Defender "tuning" the German way...

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Martin IJspeert

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• Dec 25, 2004

• #1

Welllll, it is shiny.......

http://www.kabel1.de/php-bin/scripts/cgalerie/cgalerie.php?gal=k1
_info_auto_de_landyaufbau_defender_ende&bild=1&skin=331

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Dec 26, 2004

• #2

On or around Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:45:15 +0000, Mr.Nice.
<markvarleyphoto@*nospam*softhome.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:53:47 +0000 (UTC), Martin IJspeert
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Welllll, it is shiny.......
>>
>>http://www.kabel1.de/php-bin/script..._de_landyaufbau_defender_ende&bild=1&skin=331
>
>You know, I kinda like that......

I sometimes had thoughts about polishing one. LR used to have a special
show model SIII which they took around which was polished. 'course,
ideally, you'd get the bulkhead and steel body parts chromed.

what put me off really, though, was the amount of polishing that'd be needed
to keep it looking shiny like that.

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"'Tis a mad world, my masters" John Taylor (1580-1633) Western Voyage, 1

 

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Johannes Fontaine

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• Dec 26, 2004

• #3

Hi!

> There is a series 1 in town here, working vehicle, belongs to a
> mechanic that works on the fishing boat engines, it's bare metal and
> was once polished I'm sure but is now rather dull looking.

You should know that the german Landrover in the pictures has a varnishing, it's not bare polished Metal!
I'm from Germany and I saw the report about that landy and it's some kind of a very special varnish with silver in it...
I don't really know if that is better than polished stainless steel, but i guess it's easier to keep it shiny...

cu

johannes

 

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Larry

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• Dec 26, 2004

• #4

The finish on those De Loreans doesn't look that good close up, and most
stainless steels will rust eventually. Now how about silver plating, theres
an idea I believe that certain Maharajahs in India have gone to those
lengths in the past.

I have a few bits of shiny metal on my landie, where the paint has flaked
off. many more corroded ones though.


"Johannes Fontaine" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi!
>
> You should know that the german Landrover in the pictures has a
varnishing, it's not bare polished Metal!
> I'm from Germany and I saw the report about that landy and it's some kind
of a very special varnish with silver in it...
> I don't really know if that is better than polished stainless steel, but i
guess it's easier to keep it shiny...
>
> cu
>
> johannes
>

 

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fergus.kendall

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• Dec 26, 2004

• #5

> You should know that the german Landrover in the pictures has a
varnishing, it's not bare polished Metal!
> I'm from Germany and I saw the report about that landy and it's some kind
of a very special varnish with silver in it...
> I don't really know if that is better than polished stainless steel, but i
guess it's easier to keep it shiny...
>
> cu
>
> johannes
>

I thought about doing a Defender in polished ali like in the pictures and
researched into the posibilities of laquering it. There is a very expensive
etch laquer I found which would have done the job, never got round to trying
it though. Screwfix do an aerosol of etch laquer cheap, not tried that but i
imagine it's quite crap, was going to do my range rover door handles that I
polished up.

Fergus

 

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Dave Liquorice

Guest

• Dec 26, 2004

• #6

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:42:09 -0000, Larry wrote:

> Now how about silver plating,

Silver tarnishes something rotten, reacts with sulphur to produce
black sulphides.

> theres an idea I believe that certain Maharajahs in India have gone
> to those lengths in the past.

But have umpteen minions to keep it polished and can afford to have it
replated...

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