Thread: Need HELP to locate a 1973 Series III Landy

In June 1999, I sold my 1973 Series III LWB Land Rover to a Mr Ray Trott, I think of Rosebud, Victoria. He was going to restore it. It was an LWB, 2L or 2.25L manual, Serial Number 97300001A, Engine number 13 00333A. Colour was Cambridge Blue with a cream hard top.
A picture of it is attached (I hope!!) on the day it left for Rosebud.
All efforts to trace this vehicle and Mr Trott have proven to be difficult to say the least.
If anyone can help please contact me through this site, re this vehicle, as my son would like to repurchase it for sentimental reasons..

Thank you, John Isles.

Thanks Mick
We should never have parted with it as it is a piece of LR history, being the first LR fully built in Australia.
Up until then (1973) the chassis were fully imported and the bodies were CKD'd and put onto the chassis here in Australia.
Our LWB had the chassis made in Australia from Aussie steel and it and also its sister SWB (Serial #97300001
Both were built at Pressed Metal Corporation (PMC) in Sydney to test the jigs.
Then they were driven around NSW for testing.
Both were then dismantled back at PMC and inspected to pass the chassis jigs for production.
Mmy father-in-law was the M.D. of PMC at the time and we had both of the Landy's on his property in the country NSW.
He purchased them as they could not be sold through the trade for obvious reasons

We offered them both to LRA (on his death) but they were not interested in them. I think if they had been Toyotas, and we offered them back to Toyo, they would have jumped at them.

Ray Trott contacted me a few times after wards, as he was restoring it, asking questions about some of the things he found.
But I lost all of his contact details in a computer crash with no back up....

So we will continue. At least we have the pictures and the memory (ies).

With best regards

John Isles