Recent content by rob312555

another update on the series, shes coming on nicely been doing a fair bit of painting recently. i have gone for stratos blue bought from the paintman, hes only in retford so not far away. iv found this stuff a bit hard to use im used to modern basecoat colors and the likes which in comparison...

i do all the welding myself, im pretty much self taught, iv had plenty of practise with my other project a 1950s morris oxford :) and the nut yes i never really thought about that but true would make it easier even tho i had to chop the old one off haha

so i have done a bit more today, received the bulkhead bolts so could get the rest of outrigger finished off plus done a bit of painting to the bulkhead, rear door and few other bits. here are the pics so on with this outrigger repair with all the old stuff cut out started to fab up the...

yeah its pretty good, its spent all its life on a small holding type thing with the same owners from new so its pretty genuine, it just needs tidying up really. i totally agree with you samc88 no such thing as quick resto theres always something, and then theres often the money issue haha, this...

so iv recently bought a series 3 swb because i was offered it at a resonable price moted, taxed and the lot. generally not in bad condition just needs a few things sorting, it managed a 200 mile from down south without any major issues, shes a trooper! unfortunately i cant drive her yet as...

looks clean enough, those seats must be new looks like its never been sat in!

started stripping down my series 3, to see what il find, i know the bulkhead has been patched before so figured i would take a look, with the bonnet and wings off i could see the inner mudguards had been patched before, the nearside pretty badly not even bothered painting new panel???? so...

Not quite that far up north I'm from doncaster :)

i have just recently bought my 1st series 3 land rover, its a 1977 88" hardtop, with 58 thousand on the clock. quite tidy but needs a bit of work. its come from down south where its spent all its life until a few weeks ago when it made the 200 mile journey up north, no real problems apart...