Re: SER1 Work Shop Manual Downloads

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Put me down for a station wagon version. :-)


At 16:12 29/09/2005, you wrote:
>On 29 Sep 2005, at 13:34, Tom Wykes wrote:
>
>>It would be lovely to see the "series" re-manufactured. Trouble is
>>they would never pass any of today's laws governing new cars. It
>>would be interesting to compile a list of what they would and
>>wouldn't pass.
>
>It is a lovely idea: i detest the school run barges that Land Rover
>build now. They've travelled from elegant simplicity to the worst
>kind of bloated excess. No car should weigh nearly 3 tons.
>
>I'd love to see a stripped-down workhorse that does what's needed and
>nothing else, but if they just modernise the series one for the
>benefit of sentimentalists like me it would be a redundant nostalgia
>project. If they want to recapture the spirit of the original land
>rover they should build something brand new, utterly simple and
>suddenly, startlingly useful.
>
>Some of the original requirements would still apply - it should be
>mendable by its users, able to run on almost anything and to travel
>across almost anything - but they should start with what's possible
>now and - for once! - aim for bold simplicity instead of bloody
>satnav-and-leather.
>
>How about a fuel-cell 4x4 with biodiesel generator capacity, a motor
>in each big hub, an electric PTO and a modular upper that can accept
>anything from a flatbed to a 7 seater? give it two little round
>headlamps and that implacable-puppy demeanor we enjoy so much and
>you've got a winner.
>
>i'd buy one, anyway.
>
>best
>
>will
>
>
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Regards.

Tom Wykes.



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