LANDY'S LAST RESTORATION BY ME

Does any one know were in Australia I can buy black painted 5" round side mirrors for Landy. I want metal ones NOT PLASTIC as every one is selling as genuine S1 guard mirrors. The plastic ones will not pivot on the ball & if you can get then so they adjust they keep falling down& when I tighten them they go out of adjustment. The other problem I have found with the plastic ones if some one walks into them at a car show the back brakes out of them. I am sick of buying the plastic ones , think I have bought 6 so far. I found some in the US but I would need to sell Landy to pay for the freight.
Any help would be appreciated .
Wayne

As I said I ordered some mirror heads from the US . I picked them up from the post office this morning .
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These have a metal body & adjusting screws on the ball so should work better than the plastic ones that people are selling as genuine LR ones. :thumbsup:
Just need to work out the best way to attach them to the arms.[bighmmm]

Last week wife & I did a trip to Gunnedah for this years North West Rally on the NSW Long Week End. We visited the Gunnedah Rural Meseuem & saw this little beauty I set the trip meter in our 1984 BMW 323i e30 before leaving home & the reading for the round trip plus the rally run on the Sunday was just over 1800km . We also collected the longest distance travelled trophy for our effort as we were the only car from the Qld Rover Club to do the trip to the rally this year.
Attachment 141273Attachment 141274Attachment 141275Attachment 141276 This was a very straight & original 88" S1 & seamed to be complete except for one of the pork pie lights was missing. The seats were laying in the back tray. When I was walking around the museum I came across a table with parts & tools for sale / make an offer & in the middle was a pork pie light . I was going to make an offer on the light but thought it needed to stay with the vehicle it belonged to , so I told one of the volunteers at the museum it needed putting back on the LR.

A couple of more photo's from the museumAttachment 141277 Attachment 141278Attachment 141279These last two photo's were taken from in the main shed it was raining quite heavy in fact the first rain they had had for a while.

Afew of the cars that attended the rally. out side the Royal Hotel Tambar Springs were we had morning tea.
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A few more cars
Attachment 141287Attachment 141288Attachment 141289 I had some more photo's but was using my new phone that I had just bought the day before I left & I accidently deleted them. Grrrrrrr
After morning tea it was off to the Spring Ridge Hotel for lunch . The Sunday drive was 200k's

Also a couple of photo's from out trip home Attachment 141290 It was -2 in Glen Innis on the Tuesday morning these photo's were taken around 9am after a couple hours if sun on the BMW Attachment 141291Attachment 141292Attachment 141293
Hope to get a couple of small jobs done on Landy tomorrow.

A couple of small jobs done today.
1st was to fit the anchor plate to the brake linkage ( supplied by 123rover50 Thanks Keith) for the brake light switch spring. Mine was missing & trying to get the switch to work proply has always been a chore . Attachment 141311
The 2nd job was to fit the new mirror heads to the arms . So off to Supercheap to get some electrical cable saddles to use as clamps on the arms. Attachment 141312Attachment 141313
Attachment 141314Attachment 141315Attachment 141316 I have fitted the arms down so the trafficators will clear the mirror heads. :thumbsup:
I don't know why it has turned the photo's they were the correct way up on my computer :(

The 3rd job was to fit an overflow pipe on the radiator ( forgot to take a photo :oops2:) I have used clear plastic tube at the moment because that's all I had , will replace it with black when I can find some suitable.

Dont worry about that job - when you going to restore my 88 station wagon for me [biggrin]

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Garry

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Originally Posted by garrycol

Dont worry about that job - when you going to restore my 88 station wagon for me [biggrin]

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Garry

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Bit far for me to travel each day to do the job.

I can deliver [bigsmile1] and pick up when it is done [thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by garrycol

I can deliver [bigsmile1] and pick up when it is done [thumbsupbig]

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My wife would be happy about that. She is always asking me when I am going to finish . I keep telling her if she stops giving me things to do I will get it finished.