Thread: 1958 Series II resurrection

Originally Posted by gromit

I usually use a strip of baked bean can, some exhaust putty and a couple of hose clamps, unfortunately there is no metal to attach to on the end of the silencer.

Colin

The ol' baked bean tin and hose clamps never fails.

Originally Posted by gromit

The wife has been asking why I've had the wheels off the tandem trailer recently, why are you working on it after it's sat on the driveway for so long ?

Collected an early Series II today so now she knows why I was working on the trailer......

Has been standing in the open since 1997.
Holden motor in a professionally modified chassis which is galvanised.
A few extra holes and odd bolts where it's been modified in the past, yet to investigate all the 'junk' inside but I do need to resolve the smell of stale petrol.
Originally would have been fitted with a 2 litre motor but unfortunately that's long gone.

Undecided at the moment whether to keep it or not, SWMBO thinks I've got too many already.

Too good to part out so I'll get it running and make a decision from there.


Colin

Hey Colin,

This does look like quite an interesting vehicle. I hope you do get the time to do more with it. Thanks for the posts.

Cheers,

John

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Hey Colin,

This does look like quite an interesting vehicle. I hope you do get the time to do more with it. Thanks for the posts.

Cheers,

John

John,

SWMBO thinks 7 Land Rovers is about 6 too many so I'll probably have to move it on.

This is the second '58 Series II SWB I've owned, the first did have the original 2 litre motor with it but needed a lot of work. This one is like my Series I, lots of period modifications which make it unique/unusual.



Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

John,

SWMBO thinks 7 Land Rovers is about 6 too many so I'll probably have to move it on.

This is the second '58 Series II SWB I've owned, the first did have the original 2 litre motor with it but needed a lot of work. This one is like my Series I, lots of period modifications which make it unique/unusual.

Colin

Yes, the suite of intriguing modifications do make this a rather interesting vehicle. Let's hope that, if you do move it on, it goes to a worthy home.

John

P.S. Consider painting all your Land Rovers with zebra stripes and parking them close together. It will then become difficult for anybody to count them.

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

P.S. Consider painting all your Land Rovers with zebra stripes and parking them close together. It will then become difficult for anybody to count them.

I read on another forum years ago some rules to confuse SWMBO when keeping multiple vehicles. Here are a few that I remember :-

Don't give them names, she'll notice when a new name is mentioned.
Regularly move them around so that she doesn't notice when a new one arrives.
Sell one at some point then whenever she mentions the number of vehicles you have, refer back to the one that you sold some time ago.

Also, make sure someone knows that if anything happens to you they must not let her sell them for what you told her you paid for them !


Colin

Well the pressure is on to get rid of the Series II.
I purchased it because of the galvanised chassis but have to admit I'm not a fan of Holden conversions.

One of my boys has put it on Facebook Markets (I'm not a Facebook user). I'd forgotten how much fun it is dealing with potential purchasers......



Colin

Yes , for first two weeks you get the scammers , they seam to go away after that.

that's a fair price for what she is, someone will get a nice project there.