Thread: Bitten By The Bug

I know what you mean, I bought my first Landy, a 1970 IIA nearly 5 years ago the 3 years after that I bought my 1976 Series 3 and Last year I bought my 1976 Range Rover. With finding stuff at the right time, I was about to give up on findind a 202 to replace the 2.25 when she lets go and a week later I found one and the bloke said I could have it for free and yeatersay I went to a book sale and I found a How to Tune your Holley book which is handy for the V8 100" and I also found a Holden workshop manual for the 202. If its at a fair price it'd be worth it having a good chassis body and an original 2.6 6cyl. And it's a county or has county stickers.

The bloke I'm get this this from seems to know his his stuff, he was telling me how he was going to put a hemi 265 in this useing an adapter plate and fitting it to a landcrusier box, but Im not getting them in the deal, it's already had the orignal diffs replaced with sulsbury diffs and the only parts missing are the front seats as he had valiant bucket's in there and he used them on another project, aswell as the chassis bolts but he did say there floating around in his shed somewhere, Don't think it's the country just the sticker's.
I must admit I do like colecting.

Cheers

The 265 Hemi wasn't a very common conversion but a good few people have done it and said it's fantastic but many prefer the 245 or 225. The salisburys will help strength wise, If they've been changed to a higher ratio that would make it a much nicer road vehicle. Looks like it's a late IIA wagon not Series II judging by the headlights being on the wings but they could have been retro fitted. Sounds like its going to be a good project keep us posted.

It's a 1971 if that helps I.D. it, this one is going straight in my shed in the next couple of weeks, have to organise a trailer to pick it up first, In the meantime I still have the series 1 to sort out which needs more work than I anticipated, mainly wiring and brakes as I'm half way into the engine change over.

Cheers Chris

That's definetly a IIA then being a 1971, one of the very last IIA's. They have that bit more reliability cause they were in production for longer than the SII and they had ironed out most of the faults. Thats what I've heard and read but I don't know I've never driven or owned a SII, I've only driven my IIA.

I'm having thoughts about passing on the series 1 ute cab and concentrating on this one, seems this is in much better condition, the ute would be a much longer project but nice when finished.

Cheers Chris

A fully restored Series I is worth quite a bit and they are very sought after but it's your decision, the IIA is a good looking wagon if you look past the dust and missing panels, and certainly much better road vehicle compared to the Series I.

Late Series 2A not a Series 2!
Nice find too!

Cheers, Mick.