Thread: Scrapping S1 & yes, I am peeved-off

If you don't want the cars / parts to leave Australia, buy them your self...otherwise whoever owns them now has a right to sell them as and how they see fit...free market.

Ray

My sentiments exactly Rayngie, if you need/want, then shell out the loot, or lose it to someone who has the loot, regardless of whether they are in for restoration/profit off shore, otherwise your just another time waster of the person trying to sell it

Originally Posted by Lost Landy

Well its true we can not save every series 1 Land Rover built!
But I have heard of certian people from the UK coming over here & butchering up early landys including very early 80" haveing the parts shoved into a container & shipped back to the UK.
Hell the UK has some of the best repro parts avalable, leave our Landys be!
Yes the UK might be starved of good s/h parts but that doesnt condone useing the gas axe to cut out X members & out riggers form rust free 48/49 chassis, or to distroy complete & runing vehicles!
These people are no better then the scrap metal recyclers that do the same.

These people know who they are!

i doubt that would be the go when you can buy near authentic chassis and body parts that are being remanufactured in the u.k. now how would ya save ?

Originally Posted by Sleepy

But if they are being "parted out" it probably not as bad as they will help other Land Rovers live on.
I bought a Series 2a from a bloke on ebay. I had actually been outbid by a scrappy but the seller refused to let it go to him. He rang me as second bidder and we sealed the deal. He told me many scrappies keep their eye out for Land Rovers as the AL (at the time) was quite a high value. Meaning a rusty old S2 was worth AU$500 to $600 melted down.
I think the price of Al has dropped quite a bit since.

being a selfish bastard i would prefer to see historical Land rovers in Australia in the future, not sent back to that enviroment of salt and rain where they rot faster than the gusset of julia gillards undies

Originally Posted by longing4alandy

Its the same with the poms in other areas too, historically significant traction engines, portable engines, stationary engines, steam trains-all have been exported without permission to the detriment of Australia's history. Same thing happens with South Africa, America and parts of Europe. The poms have money and see foreign lands as places to reap. What's new?

Sometimes the larger steam machines have been broken up and packed in with general scrap metal so they get past customs checks.

get a grip jeez you sound like a bogan old racist....if you have any documented evidence then you could stop it by reporting it if it's just hear-say then well it's just that.

I guess the Land Rover or even the automobile restoration crowd is a little more self-centered than I expected. In railway preservation, items are restored so they may be experienced and enjoyed by others, usually in a manner that doesn't detract from the item's future. Seems that some Land Rover restorers are more interested in making money than sharing with others, just like scrappies wielding oxy torches.
I'm glad that not all vehicle restorers/preservationists are chasing dollars be it in scrap parts heading overseas or speculation of value.

Lardy,
I am sorry to tar all poms with one brush. Fact is I am aware of this sort of thing happening in the past. How would i know about current occurences when it is shrouded in secrecy, being an illegal act?
If you want an example, the locomotive on the following web page was repatriated from Aus illegally and went through a number of hands before ending up at the railway which restored it.
The BWLR - Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway
This locomotive has no cultural significance to the UK, being a French built locomotive serving its entire working life in Queensland. In the UK it may have been built last week, the significance is the same.
If you read Old Glory, a UK magazine on machinery preservation, you might notice just how many of the restored machines were repatriated from foreign shores.

I think you might find they are coming to purchase original rather than kit their car with repo parts. Big difference between the two. Maybe they realise the repo cars look tinny and never leave the road, only to end up as trailer queens at car shows. Seems the negatives are only coming from folks who don't have much to do with early restos. I say lets object to these robbers and their australian agents (and you know who you are) and try and keep what we have as future history for the young ones coming on