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Simon Isaacs

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MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
pictures and info can be found at
http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
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Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Commercial Officer
Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Fiancée's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
1979 Range Ruster body shell and chassis
 
Simon Isaacs wrote:
> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
> pictures and info can be found at
> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm

Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets
from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an air-portable with a
hardtop.......


 
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Simon Isaacs wrote:
>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>> pictures and info can be found at
>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>
>Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets
>from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an air-portable with a
>hardtop.......
>

Did you see any with K&N filters or parabolic springs?

I'm not sure what your point is.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70
 
Tim Hobbs wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Simon Isaacs wrote:
>>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>>> pictures and info can be found at
>>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>>
>> Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green
>> Jackets from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an
>> air-portable with a hardtop.......
>>
>
> Did you see any with K&N filters or parabolic springs?
>
> I'm not sure what your point is.

Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD


 
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:10:29 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> made me spill my meths when he
wrote:

>> I'm not sure what your point is.
>
>Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD
>
We've been sussed Tim, you could have gone and bought one of them
surplus MOD lightweights instead of making your own inflatable one. I
just >knew< I'd seen them somewhere else.

Oh well, might as well get rid of this now....
<pulls out plug on inflatable Pink Panther>

Martyn gonna be ****ed, you know how long it took Charlotte to blow up
those tyres on Grumble?
--
Wayne Davies - Mobile 07989 556213 - Harrogate, N.Yorks, UK
 
On Thursday, in article <[email protected]>
[email protected]lid "Gordon" wrote:

> Simon Isaacs wrote:
> > MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
> > pictures and info can be found at
> > http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>
> Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets
> from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an air-portable with a
> hardtop.......

I've seen a few, still in military cammo, at a dealers. They had 24v
electrics and the arctic heater system, with the batteries moved to
boxes at the back of the rear wheel arches, with access from inside.

My guess is Royal Marines.

The hardtop seemed to be the standard Series III type.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"I am Number Two," said Penfold. "You are Number Six."
 
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:10:29 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD

No, they, like the 101, were only made for the military market - the
MOD being but one customer. Not sure why you think they're all 'soft
tops' though, based purely upon never actually having seen one.

 
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:10:29 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Tim Hobbs wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Simon Isaacs wrote:
>>>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>>>> pictures and info can be found at
>>>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>>>
>>> Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green
>>> Jackets from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an
>>> air-portable with a hardtop.......
>>>
>>
>> Did you see any with K&N filters or parabolic springs?
>>
>> I'm not sure what your point is.
>
>Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD
>

I still don't see your point....

are you saying it isn't a lightweight?
--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70
 
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> scribbled the following nonsense:

>Simon Isaacs wrote:
>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>> pictures and info can be found at
>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>
>Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets
>from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an air-portable with a
>hardtop.......
>

If you read the book about the Lightweight, it does show pictures of
some with hardtops.
--

Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Commercial Officer
Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
1979 Range Ruster body shell and chassis
 
On or around Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Simon Isaacs wrote:
>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>> pictures and info can be found at
>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>
>Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green Jackets
>from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an air-portable with a
>hardtop.......
>

so? nothing says you can't fit one. Actually, ISTR they don't quite fit,
but that's another story.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
 
On or around Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:26:04 +0100, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:10:29 +0100, "Gordon"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Tim Hobbs wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simon Isaacs wrote:
>>>>> MySeries 3 Lightweight is for sale. It has been fully restored,
>>>>> pictures and info can be found at
>>>>> http://www.peterborough4x4.btinternet.co.uk/lwtwt.htm
>>>>
>>>> Having served in the Royal Engineers, Light Infantry and Royal Green
>>>> Jackets from 1974 to 1989 I don't EVER remember seeing an
>>>> air-portable with a hardtop.......
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you see any with K&N filters or parabolic springs?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what your point is.
>>
>>Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD
>>
>
>I still don't see your point....
>
>are you saying it isn't a lightweight?

actually, strictly, it's not a lightweight. weighs almost exactly the same
as the equivalent standard vehicle, AIUI. mainly, it's narrower and thus
fits in the aeroplane.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards
too" Sir Francis Drake (1540? - 1596) Attr. saying when the Armarda was
sighted, 20th July 1588
 

>>
>>are you saying it isn't a lightweight?
>
>actually, strictly, it's not a lightweight. weighs almost exactly the same
>as the equivalent standard vehicle, AIUI. mainly, it's narrower and thus
>fits in the aeroplane.

Well, it is 'a lightweight'. It is not, per se, lightweight.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70
 
In message <[email protected]>
Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> >>
> >>are you saying it isn't a lightweight?
> >
> >actually, strictly, it's not a lightweight. weighs almost exactly the same
> >as the equivalent standard vehicle, AIUI. mainly, it's narrower and thus
> >fits in the aeroplane.
>
> Well, it is 'a lightweight'. It is not, per se, lightweight.
>
>

It is a lightweight when stripped down. It was designed so that things
like doors could be got off in a hurry, so it would be light enough
to be carried by a Wessex 3 helicopter. The size was dictated by being
able to get two on an Argosy aircraft. When it was delvered the Wessex
3 had been relaced by the Wessex 5, which could lift a standard LR,
and the Argosy had been replaced by the Hercules. What joy......

Richard
--
www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
Running a business in a Microsoft free environment - it can be done
Powered by Risc-OS - you won't get a virus from us!!
Helping keep Land Rovers on and off the road to annoy the Lib Dems
 
Yeah but thing is with a landie mechano and all that you can do what you
like with them so far as body options are concerned.


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes





"Gordon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Tim Hobbs wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:47:42 +0100, "Gordon"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Airportables (or lightweights) were only made (AFAIK) for the MOD
>
>


 
Such underpowered helicopters and slim aircraft the Russkis and there
Antonovs would never have put up with that. You wanna shift sommat bulky get
an Antonov (so long as it does not fall apart in mid flight)


--
Larry
Series 3 rust and holes




"beamendsltd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:81520a44d%[email protected]...
> In message <[email protected]>
> Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It is a lightweight when stripped down. It was designed so that things
> like doors could be got off in a hurry, so it would be light enough
> to be carried by a Wessex 3 helicopter. The size was dictated by being
> able to get two on an Argosy aircraft. When it was delvered the Wessex
> 3 had been relaced by the Wessex 5, which could lift a standard LR,
> and the Argosy had been replaced by the Hercules. What joy......
>
> Richard
> --
> www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
> Running a business in a Microsoft free environment - it can be done
> Powered by Risc-OS - you won't get a virus from us!!
> Helping keep Land Rovers on and off the road to annoy the Lib Dems


 
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:00:55 +0100, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>Well, it is 'a lightweight'. It is not, per se, lightweight.

Yeah - but could a mere mortal handle such a fine beast?

 
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:17:10 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> so? nothing says you can't fit one. Actually, ISTR they don't quite fit,
>> but that's another story.
>
>Genuine parts then!

You're confusing "doesn't fit" with "falls off randomly"

 
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:38:00 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:00:55 +0100, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Well, it is 'a lightweight'. It is not, per se, lightweight.
>
>Yeah - but could a mere mortal handle such a fine beast?

Not this one I'm afraid! I'd have to deal with another fine beast in
full flight if I did...

I reckon the funds from the 101 will just about cover the work I want
to do on Stig and a couple of pieces of fine glassware...


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'03 Volvo V70
 
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:57:08 +0100, Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>Not this one I'm afraid! I'd have to deal with another fine beast in
>full flight if I did...

Yeah, pretty much understand that, having recently mentioned a
Vampire...

 
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