Originally posted by MarkJerling In other motoring related news: Today is the first day in more than 30 years that there's no vehicle with a V8 at the Jerling household. I feel a bit....... naked.
Landrover sold. So, now it's all Fords here and nothing larger than 4 cylinder 2 litres. Sad day.
I like V8's . I like high performance V6's. I know in the past that you had described your Land Rover, but I can't recall the model year, type, engine , transmission. Did you have the Rover V8, which originated as a Buick V6, also used in Oldsmobile's back in the '60's ?
As far as sadness goes, when a beloved vehicle goes, I know the feeling. Our '07 Buick , 6 passenger sedan, which we traded in, (to my, perhaps lasting regret) about a year ago, had the old, reliable, powerful Buick 3.8 litre, 90 degree V6, which had been around in one shape or another, since the early 1960's. These engines were in FWD, RWD, AWD and 4WD (Jeep used them for a few years, called them the Dauntless V6 ), if memory serves me.
This was a great car, solid, reliable, quiet, comfortable, very torquey and had strong, robust acceleration that I enjoyed, on occasion. Never failed to start, and given our winters, that says something.
Had a AC/Delco 700 CCA battery that was still charged at 9 years old, but I decided to get a new batt...as you never want to have a dead battery , at night, in the dead of winter, @ -35, on the side of the road, on the lone prairie.
Do you think you will ever get another LR ?
Doesn't your '57 Ford have a 292 Y8 (for the uninitiated, FoMoCo speak for V8) .