Seeing the Defender coming down the production line however did bring back memories. It’s astonishing that a vehicle that was really developed as a “stop gap” should continue to be so successful, and has given birth to a thriving 4×4 company.’
Arthur joined Rover in 1945, initially to help develop a new tank engine. Once the war ended, the 24-year old was moved onto car engines. Soon after, in Easter 1947, Maurice Wilks had his brainwave for a pioneering all-terrain vehicle – the Land Rover.
Arthur’s responsibility was to design and to develop the vehicle, for production. Working under him were such Land Rover legends as Tom Barton and Frank Shaw (transmission), Gordon Bashford (chassis), Joe Drinkwater (engine) and Sam Ostler (body design).
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Is the Range Rover Evoque, the 2010 production version of the Range Stormer?
Land Rover did their first-ever concept to preview a new production model back in 2004 with the Range Stormer. It was our first intro into what would become the first addition to the Range Rover line – the Range Rover Sport. The Sport was done when they showed the concept for the first time. So it was more like they took a soon to be released vehicle and created a concept from it. That’s all old news though, what I wanted to say today was something that caught me off-guard. We’ve seen the Stormer since 2004 and the final 2-door Evoque was revealed back in June. The Stormer always seemed to me as a blurry vision of the Sport, what I mean by that is, squint while looking at the Stormer from a distance and it’s a Sport. However, if you really look at it today, it’s an Evoque with 2004-era Land Rover styling. And I’m sure the 2-door version is biasing my opinion, but look at how many cues are there. And I do of course realize they should have similar cues if they’re all basically “Range Rovers.
![rr-stormer-hero[4]](https://i0.wp.com/www.ovalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/rrstormerhero4.jpg "rr-stormer-hero[4]")
Look as those wheel arches that intersect the hood line. Roof line looks closer to Evoque then Sport. Hood louvers.
Big spoiler & Angular Exhaust – And they both seem to have glass roofs.
And I’ll close with a no longer valid & somewhat now sad quote from the 2004 Range Stormer Press Release:
Like all Land Rovers, the four-wheel drive is engaged permanently…
It’s the “Like all” part that really shows its age.