Show us your S1.

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Originally Posted by Tom1988

Hi Everyone, I recently purchased a 1949 Series 1 and am based in Sydney. Does anyone know of a good mechanic to assist with a couple of things that need doing? based on the Northern Beaches so someone local would be great!

Cheers,

Tom

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I dont know of any mechanics up your way, but I do know of a great little private mechanic down Tangambalanga way [thumbsupbig]

Can't promise I'll return,, ahh, oops, I mean,, I can't promise that person will return it though [bigwhistle]




What a great looking little buy, so jealous,, I will have to pull my finger out if I'm to have one in my stable I think. [bighmmm]

Cheers Chops

How about this one?
Not mine.


1951 Land Rover Series 1 80-inch Utility
SOLD: $61,500
Sold: Land Rover Series 1 80-inch Utility Auctions - Lot 153
- Shannons
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I just bought a 1953 series one 80in, one of the last 3 dozen made afaik.
36662206.
It runs fairly roughly , not for long, but has original engine and gearbox (hard to get into reverse)with a normal filter on top of carb, not a big oil bath vertical filter.

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Originally Posted by frantic

I just bought a 1953 series one 80in, one of the last 3 dozen made afaik.
36662206.
It runs fairly roughly , not for long, but has original engine and gearbox (hard to get into reverse)with a normal filter on top of carb, not a big oil bath vertical filter.

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This thread is about showing us your S1 not talking about it [bigrolf]

So where are the pics - hop too it - chop chop [thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

This thread is about showing us your S1 not talking about it [bigrolf]


So where are the pics - hop too it - chop chop [thumbsupbig]

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I was going to say same thing[bigsmile1]

Hope it’s here

It looks to be reasonably complete, and remarkably straight for an unrestored 80"!

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

It looks to be reasonably complete, and remarkably straight for an unrestored 80"!

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It’s not to bad so far, seats are as expected stuffed but frames are there, probably just get exmoor.
two questions for those with a lot more knowledge than me
1:do 86in door tops fit an 80
2:also how do I find it’s history, bloke I bought it off near Dubbo was given it for payment for a job 30+ years ago.

just bought a pretty rough S1 project, not sure exactly how I feel about it yet because I still have an incomplete IIA project.... but the price was right.

Haven't seen it in the flesh yet and I don't know much about S1s at all, nor did the seller. Anyone ID what year this is?

Got the dreaded holden 149 conversion which I'll be getting rid of. Thinking about a S3 driveline maybe? Is this heresy?

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Plan for right now is go pick it up then it will have to go into storage for a little bit as I don't have any room for it right now.

Cheers,

Adam

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Originally Posted by frantic

It’s not to bad so far, seats are as expected stuffed but frames are there, probably just get exmoor.
two questions for those with a lot more knowledge than me
1:do 86in door tops fit an 80
2:also how do I find it’s history, bloke I bought it off near Dubbo was given it for payment for a job 30+ years ago.

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I must have missed these questions - sorry!

1. No. Even 80" door tops varied.

2. With great difficulty! Sounds likely your seller got it from the family of the original owner, seeing it was rural, who was probably deceased, but after thirty years even this link is likely to be broken. Someone on here has some of the NSW records, and the British Motor Heritage centre in the UK has most dispatch records from this period - but all this is likely to do is to confirm whether it was sent to Australia.