Total noob question about series trucks.

[crusader]

Hmm...I thought that by driving a series rover, I was automatically a member of the "in crowd". Now I'm being told I have to call it a breakfast (a term I've resisted using all these years)? Obviously those crafty Canadians are up to something... I haven't figured out what yet, but it's certainly something sinister. Clever buggers!--Canadian and breakfast...Probably something devised by the Canadian Bacon Marketing Coalition!!

I've always used "radiator support panel". Is it officially that, or is it a "radiator bulkhead"?

 

[Antichrist]

I've always used "radiator support panel". Is it officially that, or is it a "radiator bulkhead"?

Land Rover called it the "radiator grill panel".

 

[Wander]

Here's an idea.....lets start calling it the "face" or something like that to counter the Canadians(cue "Blame Canada")??!!

 

[Antichrist]

I've nearly always just called it the grill (speaking of the actual grill) or radiator support or radiator panel.

 

[Wander]

I've nearly always just called it the grill (speaking of the actual grill) or radiator support or radiator panel.

Now that's a little boring don't you think- especially from a guy that named his Rover "Antichrist":ylsmoke:

 

[Antichrist]

Now that's a little boring don't you think- especially from a guy that named his Rover "Antichrist":ylsmoke:

I was looking for something and came across this that I never saw.
Actually friends named it such. The Gods Must Be Crazy made it to town sometime around when I bought my Lightweight. Friends who saw the movie and noticed the tags the state of Vermont issued me, entirely at random (so I keep telling myself), immediately named my Lightweight The Antichrist.

 

[Wander]

Holy year old threads! So that means it's been a year since I bought the IIa-no problems to report, lots of fluids added and a waxoyl for the frame-she's looking good. Still no seat belts or heater, speedo is still very optimistic and the odometer is still on vacation but she runs, has enjoyed Uwharrie and the back roads of NC with me smiling the whole time.

I haven't kept rack of the offers from random strangers to buy her but needless to say she draws attention everywhere she goes.

 

[Alaska Mike]

Would it be wrong of me to say I'm envious?

 

[Wander]

No need I'm sure something will ********** me good soon enough.
How's you resto going?

 

[Alaska Mike]

Waiting.

 

[Snagger]

I have no idea where the term "breakfast" comes from, but the whole story of using the grille for barbecues is an apocryphal tale - apart from the fly squash, oil and grease contamination, you'd be made ill by the galvanised coating breaking down with the heat and tainting the food, not to mention how awful it'd taste anyway. It'd also cause the grille to warp, preventing refitting, would remove the galvanising, causing it to rust very quickly, and would just be too much of a mess anyway.

It is peculiar, the different names that exist around the world - wing/fender, boot/trunk, bonnet/hood (a hood is the fabric top for a convertible, not an engine cover!), even chronic misnomers like shocks instead of dampers. At least most manufacturers put the engine at the right end, unlike VW and modern Ferraris.

 

[BlueBomber]

It is peculiar, the different names that exist around the world - wing/fender, boot/trunk, bonnet/hood (a hood is the fabric top for a convertible, not an engine cover!), even chronic misnomers like shocks instead of dampers. At least most manufacturers put the engine at the right end, unlike VW and modern Ferraris.

define "the right end"....
most of what I have seen shows the first gas powered cars to have the engine in the back.....eepwall:

 

[Snagger]

define "the right end"....
most of what I have seen shows the first gas powered cars to have the engine in the back.....eepwall:

For most cars, having a rear mounted engine creates a lot of problems, such as handling (strong over-steer), braking performance and stability, and cooling. That's why front mounted engines are the norm. Rear mounted engines are only any good for two-seat sports cars, and even then can still suffer the above problems. The very first auto-mobiles would have been so slow that the CoG would have been irrelevant and their engines were so weak that they were typically two-seaters. Having their engines at their rear would have kept more of the noise and fumes away from the driver and passenger, but we have moved on a bit since then...

This month's LRO magazine has an article about the introduction of the SIII, and Roger Crathorne apparently told them he had received a letter from an Aussie about the new grille and its non-BBQ ability, but I think the letter was a joke, the anecdote was a wind up or that someone might just have been so stupid that preventing them from continuing to use their grille for cooking would have been a kindness.

 

[BlueBomber]

my post was ment to be a bit of humor.....but thanks for the info. Ive never driven a mid-engine car, but I always thought understeer would be the problem........