PART 2
The brakes on old Land Rovers – Series models especially – have long had a rather unfavourable reputation. Certainly, some of this can be put down to differing expectations across the generations because to those used to the stopping power of any vehicle from the past 40-odd years, the Land Rover’s standard setup can seem – and feel – decidedly rudimentary. But much of it is simply down to neglect, and the notion that piloting a Land Rover should require votive offerings and prayers to various deities before furiously pumping away at the pedal to get some mild retarding effect is simply false. Our long-wheelbase Station Wagon tips the scales unladen at about 1.6 tons, is designed to carry nearly a ton more as payload and is rated to tow another 3.5 tons behind it. This is not a vehicle intended to have feeble or unreliable brakes – it certainly
