My Landrover (Series III 109"
1973)
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| I guess I have always wanted a Land Rover,
this was my second landie, the first was a plastic series
one with a friction drive motor that only lasted one day
of rough playing :( |
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| Yes, I know it is not
a Landie, This was my first real car, after I had just
taken it offroad on Christmas Day 1986 |
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This
is what I saw in the yard the only one I could afford.
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And this is what I got to take
home.
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Not bad looking at all .......
however .......
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Why are the back doors now green ?
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Because the door frames were
rotten, disguised with a fibreglass repair. I replaced
the doors
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More horrors found covered in
cosmetic filler. (the left step is no more, it hit a
rock)
all I have
done with this is paint it over for now, as it will be
covered by new door seals eventually
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As if that wasn't
bad enough this is what a stolen car did overnight on
Easter Sunday
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Make do and mend
repairs to the right footwell (now disguised with filler
again)
I have used fibreglass matting on the left
side. The inside of the footwells are plated with
aluminium, on the inside of the plates the previous owner
put in and covered with filler.
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Behind the dash was
a rats nest of wiring, none of which made sense. I have
pulled out vast amounts of redundant wiring and bypassed
the faulty indicator stalk with a seperate dip switch on
the dash.
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| That spare on the roof |
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| More problems to contend with, discovered
underneath |
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And here she is at Billing 2004
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| Not a
conventional paint job or anything you would recognise
but I thought why not? There was no reason to repaint the
doors so I thought I would blend them in. |
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Conversion into a
"stealth" camper
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