Seies Land rovers?

clicky

Yeah! Series landys are like a tractor with a cab..... Slow, noisy, heavy, bouncy, thirsty, leaky, cold and FUN! you need to be a massochist to drive one every day unless you live on a farm, though. The wife didn't take kindly to sitting in the pickup bed with the shopping cos there wasn't enough space in the cab, but it was November (and raining).... Used half a tin of sniff to start it, and both feet to stop it!! Then it blew up and I never got round to fixing it.



2.25 diesel ex mil S11a LWB (109) recently sold on eBay to make way for a Mk1 Granada. Its someone else's project now.

Scaryoldcortina has pretty much summarised it there.

Pretty unpleasant is about the size of it in standard for.


HOWEVER!!

They really are like a massive mechano kit. If you need to learn how to do stuff they are about the best thing to learn on as they are quite simple and you get lots of space!

You can stick with a stocker, or start a never ending wiish list of upgrades!
Pretty much any motor you could think of... RV8, Ford V6, Transit 2.5, Land Rover 2.5 or TDi or TD5, J 2. (Daihatsu or Nissan).... or if you are mad a perkins forklift engine... all drop in with little fuss.

Then you can upgrade to parabolic cart springs or 'defender' type coils, fit power steering, posh up the interior etc etc.

The world is you oyster.

I would say £1000 will buy you something pretty nice, but don't forget that SWB and tax exempt models carry a premium.

Heres some of my Landie Loves:


'58 Series 2 LWB Pick up (ex military)
Bought for £120, dragged from the garden it had sat in for years, given some tlc and given an MoT.
Sold for £900.


Russell's old SIII ex-army beast


Another LWB pick up. This one was much better. 1968 ex-Australia (no rust! yay!!)

And my current one....

1972 Series 3 (tax exempt S3's are pretty rare!)
Rotten chassis, holey bulkhead, dirty and smelly.
Generally everything that can be knackered on a Landie IS on this one.
Need to get cracking really.

Have had two...a '75 Lightweight like this one:

and a normal 88" petrol. The Lightweights are GREAT fun, the most basic and comfort-free of all Land-Rovers, but carry a price premium these days (call it a Scene Tax if you will) and even a sha**ed one will cost well over £1000 with minters costing four times that figure.

Best bet for a first-timer is probably a post-1981 Series 3 SWB with 5-bearing crank 2.25 petrol. Being a S3 means that it has the relative luxury of synchromesh on all four gears and something approaching a proper dash, and the 5brg crank engines are a bit smoother than the earlier ones.

Landys are an acquired taste, you will either love or hate it.....but one of the only motors that live up to all the hype IMHO.

Brian

Landies are great, I must get round to getting an early pickup for parts chasing. A friend of mine from the FFOC has a 90 van with a beemer straight six in it - it is simply sensational!

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