tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post4440093805449695981..comments2024-03-22T18:15:47.666+11:00Comments on Boy on a bike: Bollocks all roundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-87139947970451867182012-10-13T13:03:13.545+11:002012-10-13T13:03:13.545+11:00The standard of drivers went to hell in a handbag ...The standard of drivers went to hell in a handbag when they got rid of the crashboxes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-67868818611238630812012-10-12T12:37:58.837+11:002012-10-12T12:37:58.837+11:00Not being Transport Corps, my experience as a driv...Not being Transport Corps, my experience as a driver of Mogs is limited, but I like them as a vehicle; MUCH nicer than the old Mk3 and Mk5 Internationals. I must say, however, that a GOOD driver could get those 6x6 Mk5s in and out of some very interesting places. In fact, the signals type used to borrow them whenever they needed to put equipment on the top of some nasty-looking hill.<br /><br />Agree about the land Rover thing. I saw a steady stream of VERY broken 4x4 and 6x6 Rovers unloaded in our workshops over the years, especially in the early days.<br /><br />The problem was that the new, turbo-diesels were NOT your Grandad's Land Rover. On a long convoy drive (or any drive, really) in the old, gutless petrol powered workshop wagons, it was literally "pedal to the metal", just to maintain highway speed and keep up with the main convoy. Try that in a Perentie and you'll be airborne before you know what's going on.<br /><br />The 6x6 Land Rover "GMV" workshop vehicles were issued as a replacement; underpowered for their weight and very "interesting" to take "bush-bashing", but they were a huge improvement as a repair facility.<br /><br />Finally, in the transition to the Diesel Land-Rovers, we had a bunch of Land Cruisers on trial. Quite a few of them got seriously bent because people tried to drive them like the old Land-Rovers; ie. flat out.Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-46041591776576341112012-10-11T13:23:13.443+11:002012-10-11T13:23:13.443+11:00I well remember a trip from Canungra to Wyangaree ...I well remember a trip from Canungra to Wyangaree in August 1969 on an ACCO. We were last in the convoy, and the driver was obviously having problems maintaining station. We were thrown from side to side, on a road that followed a ridgeline with drops that seemed to go all the way down to the coastal plain on each side. No amount of banging on the cabin and swearing at the driver had any effect.<br />He locked himself in the cabin when we arrived at the end of the track.<br />I still reckon that was the closest I cam to being a casualty during my two years in the army, active service included. 1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27584252.post-34469528275724678312012-10-11T13:15:31.820+11:002012-10-11T13:15:31.820+11:00This comment has been removed by the author.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.com