Historic Vehicles story By Victor Ma

1987 Aussie JRA Land Rover 110 6X6

Model: JRA Land Rover 110 6X6

Constraction: Heavy duty galvanised Aussie made chassis with defender cab & a camper body. (Only build for Australia Army on end of 80s to 90s not many on civil market)

Body Style: Pickup body, ambulance body, Long Range Patrol open body, command body. (700 Made more than 70% of their parts are hand made & "born" in Australia)

Engine: 4 BDI Turbo diesel

Transmission: LT 95 Heavy duty FC101 TYPE Gearbox with Front & Rear PTO, drive front and middle, axle or all wheel.

Suspension: coil string at front, leaf string at mid & Rear inverted type shackle.

Brake: 6 wheel Disc brake

Max speed: 105 Km/h; 125 Km/h with 1.174 , Great Transfer case

History: Australia Army try to test 2 tonnes pay load pinzgauer 6X6 & discover the rear is not big enough, they try to use 110 to build a 2.6 Tonnes pay load strong 6X6 Truck. The spacious Perentie Land Rovers was developed by Jaguar Rover Australia at end of 80's for Autralian Army & one popular model is long range patrol vehicle used by Australian SAS,Commando, Cargo carrier personnel carrier, Repier air defence, ambulance, mobile workshop, recovery vehicle, and a gun tractor (max toning weight for off road 15 tonnes, Total 2,6000kg chassis cab +3,000 kg payload +1,5000 kg Towing 7,100 kg!) a heavy duty hot-dip galvanized steel space frame chassis that is more strong than UK moditied 6 wheeler. Over 700 perentie 110 6X6 ordered by Australia Army 300, 110 6X6 got a Thomas T9000 PTO winch, all Axle with Australia made heavy duty haft shaft, heavy duty Diff, salisoury Axle with 4.7:1 Gear & 4 inch wider than UK salisaury Axle, for Towing, only very few Perentie 110 6X6 on civil hand, the 6X6 cost 3 times more than a UK made 2.5TDi 110 4X4 wagon at time.Today you can see many Australian SAS (Special Air Serice) at Afghanistan,Iraq and middle east Country.This vehicle imported from Australia to HK at 1999.