Imagine fighting that hard to get most of the way through the gap, only to find a Chevy corvair made it as far without a blown diff 😅

@CovertOperation13

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, Chevy sent 3 corvair's, Two of them made through the gap.

@the_official_djalanjs0588

3 жыл бұрын

Well remember when he said the Landrovers had a Buick motor. I wonder if they had a GM motor in their vehicles because they probably knew that their engines wouldn't not make probably. The Landrovers are pretty cool but I'm not a fan.

@dskeetgt

2 жыл бұрын

This totally caught me off guard and made me laugh way harder than it should have.

@miguelangelcesterobriceno6943

Жыл бұрын

GM send 4x4 trucks with the corvairs

@dipren443

3 ай бұрын

@@the_official_djalanjs0588I know this comment is 2 years old…. The Land Rover engine in this case is a Buick engine. Buick developed a lightweight all aluminum V8 in the early 60’s and sold the tooling to Rover after having some teething issues and ceasing to use/develop it. It soldiered on through the early 2000’s.

These days it's hard to imagine just how important the original Range Rover was in the history of the motor car. Here was a large, comfortable family vehicle, with good performance, but with unrivaled off road capabilities. Nothing like this had ever been seen before, and when this expedition was completed it just went to show just what an incredible vehicle this was. Even to this day the Range Rover remains the benchmark, when it comes to luxury SUV's, and although they are very expensive and one of the most luxurious vehicles on the market, they also remain one of the most incredible and capable vehicles off road too.

@dskeetgt

2 жыл бұрын

LR/RR have definitely carved out their part in history but Toyota has proven to be the go to vehicle when it comes to unrivaled offroad capability and reliability. Just look at every war zone for the last 30+ years.

Great video my father was the photographer on that expedition working for the daily telegraph Paul armiger

the first 4wd vehicle to cross the trans american highway first after 2 of the 3 the 2wd compact corvair completed the trip a few years earlyer and there were no roads except the road that they found the abandoned corvair was on

@mlow587

11 ай бұрын

I ffound the corvair expedition better , they did it without air support and the army.

A great tale. My 1986 Range Rover Classic that I use daily to commute always gets me home and in style. A head turner!

I know old land/Range Rover had quite the reputation till about the early 2000s when reliability became a pipe dream 🥲

Amuses me a 2nd hand Series Landrover had to be bought to save the Rangies. Still an absoloute triumph for all of Landrover.

Nice job with this video! Years ago, I think in about the mid-1970's, Rover/Land Rover (a.k.a. British Leyland) had a sales brochure. If I remember correctly, it was titled THE DARIEN GAP EXPEDITION. There was no reference in that publication to the fact that some years earlier, a 88" wheelbase Land Rover and a Jeep pickup truck had also driven through the Darien Gap. (This Land-Rover/Jeep expedition, circa 1958 or 1959 as I recall, was reported on in an issue of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine. I drove Land Rovers, mostly Series IIA's and Series III 88" vehicles from 1964 to 1993.) I operated a Land Rover & Rover car parts business in San Diego, California from 1974 to 1986. Although I've owned two Jeep vehicles since April 2012, one of which is a 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon, I'll always---always---have a warm spot in my heart for Land Rover's products. Mahalo for this article and the quality of the video you've put together on the British Trans-America Expedition! Andy McKane, former owner of McKane's Rover Imports, Inc., writing from the Hawaiian Island of Molokai, 25 July 2023.

i love these videos please keep them coming ✌️

This is my favourite channel I’ve found on KZread recently. Always excited when you make an upload!

imagine working that hard to find a rwd corsair that only didn't make it because its parts got stolen

I’m pretty sure at some point previous to this Landrover definitely uttered the sentence “you owe me big time” to the British army!

Here to help the algorithm and to say another great video on something I had no idea about.

Amazing. Thanks so much

Insane! Thanks for the story! Cheers!

Another great video! Love that era Range Rover. Can’t afford the parts yet so I can’t buy one yet. Keep up the great content. I know it can’t be easy but it is very well done!

Awesome story

Thought the Camel Trail was tough !

Great story! Never heard about this before.

Thanks for this video. Gavin Thompson and the driving team were members of the British army unit, the 17th/21st Lancers. After two amalgamations, the regiment is an antecedent of the Royal Lancers. The death's head badge, or motto as it's known, was displayed on the front doors of the vehicles, but these were often claimed as souvenirs by local en-route.

"Please MIND THE DarienGAP between Panama and Colombia"... Brits Expidition Team should have known better 😂!

Epic feat with a can do attitude 🌐

Thank you for doing this 👍 I've subscribed too

The blown diff was nothing to do with the engineering or mechanical aspects of the Range Rover.. the massive swamp tyres they fitted spinning away in the mud put too much strain on the drive train.. when they swapped them back to standard tyres on the instruction of the rover company back in England they had no more issues with differentials

I love that car

This was awesome and could never be repeated

Let’s face it, even if, and it is big „if” £120.000 car could do this, who would send it for such a quest. First Range Rovers were build to achieve such purpose. Nowadays they are build to be … luxurious.

kool vid

I remember reading about this in PV4 magazine.

that bass tho

Who is this narrator? Nationality? Interesting story! W-w-w-whaaaaaat?!? They smoked 80.000 sigarettes all together? I presume that most of the adventurers died by now?!?

Where is my Land Cruisers an Hilux? Darien jungle? Heard of it.

@TheBlueVaron

Жыл бұрын

they never made it back

@edrawarwickshire3701

Жыл бұрын

No such thing Land Cruiser and Hilux made it back from Darien Gap.

The original Range Rover is NOT a SUV its a 4x4 SUV's were not even invented buy marketing then.

@Titan604

Жыл бұрын

Looks like it is being marketed as a SUV here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJyVmq2mccbXYrw.html Quote from the 1970 advert "The Range Rover is a real performance car and a real car for the sporting family"

Lol! Stop right there! As a previous owner of a Range Rover, NOTHING can change my mind about Range Rovers. I love Range Rovers, but I don’t like Range Rover bills! Long live LX 470 as the best SUV!

Also it is surprising to find out that where Land rovers Made it , jeeps made it and even more surprising… a couple of rear wheel driven corvairs also made It.

Jeeps did it better then … they all should hav driven land cruiser toyotas and have it easier on themselves

@edrawarwickshire3701

Жыл бұрын

Clearly you didn't want to accept the Range Rover made it back. You looks like those woke corny brand loyalty Toyota fans that recently read many Toyota reputation all over the media.

Great video. Though I’m not sure it’s a testament to the reliability of British engineering that they had to replace so many drivetrain components, and barely did better than Corvairs. It’s the same deal today: if you choose a Land Cruiser or 4Runner instead of Land Rover you don’t need to stop every mile to pick up the trail of parts that fell off, and they’re not ready for the landfill after 5 years of use.