I love a road trip me. 😃
I have, however, spent a few idle hours tonight looking at videos on YouTube about them. They do look to be excruciatingly badly thrown together as far as the bodywork is concerned. Brand new ones with rusty streaks from body seams are not my idea of fun. As a dirt cheap disposable workhorse I think they’re fantastic, particularly if you lived in a part of the world where you could either reliably source spare parts, or could get away with bodging stuff to keep one mobile without worrying about MoT tests or plod. But as a long term prospect to run in the UK instead of the Land-Rover? Probably not. I don’t think that I could watch one deteriorate the way I think they would inevitably do. You might be able to slow the decay, but I don’t think you’ll stop it. They look to have the same kind of built in rust traps that were common in cars and vans forty or fifty years ago, with the same results on longevity.
Shame, because they look like a hoot to drive, and the modern engine should make one almost daily-able if you wanted to. I think the salt on our roads would be their death knell though.
I have, however, spent a few idle hours tonight looking at videos on YouTube about them. They do look to be excruciatingly badly thrown together as far as the bodywork is concerned. Brand new ones with rusty streaks from body seams are not my idea of fun. As a dirt cheap disposable workhorse I think they’re fantastic, particularly if you lived in a part of the world where you could either reliably source spare parts, or could get away with bodging stuff to keep one mobile without worrying about MoT tests or plod. But as a long term prospect to run in the UK instead of the Land-Rover? Probably not. I don’t think that I could watch one deteriorate the way I think they would inevitably do. You might be able to slow the decay, but I don’t think you’ll stop it. They look to have the same kind of built in rust traps that were common in cars and vans forty or fifty years ago, with the same results on longevity.
Shame, because they look like a hoot to drive, and the modern engine should make one almost daily-able if you wanted to. I think the salt on our roads would be their death knell though.