Thread: Lightweights

Streaky, great looking specimen!!
If you start shipping them to Oz let me know!

Guess i should chime in, Elsa cost me $3500 in just driveable condition plus shipping her up here. Lightweights are reasonably rare in Australia. I would guesstimate less than 50 all up. Ive wanted one for as long as i can remember and i jumped at the chance to own one. Elsa is slowly making her way back onto the roads after a lot of work. Good examples sell for phone book prices.

The Saudi National Guard had thousands of them. When they sold them off there were some real bargains to be had.
I know of a number of guys who bought mint condition lightweights for around USD$1000 with less than 500km on the clock. Most or probably all were 24volt FFR...all had been sitting in the sun for far too long and needed every bit of rubber replaced.

JP...John Pitman.Ozzie. Does he come on here? He had a beauty.
FB. Fat B*****d. Scotish. Had the lowest mileage one with 435km on the clock when he bought it.
Paul Rice.Kiwi. Had another very low mileage one....that floated away down the Al Hair river! Honest! Kevo the Irish storeman drove it back from Saudi to Ireland in just 14 days...the journey was 100% trouble free...untill the alternator light came on just 2km from his house in Ireland!
JW. John Wright. Brit. Took his back to the Uk and now runs a 3.5Efi with mega squirt and a three speed auto box.
Stevo. Brit. Imaculate vehicle with less than 1000km on teh clock when purchased Took his back to the Uk and trialled it for a number of years before slling it.
Mine. Slightly higher mileage but well kitted out.

All were left hand drive vehicles but very easy to convert.

200 of the extra special gun ship variants were made for OPMSANG. They have a double/split windsheild , no doors and carried a massive shooter of some sort that sat between the two wind screens. They come up at auctions here and there and are very sought after these days. If I'd have known what they were worth at the time I would have picked a few up...they were the cheapest on the forecourt in Saudi because no one wanted a desert weekend car with no doors and a split windsheild.

I've seen a few in the UAE but I think they are all Saudi imports. If any of you guys have mates working in Riyadh, KSA, then tell them to get down the car sales yard at Al Hair. They still have some for sale at bargain prices. All are very dusty but mechaniclly sound. They would all need new tyres and anything made of rubber would be perished.

S.

my brother had a Lightweight which he blow the engine up on the day he bought it . So he replaced it with a 11A V8 engine and rangie diffs mmmm that made it go. Then he left it at a mates house who is a sign writer and got it back looking like this








Anyone got a shoe horn

poor paint job??

another ex raf one

Originally Posted by juddy

poor paint job??

poor paint job more like sh*t paint job

was trying to be diplomatic!!!