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I'm leaving the ranks- Defender sold. So a goodbye memorial pic for you.
Replaced with an Aston, so whilst I'm unhappy, I'm hardly inconsolable...
Goodbye to one of my favourite cars ever. I know it's gone to a good home in rural Oxfordshire, and further has been sold to a friend, so I'm happy woth its future prospects! I don't think it was ever in its element on London's streets. Although apart from the turning circle, I thought it made a great London cars: unlike many modern 4x4s it was high, without the attendant width and length. Its height made underground parking and trips to the local household waste site a problem, though, but I could never bear to remove the roof rack and lights...
Muddy Land Rover by baconrashers, on Flickr
Replaced with an Aston, so whilst I'm unhappy, I'm hardly inconsolable...
Goodbye to one of my favourite cars ever. I know it's gone to a good home in rural Oxfordshire, and further has been sold to a friend, so I'm happy woth its future prospects! I don't think it was ever in its element on London's streets. Although apart from the turning circle, I thought it made a great London cars: unlike many modern 4x4s it was high, without the attendant width and length. Its height made underground parking and trips to the local household waste site a problem, though, but I could never bear to remove the roof rack and lights...
Muddy Land Rover by baconrashers, on Flickr
Edited by Harry Flashman on Thursday 7th May 12:09
Cheers for the comments guys.
Tom, the kids point is a powerful one! My kids play a big part in the continued ownership of my little 80. They both prefer it to everything else and relish to opportunity to go out in it, particularly off road. I think that this is partly because when in a gang, they're all facing in towards each other in the back. All that keeps Mrs88 happy, despite her refusing to drive it!
For a novice mechanic like me, its also all pretty straightforward to fix when necessary, and learn the basics on. Again, makes me look good in the eyes of my kids!
Insurance is cheap - 80 quid a year.
Although some parts are getting a little scarce / pricey for mine, my buddy recently bought a Series 2 and it seems much easier to get bits and pieces for that. I'm actually a little jealous of the creature comforts that he enjoys, like lockable doors! He's put parabolics on it too, which seem to work well.
Nineteen sixty-three (Land Rover) by CY2010, on Flickr
Good luck with the hunt!
Tom, the kids point is a powerful one! My kids play a big part in the continued ownership of my little 80. They both prefer it to everything else and relish to opportunity to go out in it, particularly off road. I think that this is partly because when in a gang, they're all facing in towards each other in the back. All that keeps Mrs88 happy, despite her refusing to drive it!
For a novice mechanic like me, its also all pretty straightforward to fix when necessary, and learn the basics on. Again, makes me look good in the eyes of my kids!
Insurance is cheap - 80 quid a year.
Although some parts are getting a little scarce / pricey for mine, my buddy recently bought a Series 2 and it seems much easier to get bits and pieces for that. I'm actually a little jealous of the creature comforts that he enjoys, like lockable doors! He's put parabolics on it too, which seem to work well.
Nineteen sixty-three (Land Rover) by CY2010, on Flickr
Good luck with the hunt!
Edited by CY88 on Thursday 7th May 12:56
ChemicalChaos said:
robm3 said:
EarlOfHazard said:
What's that second skin on the roof for?Looks too flimsy to be a roofrack so thinking it must be some sort of Shade options offered on African Spec LR's?
Earl - fantastic looking County you have there! I dont know if you are aware, but that XWK...X registration marks it out as one of 2 batches of VERY early production models that were used both in motoring review press literature, and at the launch party for the model at Blenheim Palace in April 1982. I'd be very interested to see what the date of first registration is on yours.
XWK 743X and 740X are doppelgangers for yours that are known to have featured in period reviews.
How do I know all of this? Well, I am a complete of a Series 3 County nerd. I own XKV 415X, another known press review County but this time in bright red. XKV...X was the other of the aforementioned 2 batches, and from 410 to 423X was split between 88" 4-cylinders like ours, 109" Stage 1 V8 Countys, and the also newly-launched 109" Hi-capacity pickup.
Here is a picture of mine at play:
and when it was new:
And here might well be yours, but nobody knows for sure as this launch brochure was staged with a fake numberplate. Note, if you look closely, how the wheel centres have been manually coloured in. The plan was originally to have black centre trims to further distinguish the County from lesser models, but at the last minute this idea was pulled - after the photoshoot had already been done!
Whereabouts are you based please? I'd love to meet up, chat and have a mooch around yours as mine unfortunately has one or 2 tiny detail bits of interior trim missing that I've never been able to ascertain what they should be like!
Sadly mine isnt on the road at the minute, pending a rebuild around a new bulkhead
I'm based down South and am always up for a chat. If this is too far, then I'm happy to take snaps of the interior and forward them on. Funnily enough, some guy abroad wanted photos of the little bumper above the rear fog light, so he could fabricate one for his County.
Mine is a few months short of 22 years old and I've had it since it was 9 months old. I've used it extensively for various off=road stuff including very competitive RTV trials. Only the rear door is dent free.
Over recent months I've done a bit of welding - new inner wings, headlight boxes and front body mounts repaired, new inner and outer sills and associated body mounts, front and rear floors repaired incl seat belt mount areas, new boot floor incl the side sections, rear wheel arches repaired, new body rear cross member and associated body mounts, new sections made to join cross member to the rear door frame.
The chassis was fine so I just cleaned and painted it.
The bumpers, sills and under protection plates were all shot blasted and galvanised.
I've fitted new springs, dampers, bumps stops, brakes discs/pads/calipers and renewed some brake pipes. The axles have been off for painting and I've renewed every suspension/steering bush, seal, bearing track rod end etc.
I've fitted new bearings and seals to the turbo and it now boost higher for longer.
A couple of weeks ago it achieved its 20th MoT test pass.
Happily, it still looks like a shed but I hope for another 5 years of (ab)use from it.
Over recent months I've done a bit of welding - new inner wings, headlight boxes and front body mounts repaired, new inner and outer sills and associated body mounts, front and rear floors repaired incl seat belt mount areas, new boot floor incl the side sections, rear wheel arches repaired, new body rear cross member and associated body mounts, new sections made to join cross member to the rear door frame.
The chassis was fine so I just cleaned and painted it.
The bumpers, sills and under protection plates were all shot blasted and galvanised.
I've fitted new springs, dampers, bumps stops, brakes discs/pads/calipers and renewed some brake pipes. The axles have been off for painting and I've renewed every suspension/steering bush, seal, bearing track rod end etc.
I've fitted new bearings and seals to the turbo and it now boost higher for longer.
A couple of weeks ago it achieved its 20th MoT test pass.
Happily, it still looks like a shed but I hope for another 5 years of (ab)use from it.
83AndyJ said:
I wouldn't be able to resist making it all shine! Excellent work there.
My not so shiny new (old) wheels back on:ChemicalChaos said:
Are you going to rub down the paint on the bulkhead then, or you'll have a massive mismatch
There is still some thin Deep Bronze Green under the oxidization on the Birmabright panels:Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 24th May 09:36
Done some of this off roading rubbish again.
Duratrac's showed their stuff for getting grip, kept it sensible for a change as i didn't want to trash the new wheels, tyres and suspension bits.
Got to do a double tow as a 90 got stuck, the D4 that went to help it, also got stuck. So i pulled both out.
Have a noise under it that comes and goes. Going to need to check that out.
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