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Well...as some of you may have read before, I have been looking for a Defender for a few weeks and at last yesterday I bought one!
Called her "Tango"![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Think I got a good deal though, this used to be a land rover garage run about... it's a J plate (92) with a Disco engine in it.
Chassi is solid, floors and rear x member, bulkead is good too!
The door bottoms are rotten, but other than that is quite good.
The engine pulls like a train, I can actually drive in 5th gear, get to 70mph, loads of power going uphill.. fekin brilliant!
I paid just over 2,5k... considering I've been watching defenders on ebay for the last weeks, going for close to 3k and they are 1986-88...I think I did pretty well..
First things to do is get rid of that tyre on the bonnet, put my disco tyres on it and get a snorkel..
it currently has a conic K&N on it, so I need to get a air filter housing off a disco 200 and get a snorkel too...
Here's some pics just taken outside my house today..![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Called her "Tango"
Think I got a good deal though, this used to be a land rover garage run about... it's a J plate (92) with a Disco engine in it.
Chassi is solid, floors and rear x member, bulkead is good too!
The door bottoms are rotten, but other than that is quite good.
The engine pulls like a train, I can actually drive in 5th gear, get to 70mph, loads of power going uphill.. fekin brilliant!
I paid just over 2,5k... considering I've been watching defenders on ebay for the last weeks, going for close to 3k and they are 1986-88...I think I did pretty well..
First things to do is get rid of that tyre on the bonnet, put my disco tyres on it and get a snorkel..
it currently has a conic K&N on it, so I need to get a air filter housing off a disco 200 and get a snorkel too...
Here's some pics just taken outside my house today..
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