Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I'm talking "high" range as I'm pulling a trailer. Our Range Rover is rated around there for low range work too.. ie. Pulling a boat out of a lake, pulling out the neighbor's car from a ditch, etc. High range pulling for highway travel, and I still suspect a 31' airstream would manhandle any range rover or discovery if any wind or hills were encountered. Here the BIG trucks are nice. Anyways, love the discoverys as well and it may be my next car... Keep on Leica and Rover! Kpeters - -----Original Message----- From: Lee, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:22 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] Land Rover/Range Rover picture taken with a IIIf >My Disco(very) with the 3.9 engine will tow 7700 lbs in the low range. It >is a solid engine and is probably the least troublesome and most >reliable part of the current Rovers. It's a high compression engine so it's >great for controlled descents. Only minus side is pathetic mileage, >I get about 11 mpg in city and 16 mpg highway. And you have to use >high octance gas. > >Rover on (with a Leica) > >Jonathan Lee > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bud Cook [mailto:budcook@ibm.net] >Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:38 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Land Rover/Range Rover picture taken with a IIIf > > >Every time I talk to my wife about replacing her 16 year old 190D with an >SUV, her only question is whether or not it'll tow an Airstream. We had a >31 footer for 17 years and I've been waiting for a long time for GM to >modernize the drive train of the Suburban so I'd have a decent tow vehicle >for a new Airstream....still waiting! > >BTW, I've done a little investigating since this thing started and I'll >concede that the current V8 engine in Land Rovers is light years more >advanced than the original Buick engine. Maybe BMW has had some influence >on these beauties after all:-) > >Bud > >----- Original Message ----- >From: KPETERS <mailto:KPETERS@huntel.net> >To: Leica List <mailto:leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 8:32 PM >Subject: [Leica] Land Rover/Range Rover picture taken with a IIIf > >Ok, to get us back on track, here's a pic of our Rover and Rig taken with a >IIIf BD with 50mm summicron on E100 Kodak slide film, scanned with the >olympus scanner with optional woodgrain interior. Long live the Queen! >Sorry to have gotten sidetracked off the Leica topics, perhaps this will >bridge the gap! Aesthetic form and function all together. Price, schmice, >go get the checkbook and stop whining! ! KPETERS >http://www.huntel.net/kpeters/campground.JPG ><http://www.huntel.net/kpeters/campground.JPG> >