Thread: What To Do With This 1983 County?

Well, I reckon I'd fix it up. Then again, I have never managed to sell a car once I owned it, so maybe I am not the best peron to advise anybody. If it is such an early 110, then yeah it might be quite significant. Don't rush into anything.



John

An '83 110 would have to be pretty damn early in the piece, they were still making leaf sprung vehicles in 83 as far as I know. Is it a CKD build?
While some vehicles are worth saving for historic value only, the sad truth is some are beyond help and are best used to assist in the resto of other vehicles.
Another issue is, the vehicle is likely not of historical value to a collector/enthusiast for another 10+ years until V8 One-Tens become somewhat rarer. There are still 120s being sacrificed for Rangie conversions and they are arguably one of the rarest production coiler Landies around.


The major identity of the vehicle is the chassis, so if that is salvageable, then the rest can be made up from other 80's vehicles, even the doors are potentially available in the guise of Army 110 bottoms.

Do you know any of its history? Personal import, demonstrator vehicle etc?

No, I would put the doors on ebay for one million dollars, since they're rare and all that.

It was a personal import. Built in England, but brought in from South Africa by, (I was told), a South African. You can just make out a sticker from, if I remember, Joyce Garage in England, which I did a search on and is still going.

It is rebuildable, it would just be one of those long, expensive, time-consuming rebuilds, like with any other Landie. But one day it could be worth it since it is a good, original example of a very basic Land Rover, but one with the coils and front discs and V8 and strong gearbox that you wish they'd put on Series Landies.

In my view it would be worth rebuilding, as 110s that early (two piece doors for example) are very rare in Australia. A couple of questions - does it have power steering? this was optional on 110s, but was fitted to all civilian ones in this country. What seats does it have?

John

G'day Davo

I agree with JDNSW that it would be worth saving, the AA in the chassis No indicates it is a Sulihull built vehicle and 0385 would indicate the 384th vehicle built,(all production starts @00001) it would be well worth keeping,the first 110's didn't arrive in the Australian showrooms until late 83 early 84. is it the dark "Russet Brown" I also can't remember the early 110's having sliding windows,as the wind-up windows was a selling point


cheers

Originally Posted by JDNSW

does it have power steering? this was optional on 110s, but was fitted to all civilian ones in this country.
John

Except for early 120"s which came with armstrong steering