Practically Classics Forum

A mate popped round earlier this morning. He's having a period radio restored here for his rare GRP monocoque Willoughby caravan which he'll be towing to shows behind this rather sexy object, a 1955 86" S1 Land Rover in the almost inevitable Bronze Green:








It has its correct, 2 litre IoE engine and, apart from a period heater, is totally as original inside too. That engine was barely audible as he drove off. I need one of these! There are some period auto conversions around so anything's possible..

unfortunatelly you need a lottery win to afford a decent one nowdays.

Bargains are still to be had. I'm sworn to secrecy regarding exactly how little he gave for this 86" specimen, but suffice it to say that the price wouldn't have bought an averagely worn out, ten year old repmobile. I don't know what made me more envious; the car itself or the ridiculously tiny amount of wonga that matey gave for the privilege of becoming its owner.

But when he bought it in 1965 it was a 10 year old repmobile

having driven lots of landrovers i really cannot see the attraction

It depends what you are after rich. If you want something quick, comfortable, quiet, refined, warm and weatherproof then look somewhere else. If however you want something with a great club scene, recognised by every person in the country, plentiful spares, able to pull a trailer across a muddy field and when (rather than if) it breaks down being able to fix it with a potato: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... OTATO.html
Then an old landy is great.

I can just imagine the conversation that I'll be having when the veg man comes round tomorrow:

Me - "Hey Fin, give me three pounds of potatoes please."
Veg man - "Nae bother, which d'you fancy, Bannock Russets is it, or I've some lovely looking cobblers and a pink eye or two?"
Me - "None of these mate, have you any two microFarad ones at six hundred and thirty Volts working please?"





The Daily Wail said it, so it must be true..

Lol! Is your mate a plumber, those heater connections look distinctly un-Rover.

Those are indeed plumbing fittings, he's a highly skilled engineer but one who can't stand to see leftovers going to waste. If it's any consolation, the heater itself is one of those round ones with a couple of hinged flaps that can be closed to keep all of that heat away from the passenger's legs in what passes for summer around here.

Greatham Show on sunday. they were expecting more but Bemish had a show and so did Richmond!



























































ok mother started drooling over a certain car (I could hear the voice in her head going "I want one again!")









































I hadn't realised that there was a glass partition behind the cabin at the certer pillar and the tailgate was hinged at that poimt