Great find on both.
I am perhaps a smidge envious.
Enjoy the process.
For the sake of this thread, the green one I'll name SLR named after the original owner here in Alice Springs, and the silver one I'll name CLR also named after the original owner here in Alice Springs.
Both vehicles have belonged to early Centralian Pioneers, both SLR and CLR played there fair share of adventures in NT and are both worthy of restoration. I have a photo of SLR driving up Ayers Rock, culturally appropriate....not nowadays, but none the less a great story, and a photo I will share.
CLR was used as a farm implement( previous photos on here)and was used as the local home milko delivery vehicle.
some might say build a good one out of the two...but I recon there both worthy given the stories that the old guy's sons have shared about the cars.
Great find on both.
I am perhaps a smidge envious.
Enjoy the process.
Pulled box out for rebuild and started to clean chassis, it appears it is a yellow colour underneath all the crud, with this marking...any clues as to what it means, is it factory?
No idea what the writing is, but the yellow is the colour that Department of Supply painted Landrovers used by several Commonwealth organisations including the Bureau of Mineral Resources and DCA. (Not sure whether D of S painted them or bought them from Rover Australia that way)
John
JDNSW
1986 110 County 3.9 diesel
1970 2a 109 2.25 petrol
Mine had similar painted on numbers but mine is a 1960 s2 one 76 on outrigger and 76 again on crossmember I put down to possible employee number who built chassis?
1960 series 2 143001010
1976 series 3 91331709c
98 discovery 300tdi manual
06 discovery v6
2010 cub supamatic drover
Who is feeling sensitive?
There's a pill for that...
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Neil
(Really shouldn't be a...) Grumpy old fart!
MY2013 2.2l TDCi Dual Cab Ute
Nulla tenaci invia est via
My '56 has a yellow (Chromate) primer under the green. Might just be just the undercoat you've found.
You can see traces of the yellow in the pictures below.
DSCN2690 by Colin Radley, on Flickr
DSCF3943 by Colin Radley, on Flickr
Colin
'56 Series 1 with homemade welder
'65 Series IIa Dormobile
'70 SIIa GS
'76 SIII 88" (Isuzu C240)
'81 SIII FFR
'95 Defender Tanami
'58 Series II (sold)
Motorcycles :-
Vincent Rapide, Panther M100, Norton BIG4, Electra & Navigator, Matchless G80C
Yellow ndercoat, thanks.
i am now restoring tail shafts, I have made 2 good ones out of several so I have no play in splines, one is earlier series one and have marks to line up with good.
the other is from series 2, with larger Uni joints
question I have is the later series 2 shaft has arrow on yoke but no aligning arrow on shaft, the shaft does have a small hole on the spline weld, is this hole the aligning make for the yoke?
Wow what a find! !. Recently was driving aimlessly atound Araluen and Larapinta checking out the burbs, and csme across a few gems stashed in carports snd driveways... a couple of possibly genuine Sandmans for starters!!!. There was also a monaro coupe body shell not far from the train station in a workyard...😍
Jc
The Isuzu 110. Solid and as dependable as a rock, coming soon with auto box😊
The Range Rover L322 4.4.TTDV8 ....probably won't bother with the remap..😈
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