"I thought old Land Rovers were going for big money these days. It must have been pretty knackered if you only got £1250 for it. A mate of mine just sold a Series 1 Landy that was an incomplete basket case for about twice that amount."
it was knackered Cam, the body was literally dissolving, but what sold it was the galvanized chassis that I installed in 1988, using most of the original safari (twin skin roof) body. What degraded it further was that I was running a Perkins 4.182 (same as MazdaT3000) diesel and Chrysler three speed automatic transmission, with H/R Range Rover transfer box, the galv chassis being made to suit these items, I never broke a trans in 250,000 miles, but previously broke many stock manuals, some in as little as 10,000 hence the change, the engine would pull like a train, and did at one time tow 32 tonnes of artic while he still had air, and a 7 tonner out of a muddy field, where the previous attempts had left the chassis grounded, a true workhorse, my competitors were buying new Transits every three years or so, and were limited in what they could do with them. I was considering the full monty rebuild, for nostalgia reasons, but got sensible and bed boxed the cash.
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