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I hope you will agree, this is my (work in progress) Landrover 88 made in 1972

The DLVA class it as a "Historic" vehicle being made before "73 so it pays exactly £0.00 a year for road tax

Winner...

Ok weellll, here we are.

I bought it with a 2.25 petrol engine in it, and have since changed the engine.









To a 2.5 (200 series) TDi engine from a landrover discovery, still using the original gearbox which is a 4 speed with overdrive ;) A working one too...



Which sits very nicley into the car


I got a replacement windscreen and grill via ebay from a chap who turned out to live all of 15 minutes away for a whole 99p for both...


Interior



Some welding (old engine still in)


And today some sealed beam units turned up for me, another ebay find



Now i just need whoever it is thats bought my civic through ebay to come collect and pay for it so i can carry on haha

Before the retro show in july i need

Oil cooler, Radiator pipes, Alternator belt (in a random size), Induction and boost pipework, Fuel return and most likley a few other things ive forgotten allready sorting

Oh and most important i suppose... M.O.T haha

Cant wait to be honest!

Very nice Ten,

I had a Series 3 88" myself stripped back to Truck cab only and fitted with a Perkins 4203 and lifted (3" box) running 32" Mud Snow BFGooodriches, she ate gearboxs and overdrives but would pull a house down with the torque you set off in any gear and just release the clutch it would pull away no matter what, never had over 55mph out of her but they were never built for speed in the first place

How did the engine change effect the tax free status?
is it still the same system of points to qualify for "historic value"?

by the time i had finished messing mine was no longer officially entitled to "Historic Value" road tax deduction, but then all you need is to find a friendly MOT tester and hey presto it was all good again ,

but this was nearly 10 years ago so things may have changed

The list for mine was as follows:
4203 Perkins lump (3.5 litres, max 2400 RPM )
Front seats from a Nissan Sunny GTiR
MG Turbo Montego Steering wheel
3" lift
4500 KG Warne Winch
Fairy Overdrive
16.5" Composite Rims fitted with 32" Mud/Snows
Coil Spring conversion
Range Rover Rear Axle
Defender Front Axle
De-Silled and Chequer Plated all round
5 Point Harness to both front seats
Additional "oh Jesus Handles" to passenger side of cab
Full Sound deadening and Acoustic Cab lining
Centre Cubby fitted out with Stereo, CB and full hands free phone kit.

Now I cant see why the DVLA said she wasnt of historic value after all that, she was a work of art not just a Landy
Nice to know there is another mud plugger on here, keep up the good work bud.

your gonna get Dai started now, i remember asking a simple question about green-laning years ago and boy you shouldve seen the reply
twas like war & peace

Its one of those things that gets into the blood

nick you already know i love this

but i feel the need to say it again

I F**KING LOVE THIS

and i hope you want start trying to blame me again fro you having to get it finished

now get cracking...chop chop

Awesome project, I love Land Rovers

The historic status is still done on the points system

but still everything original apart from the engine

e.g. leaf springs, original axles etc etc

tempted to look into parabolic leafs though...

and adam, i hadnt blamed you, not on here anyway

Polskipug wrote:"oh Jesus Handles"

Polskipug wrote:Its one of those things that gets into the blood

What, like malaria you mean?

I've been forbidden from getting a Landy Anyway, I'm told anything I'm likely to pick up round here will be seriously knackered. I did have a mate with one, it had a 5 cylinder Mercedes engine in it (don't ask me which but it had 5 glowplugs on it and "Mercedes" on the rocker cover). If you think the outside looked tatty the inside was worse - like a rabid dog had been living in it, interior torn to shreds. Still, it went ok. He did have plans for a V8 with lpg but he decided instead to get very drunk one night and crash it into a tree. Idiot.

The worlds first Built-in Systems Interface...

tenwierdufos wrote:

I kinda get the whole Landy thing but only off-the-road.

BullShIt

There's very little to go wrong on them, even on later versions. Want fresh air? Open the flap and it's in your face. Rugged as hell, go anywhere. Vague steering, bone shaker suspension, deafeningly noisy, glacial performance, abysmal fuel consumption. Still want one though.

Anyone got 5 grand to spare?

trem1 wrote:your gonna get Dai started now, i remember asking a simple question about green-laning years ago and boy you shouldve seen the reply
twas like war & peace

Cheeky Tw@

Anyway before my Suzuki days I dabbled with a Lawn Roller, 'twas a series 2A with a Rover V8 fitted. Never cooled properly and had a whole host of problems, only lasted a few weeks before I realised that the restoration was way beyond my limited budget and ability so I let it go back to the previous owner.... long story, blew it up on the way and we ended up punting it on ebay and splitting the profits (yes, profits! ).

Then I got the suzuki and happily laned it for a few years, but that's not been out for over a year , should really sell it (to buy a coupe ) but I'm finding it difficult to part with it. Anyone wanna buy a zook??

More progress, even if some of it is just a sticker, changed the lights also, the bracket for them are a tad ROTTEN though, so might struggle to angle them properly for mot lol

Oh, and rewired all the front lights, the horn (no longer in the civic im afraid) and the washer jets, had to cut them all to remove the radiator dur to them running through a silly place and having NO plugs, all soldierd in lol. I need some kind of one way valve for the washers though as the tube is so long each time you use them the first 10 seconds of holding your thumb on the button is spent pumping the water to the end of the pipe haha.

tenwierdufos wrote:I need some kind of one way valve for the washers though as the tube is so long each time you use them the first 10 seconds of holding your thumb on the button is spent pumping the water to the end of the pipe haha.

Something like this perhaps?

Oooh, primitive wiring, just my level I'd imagine badly corroded bullet connectors and such, hours of fun

Yes somthing exactly like that

and on the wiring, as primitive as it gets

bimetallic flasher unit, no chips involved, and the only relay in the vehicle is for the glow plugs, and thats only because the relay and the engine are from a car made in 1993

not even the headlights etc use relays, just very beefy staks

actually, just stalk, the windscreen wipers are on a switch, one speed of course, on.