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dizzysteamer · Post by **dizzysteamer** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:52 am

My late Dad owned a land rover from as far back as my memories go consequently we have three in the family .
My own a 1958 series 2 swb had to come off the road 15 years back because of really bad rust worm. I detest the amount of electronics in modern cars I think vehicle tech as gone money mad home maintenance is going to be a thing of the past but with my old girl I can anything to her myself.

I started to rebuild her last year this is Sandy back then
http://s1073.photobucket.com/user/dizzy ... rt=1&o=131

And this is as far as I got today the bulkhead needs to go on next but its far to cold for me to work outside

http://s1073.photobucket.com/user/dizzy ... ort=1&o=14

Once she is up and running I can devote all my attention on our garden railway.

dizzysteamer☺

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 1:50 pm

Great project, I agree that modern cars are far too complex which is why I drive a couple of these.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:01 pm

Wonderful, a fellow L/R nut.
I have pair of SII's, one just out of MOT (needs a little patch on the chassis) and the other is stored halfway through a full rebuild. As an ex mechanic I agree with your comments about electrics.

MDLR · Post by **MDLR** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 7:04 pm

I used to work at the Derby Land Rover dealership. Myself and a couple of apprentices went to an Induction Day at Gaydon, and we looked at their early Series I. They were astonished at how little there was under the bonnet, compared with the modern ones they workd on.

Big Jim · Post by **Big Jim** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 8:05 pm

Anything with more than two fuses is too much like hard work.

If you want to confuse a newly "qualified" "mechanic" show them anything build before 1990.

I ran one of the few garages in the area that was happy to work on classic cars. It meant that we saw everything from real Minis to Rolls Royces and all things in between. Great fun and the boys had much more fun playing with real cars than modern euroboxes.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 9:05 pm

Big Jim:121980 wrote:Anything with more than two fuses is too much like hard work.

Now that's a blast-from-the-past and something I had forgotten about until you mentioned it, but it's true! I remember my 1955 Morris Minor ROH 503 (horrible thing) and my first, 1963, Mini, 123 JOV had only two fuses...... but they did the job. True to say there was a lot less to put through them, but who needs all that gubbins anyway? just more to go wrong!

H2o · Post by **H2o** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:08 pm

I like the A35, here's my A30

LNR · Post by **LNR** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:13 pm

My A30/35 is a slightly different shape.

Grant.

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Tue Jan 03, 2017 5:05 pm

H2o:121990 wrote:I like the A35, here's my A30

Very nice AS3
I do like them too

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Tue Jan 03, 2017 5:06 pm

LNR:121991 wrote:My A30/35 is a slightly different shape.

Grant.

I love the face on those

jim@NAL · Post by **jim@NAL** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:15 pm

now that's a fun project I love working on old cars so much fun to be had being able to do things yourself and no computer to deal with .looking at your photos it looks like you have a lot of projects

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Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:02 pm

My other car

invicta280 · Post by **invicta280** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:56 pm

Your garage is impressive Bryan

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