Thread: Little Miss Adventure

It looks like a pretty neat car , if mechanically its fine i would leave the rest alone as it has character - unless you plan on a full respray.

Nice project! i would love to do a similar rebuild to a series keeping it original(mostly) but my wife would kill me if another LR turned up... i already have the county and another little project in the works which she doesnt know about


Is there any rust in it? Whats the plan for the rebuild, full strip down to the chassis freshen everything up or just replace the bad bits and a fresh paint job? Got any more piccies of it showing the whole vehicle? It looks pretty cool, i had a IIa sitting in my yard for a long time which i always wanted to fix but the it was to far gone cancer wise...

Looking forward to see the progress!

these are the only other pics I have of it at the moment....







At the moment the idea for me is just replace the bad bits and spray it...the chassis has no rust what so ever the only things is the fire wall has a crack on the A pillar so once wings and doors are off need to assess whether this is repairable or we have to change the firewall.

Don't really want another firewall change so hopefully is fixable.......

The car was given to me....after a guy wanted it moved from his paddock. he used it to feed the cows and stuff I think, however he took it out one day and snapped the half shaft in the front carried on driving it and snapped the one in the rear so left it where it broke..

It sat there for a month until I picked it up....went out to get it and the little rover engine started first time and ran as smooth as

loan rangie...this little car has more than character unfortunately so things do need to be changed...its a little bit too rough in the body work to leave

The car used to do the post runs in Queensland before this guys dad bought it (he was the second owner and passed it to this guy..who then gave it to me as he thought an enthusiast would get more out of it.

I got some lights coming..I have wings to replace the bad ones..I have door to replace the ones on it as there not great..couple of diffs and some half shafts. Just need to get a hold of some sheet metal so I can replace the floor through some paint on and some reasonable tyres and hopefully she will be apples enough to roadworthy.

Then we can potter her around thirlmere picking up the hay and stuff

Hey DB,

Nice landy, i would be happy with that! i like the safari roof and visor. are you going to respray it the same colour? is the grey an original colour?

You must be happy with the engine, any idea of how many kms it has clocked up?

45046

so I guess 45 thousand and I assume its miles as the speedo is in MPH

also its not grey but purple! yes that's right a sort of lilac/purple colour

thinking of just doing it sand or limestone, white roof and wheels not sure whether to do the tray the same colour as the body or black...

when I get home early enough and there is some decent light I guess I should take photo's of all of it even the bad bits to document it.
At least then it will look like I have done something

limestone does look good, i think the spelling enforcer has one (or did)..

I really wanted to keep it original as possible, but money is not going to permit that so I have decided to keep it as original as I can but hopefully with a couple of subtle modern touches

I had never done more than change the oil in a car when we bought our Lotus Elan. The guy who sold it to us of course said it was great, and the inspection we had done said it was ok too.

However when we got it home we found it had rust in the chassis which required a complete re-build. I learnt a lot in that whole experience. It was tough at times, but rewarding. After you are done you'll know your car more than you thought possible.

If something is really obscure, a major safety item, or requiring of custom tools don't be afraid to pay someone to do it for you. As long as you do the most of it you'll get the benefit.

Good luck