Lockdown Restoration Project

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Lockdown Restoration Project

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Imported this from Australia and spent 10months restoring it.
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Bloody hell, you had your work cut out there, was there much of the original car left at the end? Cracking job though!! :thumbs:

House looks nice too !
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Lovely Job Andy, I had an early series 2 some years ago and like a total fool I sold it on instead of just parking it up in a shed for a while.

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The car is still 90% original. The front wings were replaced with better second hand ones, everything else was restored. The Chassis and bulkhead were in good condition and were sandblasted and galvanised.
The engine was a mess but saveable. All in all its pretty good for a 1953 car.

Its amazing what you can do with plenty of time and a bit of determination !

it was good to get my boys involved as well.

I also have a Series 2a, 1970, that I restored a couple of years back, its a bit easier to drive than the Series 1.
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coopercollector wrote: Tue Jan 19 2021 16:40 -
The car is still 90% original. The front wings were replaced with better second hand ones, everything else was restored. The Chassis and bulkhead were in good condition and were sandblasted and galvanised.
The engine was a mess but saveable. All in all its pretty good for a 1953 car.

Its amazing what you can do with plenty of time and a bit of determination !

it was good to get my boys involved as well.

I also have a Series 2a, 1970, that I restored a couple of years back, its a bit easier to drive than the Series 1.
Nice job! Great to work on simple classic design!
Looks like you have thrown a few quid at the old girl! :thumbs:
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Lovely. Was it that model that had a option of a pto ? I drive past a Landy that has a pto and have always wondered when they were fitted and why they stopped fitting them :thumbs:
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Your obviously a talented man
Who catches some nice fish as well. :thumbs:
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All 80" Land Rovers up to 1954 had the rear take off unit on the back of the gearbox (small lever with the black knob and the drive plate in the pic, accessed through a plate under the middle seat) but the extra rear prop and take off unit on the back end were an expensive option so not many were fitted.

Mine lacks the rear mounted unit at the mo, but I might fit one at a later date, funds allowing !
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Awesome job.
I had to look twice at least.
Needs a bit of mud on it now
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I like the fact the 2 nearest tools to hand are hammers , like to expand on that Andy ?

Nice project ... An iconic vehicle without a doubt.
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Hammers in various sizes were used to good effect throughout the restoration. These are not precision made machines !!
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coopercollector wrote: Wed Jan 20 2021 13:56 -
Hammers in various sizes were used to good effect throughout the restoration. These are not precision made machines !!

Isn't that the beauty... Remember having to stamp the floor on the rangerover to get the fuel pump pumping, quirks !
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thats incredible, all ive done all lockdown is masturbate
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:laughs: :laughs: :laughs: :laughs:
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andrew_nagel wrote: Thu Jan 21 2021 23:17 -
Andrew Croft wrote: Thu Jan 21 2021 23:00 -
thats incredible, all ive done all lockdown is masturbate
We'll stick to photos of Andy's lockdown project if you don't mind Crofty!
I'll PM them later
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Credit to you. I’ve owned a 1958 series two in past before they became gold dust and silly money. Looks good next to her stable mate.
This will come in handy even if I never use it.
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