Thread: 113-372

G'day All, One gloomy afternoon back in June I think?, I noticed that a chap called SvenB who was travelling the world in his LHD 90 was in town, so I rang him and asked if he would like to come around and have a coffee, he accepted the invitation, well he was staying about 800 meters from my home, I'm sure he was impressed with what he saw, he asked me to snap a few pix of himself standing in front of the Land Rovers, I gave him a Series Land Rover badge (Ozzie one) he thought that was fantastic and was going to fit to his Land Rover, I told him otherwise as it would be most likely stolen LOL, he accepted this and said he would hang it in his shed when he gets home to ?Norway anyway a couple of pix,


and his LHD 90

Sven was rather partial to the 'Gunbuggy' like a lot of others LOL, he is the 3rd international visitor I had here, I missed 'Gasman' from the S2 club UK, he was in Sydney working as a care flight doctor, but he had limited time and had to head home anyway, cheers Dennis

Keep the reports coming Dennis

Mrs hh

G'day All,
As I said in another post that i had to have the wiring loom to run through the chassis, well hopefully that should be underway as I have contacted the crew at VinWire for the loom to suit LR611.
We have had a few sunny days, yeah you guessed it mainly sunny when at work, but I did manage to get a couple of sunny days when I was off work, I had purchased 12 lts of etch prime ( 8lts was mine, 4lts for a mate) I soon had the spray gun full and the compressor running, it didn't take long to whack on a coat or two of etch prime,
before application,



this is the underside of the tub, it is painted Gloss Black like all the floor sections,

one saving grace is, if I run you over you will be able to see how I mucked up your hair LOL, well thats just about the past 8 months in a few days on the net, I still have many items painted etc so maybe I could do a short run on those items.
I know I'm off again next Friday heading off into the Nth West to sus out a bulkhead but thats another story cheers Dennis
Muddy rang me this evening and we talked over the core plugs issue that we both had

G'day All,
113-372 as we know is a veteran of the conflict in Sth Vietnam, and we have heard of kit being 'claimed' by the Australians i.e US mil/gear with the 'Red Rat' painted on it etc, well 113-372 has 2 unusual items, it had a coke type bottle opener on the LHS rear tub,

and painted under the bonnet are 2 x 5 pointed stars, I have asked the previous owner (not Mr Dunlop!!) and he stated that both items were on the Land Rover when he bought it 30 years ago, makes you wonder if the Yanks stole 113-372 to claim as theirs

anyway it all adds to the mystique, cheers Dennis

G'day All,
Here are few snaps of small items that i have prepared ready for refitting and or top coat painted DBG/gloss Black.
All items were grit blasted, threads run down with taps n dies with the exception of the speed nuts etc all etch primed, undersides of washers painted flat black so as not to react in contact with aluminium, then bagged n tagged





believe it or not I still have quite a few more to do, especially the great pile that goes to make up the seatbox assembly my hands are going to be sore anyway cheers Dennis

G'day All,
As most of us know Land Rovers do RUST yessir it's fact of life, and if the Land Rover is left sitting idle in a reasonably high rainfall area it will rust even quicker + sit over grass = rust at an alarming rate, add to that a hard top all closed up 24/7 x 8 years = this,


and well you might say it doesn't look that bad, from this picture it shows only rust in footwells and A pillars, but take it from me, it's beyond economical repair, scrap only after bits removed,,.
well after a bit of a look about all the local haunts I soon learned that I needed to go further afield, Justin P had one and I thought I had it sown up, but then he informed me of an unforseen problem with it, so that went by the wayside.
A road trip of over 1600k's and again I thought I had the item in the bag, but again it has remained out of reach (way too complicated for me to be saying anything), but this was 1st class dont you agree,

then we thought we had this in the bag until a price was mentioned,.

so I'm off again this week into the wilds on NSW on another chase, hopefully with a better result all round, I must say this though, I haven't given up on any of the above offers as yet, I'm sitting on them as they say anyway cheers Dennis
ps maybe some pix by Sunday evening

G,Day Dennis,

The landies looking really good, keep up the good work.

The weather here is just starting to improve so hopefully my workshop will move ahead a bit more soon.

Chin up re finding a bulkhead, I'm still Peed off the one i had was no good.

Specially after battling the floor plate bolts!.

Justin.

G'day Justin, some days are diamonds some days are stone LOL cheers mate and thanks for the compliment, but I'm only a amateur cheers Dennis
ps did you get snow recently?? I would love to get a pic of some snow on my of my 88"GS,.