Solihull to begin restoration of older Land Rovers.

Good quality S1/S2/S3 and early 90/110/127 have gone up in price dramatically over the last year or so, we have some very good rust free landys here that are perfect for export, What Land Rover are doing is a good thing, theres plenty of people who are happy to pay for a fully restored land rover, and if it came from LR at least you have some confidence it was not a back yard bitsa.

Take Ken Wheelwright up in Yorkshire, he's only ever done 7 rebuilds I think next one up is from Australia, as are a lot of the parts for the rebuild.

Its a very different market here compared to Europe, and theres more of a fix it in my shed mentality here, probably gose back to the war years when materials were short and you had to make do.

But I have seen Series Landys here for sale 30K+ its down to what people want to pay.

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Originally Posted by 123rover50

If they build them as new, they have to comply with all the regs such as emission standards, seat belts etc.
By rebuilding an existing one all they need is the chassis number and build a new car around it.

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Ahh pesky regs! Whatever 😎 ...so really you just need the original chassis, and you can build a new series one on that. Now there's an export opportunity for farmers!

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Originally Posted by MrLandy

Ahh pesky regs! Whatever 😎 ...so really you just need the original chassis, and you can build a new series one on that. Now there's an export opportunity for farmers!

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There was a mob in Melbourne doing that with Mustangs. You supply the ID plates and they build for you a brand new '65 Mustang.

To link this to another thread, maybe an industry could evolve here doing the same with superceded police vehicles , and therefore no need to import new. For my wishes I would at this stage rather spend money on a complete rebuild of my D2 than buy anything new.

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Originally Posted by harry

So, are we trying to force the market value of s1's up with this?

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Gee, I hope so, I have a SI that I would consider a good offer on, regards Frank.

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Originally Posted by juddy

Good quality S1/S2/S3 and early 90/110/127 have gone up in price dramatically over the last year or so, we have some very good rust free landys here that are perfect for export, What Land Rover are doing is a good thing, theres plenty of people who are happy to pay for a fully restored land rover, and if it came from LR at least you have some confidence it was not a back yard bitsa.

Take Ken Wheelwright up in Yorkshire, he's only ever done 7 rebuilds I think next one up is from Australia, as are a lot of the parts for the rebuild.

Its a very different market here compared to Europe, and theres more of a fix it in my shed mentality here, probably gose back to the war years when materials were short and you had to make do.

But I have seen Series Landys here for sale 30K+ its down to what people want to pay.

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Someone once said they don't make 1948 model 80's anymore and another piped up and suggested that Ken's been doing it for years! ;)

Apparently he decided that he wanted to have a truck like the original Foden or whatever truck that the Rover Co Ltd used to transport the Land Rovers to the dealers.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

So he found a truck of the same type and built one, at one of the shows someone came up and said that he had a truck just like Ken's. The actual original, I believe that Ken now has two.

I got told today of a Discovery1, 2 door, 300tdi that lasted only 24hours on Evilbay.
It's getting shipped back to the UK and word is the buyer is doing this regularly.
To where in the UK and what for was not discussed at the sale.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Someone once said they don't make 1948 model 80's anymore and another piped up and suggested that Ken's been doing it for years! ;)

Apparently he decided that he wanted to have a truck like the original Foden or whatever truck that the Rover Co Ltd used to transport the Land Rovers to the dealers.

http://www.series2club.co.uk/pages/v...ransporter.JPG

So he found a truck of the same type and built one, at one of the shows someone came up and said that he had a truck just like Ken's. The actual original, I believe that Ken now has two.

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That looks like a Leyland Beaver.

As I understand it, Solihull will be simply rebuilding existing vehicles, not creating a new one, so IMHO these "rebuilt' vehicles wouldn't have to comply with current regs any more than a continually used S1 has to.
From what I've read, early Discos are VERY prone to rust in the U.K.,..damp, salty roads, etc etc, so I can see why relatively rust free Aussie ones would be good value over there.
Pickles.