Ex Coastguard Landy

Hi all
We have just bought an ex coastguard 1984 Series 3 Landy and are trying to find out some history so we can put her back to original colours etc. We contacted Heritage Motor Centre who told us it was dispatched to Stirling and gave us another contact there. Unfortunately they had no records of her.
I have also joined the 24/7 Lifeboat and Coastguard forum in the hope that someone may have driven her in the past!
If anybody has any knowledge about her or has any bright ideas about what to do next to get more info it would be much appreciated.
Cheers

No idea I am afraid but probably not much different to how it is now is my guess.

No point repeating what I said on 24/7! One thing I can add is the pic below

Ah them were the days when we had proper vehicles to do the job - Happy days

PembsLandy said:

Ah them were the days when we had proper vehicles to do the job - Happy days

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LOL, do you remember the last one we had?? Light bar would fall back, doors would open by themselves cos of the chassis flexing, damn thing was held together by luck and a prayer!!

Still great piece of kit compared to the Brava we got then!! Even the highlux is better than that!!

crazymac said:

LOL, do you remember the last one we had?? Light bar would fall back, doors would open by themselves cos of the chassis flexing, damn thing was held together by luck and a prayer!!

Still great piece of kit compared to the Brava we got then!! Even the highlux is better than that!!

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I remember being able to the road through the floor quite clearly. !! However it was slighly more capable than the astravan it replaced and 10 times better than the bravo.

I am a Coastguard Station Officer, my team used to have B896 OJT from around 1990 until its retirement in 1995. This was when my father was Station Officer. The B *** OJT batch were as far as I'm aware the last batch of CG series III as the Landrover 90 suddenly starting appearing.

Contact me at bradders13 at hotmail dot com if you would like a photo of a B896 OJT with its livery as the photo on the thread further up is different. They were unusual in that they were the first batch of CG Landrovers not to have side windows in the back. Reading an old Coastguard handbook it became the norm not having the windows in the side at around that time. Yours seems to have met an angle grinder at some point.

bradders13 said:

I am a Coastguard Station Officer, my team used to have B896 OJT from around 1990 until its retirement in 1995.

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What team are you SO for?

Pembslandy above is on the Fishguard team and I was on the same team for 18 years.

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Reading an old Coastguard handbook it became the norm not having the windows in the side at around that time.

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Old coastguard handbook, any chance of it being scanned, or is it obtainable anywhere?

I have a 1980 SIII ex-coastguard landy fhv 881v, which did service in Kent, and I am having difficulty finding anything out about the coastguard landrovers.

I also have a B*** OJT EX CG landrover, and to this point have hit brick walls everyway i turn regarding the history

Does anyone remember the S3 Landy or possibly Def90 that was reversed over a cliff at Eyemouth in the early 1990's? It was written off but restored by someone.

I have GYX 875W liberated from a yard near Haywards Heath. Another GYX...W came up on ebay a couple of years ago still looking coastguard-like. Apparently they were working at Folkstone in the eighties. Mine's been thoroughly abused & has lost the roof, sides, tailgates, winch to replacements. It has lwb wheels although it is swb. Even last week we were still finding sand in the engine bay! It has a new career as a much-loved character & steam rally support vehicle but there's so much to restore to original, & as mentioned, so little historical info that for now we're just preserving it. You can still see the door decal ovals in certain lights.
Despite being a girl. sorry, ancient old cow that shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel(!) I've owned a fair few performance vehicles & driven some amazing vintage/classic characters but for all the idiosyncracies (not to be confused with idiot-syncromesh which is mostly non existent) of my landy & it's interesting, variable versions of steering & braking (& breaking), there's nothing I trust more to safeguard precious cargo towing whether it be my horse or Himself's half-scale steam-traction engine. Not much else will drag everyone elses van/trailer ensembles out of a water-logged rally field either. Think what it could do if I knew how to drive it!

hi there I also have an ex coastguard s111 in lovely original condition but with a galvanised chassis it has original capston winch horns lights etc I also am coming up with a blank on its history it has an a...sym reg no I have been told I could have possibly been used in oben Scotland but can not comfirm but it lives nr Maidstone in kent now

crashbox said:

Does anyone remember the S3 Landy or possibly Def90 that was reversed over a cliff at Eyemouth in the early 1990's? It was written off but restored by someone.

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I remember a feature about it in a 4x4 mag even had a pic of it at the bottom of the cliff.

bradders13 said:

I am a Coastguard Station Officer, my team used to have B896 OJT from around 1990 until its retirement in 1995. Reading an old Coastguard handbook it became the norm not having the windows in the side at around that time. Yours seems to have met an angle grinder at some point.

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Hi bradders, When the 90 came out in 84 Land rover continued series production for about another year to finish contracts to utility company's/government and all the ones I have seen have the "blind" hard top but why that was I don't know.Have even seen the odd 90 with one.

I am Station officer Fishguard and remember that shed of a series 3 Pembslandy/Crazymac mention, but it was still miles better than that bleep bleep van