Land Rover
Sale price: US $22,500.00 Make an Offer
| Used |
| “Good restoration. Vehicle runs and drives correctly. Recently Serviced” |
| Model Year: | 1974 | Make: | Land Rover |
Cleveland, Georgia, United States
Vehicle description
This 1974 Land Rover is a Shorland armored car built on a Series III platform by Short Brothers and Harland of Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is equipped with a right-hand drive configuration, as well as a 2625cc straight-six, a 4-speed manual gearbox, and a dual-range transfer case. Features include camouflage paint, a rotating turret with grenade tubes, an armored body, headlight grilles, and more as described below. The truck was already in the US when the seller recently acquired it from a collector, who used it in parades. Prior history included British military service, for which the truck was specifically built in what is essentially its current configuration, though the standard-equipment gun has been removed. The interior has been refreshed, and a driveline lubrication service was recently conducted by the seller in addition to a brake fluid flush. This armored Land Rover is now being sold with a TN title. Truck runs and drives great. This is an excellent unit to add to any military collection and definitely a head turner at car shows and parades. This truck is located in Monroe GA and can be shipped anywhere in the US (and possibly abroad). The truck is for sale locally and listed for sale on a few other sites. Price is $22,500.
Per Wikipedia: The Shorland is an armoured patrol car that was designed specifically for the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Frederick Butler with the first design meeting taking place in November 1961. The third and final prototype was completed in 1964, the first RUC Shorlands were delivered in 1966. They were reallocated to the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1970. The Royal Ulster Constabulary soon replaced the Shorland with an armoured Land Rover with more conventional profiles and no machine gun turret. The vehicles were built by Short Brothers and Harland of Belfast using a chassis from a Series IIA Land Rover . By the nineties the Land Rover Tangi , designed and built by the Royal Ulster Constabulary"s own vehicle engineering team, was by far the most common model of armoured Land Rover. Shorts and Harland continued to develop the original Shorland from an armoured patrol car with a crew of 3 to armoured personnel vehicle, capable of carrying two up front and six in the rear and a small number of these were used on the streets in Northern Ireland as late as 1998. In 1996 the Short Brothers sold the complete Shorland design to British Aerospace Australia . Mk 3 Introduced in 1972 91 bhp (68 kW) engine Thicker armour than Mk 1, Mk 2
Per Wikipedia: The Shorland is an armoured patrol car that was designed specifically for the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Frederick Butler with the first design meeting taking place in November 1961. The third and final prototype was completed in 1964, the first RUC Shorlands were delivered in 1966. They were reallocated to the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1970. The Royal Ulster Constabulary soon replaced the Shorland with an armoured Land Rover with more conventional profiles and no machine gun turret. The vehicles were built by Short Brothers and Harland of Belfast using a chassis from a Series IIA Land Rover . By the nineties the Land Rover Tangi , designed and built by the Royal Ulster Constabulary"s own vehicle engineering team, was by far the most common model of armoured Land Rover. Shorts and Harland continued to develop the original Shorland from an armoured patrol car with a crew of 3 to armoured personnel vehicle, capable of carrying two up front and six in the rear and a small number of these were used on the streets in Northern Ireland as late as 1998. In 1996 the Short Brothers sold the complete Shorland design to British Aerospace Australia . Mk 3 Introduced in 1972 91 bhp (68 kW) engine Thicker armour than Mk 1, Mk 2