ive taken the video "4x4 history" (from the history channel) and ripped it into windows streaming media. its about 150 megs, and will be available until i reach my bandwidth quota at which time it wont be available again until after the 1st. of next month.
i recommend you right click and "save as". if any of you want to place it on your web servers to share the load, please feel free!
Nathan Is that the Jeep History or just 4x4? I have the Jeep tape from the History Channel...(i need to hide my cards when i am watching that stuff)
this video is 4x4 history, but at least 1/3 of it is dedicated solely to jeeps. its full of interesting off road trivia, such as the first land rover was built off a jeep chassis. :-)
glad to do it!
that would be great! ive got a couple gigs of 4x4 related videos id like to put online and would if i had the bandwidth to support it.
you set it up, ill fill it up.
Don't think that's true - they certainly built a LandRover / Jeep hybrid with a Landy body on a Jeep frame as part of a "joint venture" thingy, but abandoned it.
Dave Milne, Scotland '99 TJ 4.0 Sahara
Great! Looks like I can contact them and get your ass into some royal trouble due to unauthorized copyright infringement, huh? You brainless hick, didn't you learn your lesson when you lost against DC?
Obviously not.
watch the video, they show the very first land rover ever built and not only do they say it was built on a jeep chassis, but looking at it its obvious.
You didn't know the Rover's were designed on a surplus M38?
The channel section type frame is made to flex for a reason and not weak at all. Strength and sturdiness are not the same. Kevlar is so strong because it stretches. Commercial vehicles use this same design to allow for flex. The Jeep's frame has designed-in flexing.
The brothers bought a surplus war Jeep and built the first Land Rover on that, after being hipnotised by the little M38's capabilies. It was on the History Channel about the history of off-roading.
hi bill, sorry it took so long to respond. i had forgotten all about this message.
? you arent suggesting that hardened steel cannot be welded properly are you?
this regulation could be due to multiple reasons, most likely because most shops could not ensure the weld was done _properly_. how many mechanic shops employ certified welders? very few! most mechanic shops have mechanics that "know how to weld" but that doesnt mean they are capable of joining two pieces of steel in a manner that would pass destructive/non-destructive testing. all types of conversions are done daily where frames are lengthened/shortened and this is accomplished through welding. hopefully the shop doing the custom work knows what theyre doing.
spring steel is a bit different in that it is designed to flex. i know of no welding process where the consumable will flex without destructive side effects.
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