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Today's Craigslist Highlights...Pt 2
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simps80
Rising Sun Member
Yeah, it looks like an FJ62! Oh, wait. What?
Duh, it's a CJ62!
look closely.. https://denver.craigslist.org/cto/6023526892.html
Squishy!
Rising Sun Member
rover67
Rising Sun Member
hey that's almost my first truck!!! Mine was a '67 Series IIA!
kurtnkegger
Rising Sun Member
I'd like to see the 45 in the background a little closer...
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
i think the guys on mud...i've seen it before.
That '62 is super cool. I kind of want to buy it. Would you recommend owning one? What's it like to drive? How fast will it go on the highway? Does it need constant maintenance?
rover67
Rising Sun Member
Constant electrical problems (they like bullet connectors... and well Lucas), oil leaks as (believe it or not) some of their castings were actually porous early on, and they are sloooooooooowwwww. I'm talking real slow. Those motors made something like 70HP and the gearing is pretty short. I added a Fairy overdrive to mine and it did 65-70 mph on a good day.
I also broke and fixed everything in mine. I mean everything.
I'd say they are a labor of love. In fact really any old British car might be able to be considered that.
Anyways...... A few jokes:
You know why the British drink warm beer? Lucas makes the refrigerators.
You know why the British don't make computers? They cant figure out how to make them leak oil.
All kidding aside they are neat. You just gotta be willing to work on them IMHO..... you'll develop some downright awesome oil sealing techniques that involve potions like Hylomar and various tubes of silicone combined with all sorts of primitive gasket materials..
I made the switch to Toyota after lots of soul searching because of the above reasons and being tired of fixing things. I also tortured myself with an original mini that I broke and fixed everything on also. I also tend to torture whatever I drive so the British metallurgy and curiously weak yet gigantically engineered parts didn't play well with that tendency.
I'd buy another one sometime for sure. They are WAAAAAYYYYY fun to drive because of how primitive they are and as a side bonus you'd be driving the truck from "The Gods Must Be Crazy", and that's rad.
I also broke and fixed everything in mine. I mean everything.
I'd say they are a labor of love. In fact really any old British car might be able to be considered that.
Anyways...... A few jokes:
You know why the British drink warm beer? Lucas makes the refrigerators.
You know why the British don't make computers? They cant figure out how to make them leak oil.
All kidding aside they are neat. You just gotta be willing to work on them IMHO..... you'll develop some downright awesome oil sealing techniques that involve potions like Hylomar and various tubes of silicone combined with all sorts of primitive gasket materials..
I made the switch to Toyota after lots of soul searching because of the above reasons and being tired of fixing things. I also tortured myself with an original mini that I broke and fixed everything on also. I also tend to torture whatever I drive so the British metallurgy and curiously weak yet gigantically engineered parts didn't play well with that tendency.
I'd buy another one sometime for sure. They are WAAAAAYYYYY fun to drive because of how primitive they are and as a side bonus you'd be driving the truck from "The Gods Must Be Crazy", and that's rad.
Lastresort576
Hard Core 4+
Love it Rover. I have a '68 mgb-gt that I need to ship to CO from MA and get to restoring.
so yes lucas=junk, positive earth=junk, 2-6v batteries under the car=junk...But man its such a cool car
nuclearlemon
Hard Core 4+
Lucas did make vacuums for a while...they were the only thing that didn't suck
DaveInDenver
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They literally weep oil. But that's a feature, because when Rovers stop leaking that means you've run dry and need to refill.
rover67
Rising Sun Member
I literally love British cars though, they have character and soul that is really impossible to find in other vehicles. I'll own another one, and honestly it'd probably be another series rover of an early vintage 
I mean where else are you gonna find millions of coarse thread bolts holding stuff together in crappy aluminum casting that you get to learn how to helecoil? Where else do you get to hone your electrical diagnostic skills? Learning to file needles for SU carbs and figuring out "dashpots" by filling htem with also curious concoctions of oils and liquids to gt the right carb tune. It's actually all super fun.
I mean where else are you gonna find millions of coarse thread bolts holding stuff together in crappy aluminum casting that you get to learn how to helecoil? Where else do you get to hone your electrical diagnostic skills? Learning to file needles for SU carbs and figuring out "dashpots" by filling htem with also curious concoctions of oils and liquids to gt the right carb tune. It's actually all super fun.
The 12 cylinder Jaguar XJS roadster I inherited many moons ago was a recipe for disaster. Removing the radiator required eight different sizes of wrenches. Some of the bolts/nuts were metric, some were SAE and there were a couple of Whitworth - British only sized tools. Fortunately, the Whitworth bolts were accessible enough to get a crescent wrench on. The car was a '91 which was about the time Ford became the owner of the Jag name and Jaguar was using every old part they had in stock to manufacture their vehicles. That poor car was a nightmare to someone used to Toyota engineered and built vehicles. It was pretty, though.
SteveH
Hard Core 4+
In the mid '90s, I test-drove a '74 Land Rover Series IIIa after I bought my '40, thinking they were cooler. What a pile - very underpowered, even by FJ40 standards, leaked everything, balky shifter. It did have a very smooth ride - many thin, narrow leaves in the leaf springs. I couldn't get it over 45 mph. I fled back to my FJ40, which suddenly felt like a limo in comparison. I'm sure there are cool aspects to Rovers, but it felt like a tremendous leap backward to me.
pmccumber
Hard Core 4+
Reminds me of the old joke that The European Union would bring about the best of each country. You'd get:
British - Diplomacy
German - Armies
Swiss - Banking
French - Food
Italian - Cars
But, the way things go with bureaucracies being what the are, they ended up with:
British - Food
German - Diplomacy
Swiss - Armies
French - Cars
Italian - Banking
Oh well, so much for plans.
British - Diplomacy
German - Armies
Swiss - Banking
French - Food
Italian - Cars
But, the way things go with bureaucracies being what the are, they ended up with:
British - Food
German - Diplomacy
Swiss - Armies
French - Cars
Italian - Banking
Oh well, so much for plans.
rover67
Rising Sun Member
Whitworth - Hammer and a socket that kinda fits. You'll break the bolt off in the part anyways.
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