DuckSherminator
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Howdy folks,
It took me longer than it should've, but I finally got myself a Landy (that runs)! Pretty much a textbook example of a compulsive buy, but I wouldn't have bought if it weren't for a buddy of mine who knows the owner and basically maintained this car its whole life. What I'm saying is that it shouldn't be a lemon.
Here she is:
It's a one owner car (well, two once I've registered it), the guy lives in the Liège area in Belgium but used it to drive down to Corsica regularly, there's like 9 Corsica Ferries stickers on the rear windows!
It seems to be in fairly good shape, for what it's worth it just passed the french MOT (it's on french plates at the moment), and from what I could observe, drives just fine. No weird noises or wobbles, shifts in and out of low-high and center diff lock just fine.
No chequer plates for me was a definite plus, I hate them, 99% of the time they just hide crap.
She'll need some attention on the chassis, rear crossmember is "puffing up" at the seem between the 2 bits (will need some welding at some stage), I'm guessing this is a classic, I've seen it a couple of times. Rear seats crossmember has also seen better days, but that's a bolt on I think, so "easy" fix. Other than those points, I didn't see anything alarming... I'll definetly give it a good coat of Dinitrol or some other rust protection coating before every winter to try and preserve it.
Bulkhead seemed surprisingly good, its just starting to bubble slightly on the top left hand side. I hope I'm not too late, but I'll try to treat it best I can.
Doors and other body panels don't seem corroded, but the roof has a pretty big ding on the back, dude backed up into something.
She's bog standard, literally no extra bits anywhere (I think?). I like it. She did come with AC (doesn't work), butt warmers and an open roof.
If you guys have any advice, feel free to share.
Looking forward to cruising around with her!
It took me longer than it should've, but I finally got myself a Landy (that runs)! Pretty much a textbook example of a compulsive buy, but I wouldn't have bought if it weren't for a buddy of mine who knows the owner and basically maintained this car its whole life. What I'm saying is that it shouldn't be a lemon.
Here she is:
It's a one owner car (well, two once I've registered it), the guy lives in the Liège area in Belgium but used it to drive down to Corsica regularly, there's like 9 Corsica Ferries stickers on the rear windows!
It seems to be in fairly good shape, for what it's worth it just passed the french MOT (it's on french plates at the moment), and from what I could observe, drives just fine. No weird noises or wobbles, shifts in and out of low-high and center diff lock just fine.
No chequer plates for me was a definite plus, I hate them, 99% of the time they just hide crap.
She'll need some attention on the chassis, rear crossmember is "puffing up" at the seem between the 2 bits (will need some welding at some stage), I'm guessing this is a classic, I've seen it a couple of times. Rear seats crossmember has also seen better days, but that's a bolt on I think, so "easy" fix. Other than those points, I didn't see anything alarming... I'll definetly give it a good coat of Dinitrol or some other rust protection coating before every winter to try and preserve it.
Bulkhead seemed surprisingly good, its just starting to bubble slightly on the top left hand side. I hope I'm not too late, but I'll try to treat it best I can.
Doors and other body panels don't seem corroded, but the roof has a pretty big ding on the back, dude backed up into something.
She's bog standard, literally no extra bits anywhere (I think?). I like it. She did come with AC (doesn't work), butt warmers and an open roof.
If you guys have any advice, feel free to share.
Looking forward to cruising around with her!
