Thread: Look What I Pick Up Next Weekend

Looks nice

Looks nice - where did you find it, and we would probably all like to hear what you paid for it if willing to say!

You may find a hard top a bit hard to find - although I owned one 45 years ago, a lot were sold as soft tops. If you do find a hard top you can probably sell that hoop set for nearly as much as the hard top will cost!

Personally i would be looking for a heater - although they are pretty scarce too. With the heater a canvas top would be reasonable in Canberra. I can remember running out of petrol in the middle of the night in Guyra in the S1 - I had a jerrican of fuel, but it was too cold to get out and tip it in until it started to get cold inside (I had a heater - it was ex SMA).

John

just make sure you make it in time for Cooma now

looking forward to seeing it in real life ...........

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Looks nice - where did you find it, and we would probably all like to hear what you paid for it if willing to say!

You may find a hard top a bit hard to find - although I owned one 45 years ago, a lot were sold as soft tops. If you do find a hard top you can probably sell that hoop set for nearly as much as the hard top will cost!

Personally i would be looking for a heater - although they are pretty scarce too. With the heater a canvas top would be reasonable in Canberra. I can remember running out of petrol in the middle of the night in Guyra in the S1 - I had a jerrican of fuel, but it was too cold to get out and tip it in until it started to get cold inside (I had a heater - it was ex SMA).

John

I cost $1200 - not sure whether that is good or bad but is cheap for me to collect and given its originality, which was important to me, I am happy with it - it still has its generator and is still positive earth. The cold is bad news in Canberra - it is bad enough driving a diesel freelander to work as it takes ages for the engine to heat up and the heater just begins to work when I have arrived at work.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words - Cheers

Garry

Congratulations on buying your first Land Rover.

G'day All, Thats a good buy and should be an easy restoration, but I'm certain thats not a 2 litre engine, it looks more like the 1.6 overhead inlet side exhaust, the 2 litre engine looks like the 2 1/4 but with a few differences, I could be wrong as I'm no expert, anyway still a good project might see you at cooma if I'm not deceased cheers Dennis

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All, Thats a good buy and should be an easy restoration, but I'm certain thats not a 2 litre engine, it looks more like the 1.6 overhead inlet side exhaust, the 2 litre engine looks like the 2 1/4 but with a few differences, I could be wrong as I'm no expert, anyway still a good project might see you at cooma if I'm not deceased cheers Dennis

Re the engine - I will soon find out for sure when I get it - the engine number is 111713562 so if someone is able to tell me I would appreciate it.

Garry

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All, Thats a good buy and should be an easy restoration, but I'm certain thats not a 2 litre engine, it looks more like the 1.6 overhead inlet side exhaust, the 2 litre engine looks like the 2 1/4 but with a few differences, I could be wrong as I'm no expert, anyway still a good project might see you at cooma if I'm not deceased cheers Dennis

The 1.6 and the two 2.0 litre petrol engines look almost identical - key is the carbie on the right and exhaust on the left (inlet valves in the head, exhaust valves in the block). I think you must be thinking of the 2.0 diesel, which, since it is the first version of the 2.25 petrol/diesel engine, looks very similar to it.

So that engine just about has to be a 2.0, probably the original - nobody would retrofit a smaller engine!

John