Robison Service's 'Searching for an RoW Land Rover' article fails to mention a few Defender engines

[rocky]

All Land Rover engines were borrowed from Rover cars in the early days. I think the 3.5 was the first break in that chain, originally being a GM engine.

 

[blueboy]

All Land Rover engines were borrowed from Rover cars in the early days. I think the 3.5 was the first break in that chain, originally being a GM engine.

And even that engine was first sourced for and used in the P6 or 2000 Rover car.
Some interesting info on this site: https://silodrome.com/rover-v8-engine-history/

 

[hillstrubl]

And even that engine was first sourced for and used in the P6 or 2000 Rover car.
Some interesting info on this site: https://silodrome.com/rover-v8-engine-history/

You know what other car used a version of that engine?


1963 Pontiac Tempest <- click there because I'm failing to successfully embed it (not spam)

 

[rocky]

Cars seeing the Rover V8

MGB GT V8
TR8 (never available in the UK)
Rover P5B, P6B
Morgan Plus 8
Rover 3500 (SD1)
TVR 350 (even bored out to 5.0)
Freight Rover
Warwick 305
Repco modified the engine to 3.0 and it was used in Formula 1 by Jack Brabham
And probably a bunch more.....