RE: Land Rover Series II Defender: Spotted

[Burnham]

cookie1600 said:

Anyone feeling brave taking this into their ownership and keeping it legally on the road?

Not for £30k! It would be fun to use around a farm or on private land I guess, at maybe 1/3rd of the cost.

[Harry Flashman]

Stuff like this used to be a lot cheaper, before people started getting all nostalgic about Landies. When I sold my heavily modified Defender 5 years back, I nearly bought a 90 V8 that had had a SII soft top body dropped onto it. It was for sale for £7k, and was a great job. Such things were known as "hybrids" and pretty well documented in the enthusiast community. Often built for serious offroading/rock crawling etc.

£30k is a bit silly, unless it is extremely well done and pukka (and it sounds as if it is not)

[LewG]

Sweet Jesus that is absolutely horrid, give me a standard left alone Series any day

[RumbleOfThunder]

That's fantastic, surprised I've not seen others like it. Has more of a Wrangler stance now.

[andy43]

30k?

[Mackofthejungle]

cookie1600 said:

Nothing adds up:



Date registered and last MOT?

Seeing as old cars neither need tax nor an MOT these days, I'm pretty sure you can just say whatever you want. Nobody's ever going to check, and perhaps more importantly, if anyone ever did they wouldn't have a clue anyway. In fact, it makes sense for anyone driving around in an old defender to buy a pre-75 (or is it over 40 years now?) basket case and just swap the plates over. Nobody would ever know.

[300bhp/ton]

Mackofthejungle said:

cookie1600 said:

Nothing adds up:



Date registered and last MOT?

Seeing as old cars neither need tax nor an MOT these days, I'm pretty sure you can just say whatever you want. Nobody's ever going to check, and perhaps more importantly, if anyone ever did they wouldn't have a clue anyway. In fact, it makes sense for anyone driving around in an old defender to buy a pre-75 (or is it over 40 years now?) basket case and just swap the plates over. Nobody would ever know.

This has to be about the most stupid thing ever posted on Piston Heads, you sir deserve some kind of award, let alone the fact you are promoting illegal activities.

A Defender chassis has a wheel base of 92.9" while a Series is 88" and while the chassis' are so similar design they are completely different and completely obvious to anyone who knows even a little about these vehicles.

You could legally keep the Defender/90 identity and swap the body over, which would retain the age related plate for the Defender. Or you could have to submit the vehicle for an IVA.