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| AWOL Member Since: 31 Oct 2013 Location: UK Posts: 222  |
Oil. Lots of it. All over your driveway! If I can find somewhere to store it, an SI or SII ragtop will be joining my family in time for next summer. |
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14th Oct 2014 7:38am |
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| carrotbay Member Since: 18 Aug 2013 Location: Northants, UK Posts: 694  
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Oh I'm very jealous!
 2008 Defender 110 XS SW - M57N2 / 6HP28X |
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14th Oct 2014 9:27am |
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| Anderzander Member Since: 08 Feb 2011 Location: Lancashire Posts: 999
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I have one of these coming to bits in my garage :
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14th Oct 2014 9:59am |
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| carrotbay Member Since: 18 Aug 2013 Location: Northants, UK Posts: 694
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Oh will you lot stop it .. I've got some time off work at the moment and in real danger of buying something whilst everyone is out.
 2008 Defender 110 XS SW - M57N2 / 6HP28X |
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14th Oct 2014 10:23am |
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| milesr3 Member Since: 12 Feb 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 873 
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16th Oct 2014 8:58am |
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| Go Beyond Member Since: 30 Jan 2012 Location: Headcorn, Kent Posts: 6676
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Looks ideal
May I ask what sort of price you paid ? |
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16th Oct 2014 10:13am |
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| cornish rattler Member Since: 31 Aug 2013 Location: Manchester Posts: 642 
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Done this with a few series landies over the years with son its great just get it bought you know you want to Graham
1988 Defender 90 county 200tdi ( Beast ) Paul Walker 1973-2013 ( I Almost Had You ) |
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16th Oct 2014 11:44am |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471 
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Looks just like the artificially aged ragtop used on a film production I worked on 30+ years ago
Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades. Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW. [Insert something impressive here such as extensive list of previous Land Rovers or examples of your prestigeous and expensive items, trinkets, houses, bikes, vehicles etc] http://forums.lr4x4.com I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic. |
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16th Oct 2014 11:46am |
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| milesr3 Member Since: 12 Feb 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 873
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A very fair price
The trick now is not to go nuts when recommissioning it. First job is to remove the bodywork and find someone local to weld in new footwells and tidy up some of the the more agricultural repairs to the chassis. |
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16th Oct 2014 12:07pm |
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| Marlin.45 Member Since: 20 May 2014 Location: Llangadog, Carmarthenshire Posts: 54  
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Love mine
Click image to enlarge [/img] 2006 TD5 90 County 1961 MF35 |
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19th Oct 2014 12:05am |
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| 22900013A Member Since: 23 Dec 2010 Location: Oxfordshire Posts: 3140 
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As an owner of two IIAs (and two Series IIIs) as well as the 110 I can heartily recommend them. The only thing to keep in mind is that they are from an era when you did actually have to know how to drive, they will not mollycoddle you and will take some getting used to, but nothing on wheels puts a grin on my face like bowling along in my 109".
The later models are generally a bit more user friendly and will have things like the long handbrake, better dash layout and improvements in areas like gearbox etc. All IIAs were built like tanks as well, much better than even modern standards for Defenders I'm sorry to say. Click image to enlarge Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated 2011 110 USW
1973 Series III 1-Ton 1972 Series III 1-Ton Cherrypicker 1969 IIA 1-Ton 1966 IIA 88" |
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19th Oct 2014 8:33am |
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| milesr3 Member Since: 12 Feb 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 873
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I reached a bit of a mini-milestone over the weekend in completing the strip down of the rolling chassis and removal of the bulkhead, ready for welding and re-painting:
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10th Nov 2014 11:28am |
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| milesr3 Member Since: 12 Feb 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 873
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Making progress
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13th Dec 2014 1:59pm |
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| shaggydog Member Since: 12 Aug 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 3346 
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Fantastic Work
Running Restoration Thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/post323197.html#323197
Self confessed mileage hunter |
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13th Dec 2014 3:51pm |
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