Thread: Oh Dear, I bought another one.

Well after a fair bit of a hiatus I actually started to do a bit of work on Lumpy again, been too busy keeping work vehicles on the road and other unpleasantness, but I started to get the urge again after not being too sure what I was going to do.
Now to get rid of the other 2.25 diesel I have and get a proper spread bore 2 litre motor for her.

Good to see you have started work again

We are about to start our next project "bessie" as soon as we can get all our friends Landy's fixed and painted so we can get her in the shed


Mrs hh

I was starting to miss my landie, working on a 22 year old Hilux just isn't quite the same.
I have this strange idea of painting it like the Antichrist from The Gods Must be Crazy.

Originally Posted by Surly One

I was starting to miss my landie, working on a 22 year old Hilux just isn't quite the same.
I have this strange idea of painting it like the Antichrist from The Gods Must be Crazy.

I have allays wanted to paint a car in that hammer finish paint (sic)
all you need is a paint brush, no fancy spray equipment. so simple isn't it? Imagine a RED Ferrari in hammer tone paint, Richard Hammond would just love it!
The trouble with it is that it faded very quickly, I did my trailer with it in subtle 2 tone, black and grey. Looked fantastic for about 6 months, then faded. The best part was that I again started taking rubbish to the tip in it.Who cares about scratching faded paint?
The colour card now has a very nice land-rover green and .........
Peter

Well it looks like I have found myself a spread bore 2 litre and a few other bits I want in exchange for the '54 I have minus a few parts.

Originally Posted by mildred

I have allays wanted to paint a car in that hammer finish paint (sic)
all you need is a paint brush, no fancy spray equipment. so simple isn't it? Imagine a RED Ferrari in hammer tone paint, Richard Hammond would just love it!
The trouble with it is that it faded very quickly, I did my trailer with it in subtle 2 tone, black and grey. Looked fantastic for about 6 months, then faded. The best part was that I again started taking rubbish to the tip in it.Who cares about scratching faded paint?
The colour card now has a very nice land-rover green and .........
Peter

Probably one of the worst things you could do a to a series Landie. Seen it done on one vehicle and looked crap, that and the paint is a real b*****d to get off again.

Sometimes the Landrover gods smile upon me, I left home with a siamese bore and come back withtwo spread bores.
Pics and numbers will follow after a bit of sorting out tomorrow.

Looks like I have got engines no. 57104669 and 57102768, moved a heap of other crap around and got them safely stowed in the shed, still short a starter motor though.