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gilarion



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Bell bottom jeans and double bumpered Land Rovers
Those were the day's bell-bottom jeans and double bumpered Land Rovers


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Rashers



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I remember those bumpers. Lots of Series had them in the day. Not sure why?

The great thing about owning a Land Rover in the seventies was that you didn't feel unique in having copious amounts of rust and corrosion because all cars in those days disintegrated with corrosion.

Bell-bottom jeans are probably best left in that photo Rolling with laughter
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williamthedog



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Weren't they military bumpers?
I can just about remember bell bottom jeans Very Happy
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blackwolf



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Yes, military, to allow one vehicle to push another.
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strang



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Rashers wrote:
I remember those bumpers. Lots of Series had them in the day. Not sure why?


That is ex military - also not the indicator and side lights are vertical - on civilian spec they are horizontal. Euro-Leafing to infinity and beyond.....
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Supacat



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Must be an earlier variant as that looks very different to the version I had on a Series III Lightweight.
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It's an early IIA. 2011 110 USW
1973 Series III 1-Ton
1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker
1969 IIA 1-Ton
1966 IIA 88"
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LandRoverAnorak



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Supacat wrote:
Must be an earlier variant as that looks very different to the version I had on a Series III Lightweight.

There were several different versions over the years but those fitted to lightweights were distinct anyway as they matched the lightweight bumper. Darren

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Slideywindows



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Rashers wrote:

Bell-bottom jeans are probably best left in that photo Rolling with laughter


Or in the bottom of my chest of drawers! Shocked


I have an embarrassing pic of myself in bell-bottom jeans standing on the tailgate of my Series One.

Not suitable viewing for millenial snowflakes - or anyone of a sensitive disposition! Laughing
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ARC99



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Sorry can't get enthusiastic about double bumpers. Now bell bottoms, flares and deep waist bands are something else, I would spend part of my apprentice wages buying made to measure suits . Worked a Sunday for double bubble but had Saturday off so I could go out on a Friday night. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place,
so it doesn't take much to Censored us off.

Richard
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Twisted have recently brought back the double bumper on their new Lightweight Defender


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blackwolf



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^^^ And they've managed to do it in a way that looks strange, stupid, and utterly pointless! Rolling with laughter
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Rashers



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ARC99 wrote:
Sorry can't get enthusiastic about double bumpers. Now bell bottoms, flares and deep waist bands are something else, I would spend part of my apprentice wages buying made to measure suits . Worked a Sunday for double bubble but had Saturday off so I could go out on a Friday night.


You were lucky!!!! No show on the Saturday where I worked meant you were not welcome on the Sunday - unless you had something really pressing like your wedding Rolling with laughter

Luckily, I cannot remember any of the above, but I do remember very itchy scratchy trousers in the 70's. As a child I complained bitterly but was made to feel like it was in my imagination. It took 35 years before I found a fellow child of the 70's forced to wear these horrible trousers with a similar scared memory.
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ARC99



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You were lucky!!!! No show on the Saturday where I worked meant you were not welcome on the Sunday - unless you had something really pressing like your wedding

Apprentices at ICI (union agreement ) were not allowed to work more than six straight days, a non E.U.early for working time directive. Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place,
so it doesn't take much to Censored us off.

Richard
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