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Now there's a thought! I'm still really only looking for a motor to bang about the woods in, so am prepared to do some work myself. I'll have to contact them to see what, if anything, of that sort is available.

Thanks Todd, SLRK is obiviously on the watch list (member since some years, do recall your car from your avatar...) as is the Norwegian and Danish sister sites. However it's more and more becoming clear that LHD comes with a hefty premium. Perhaps I'll just get a pair of wellingtons, a tweed cap, a RHD 88" and call it a day:-) All kidding aside, I'm seriously entertaining the idea of sourcing on eBay or a UK dealer and taking the import myself. I just had a look at the import procedure today and it (surprisingly) only comes to about SKR 2100, provided it's intra-EU and a production model that doesn't need additional testing etc. Now to clear with the Mrs and find a suitable object :-)

Thanks for the input - keeping tabs on the classifieds in the Landy mags as well as networking a bit with some select dealers is probably what I ought to do, its just that once the idea forms... Let's say that patience was never one of my strong sides... L Jackson I did have a look at, but judging from the pictures of the EXTREMELY tasty Dutch LWs that they have 30 of - on pallets, in dry storage - I was to intimidated to even get a quote... And now that I think about it the RHD option is getting increasingly appealing:-) Do you know if there's any way of getting information on previous owner etc from the DVLA? I had a quick looksee at their site but couldn't make heads or tails of the info. Reason for asking is that there's a SIII 88" on the market here, still with UK plates on it and it'd be nice to know that it has been exported in a proper fasion. Again, thanks for the input!

Hi all, Some three years back when I realised that the huge German-made buggy I bought for kid #3 didn't fit in the trunk of my "reasonable japanese family car" I started shopping around for a better kids n' luggage-kind of car. The obvious choice would have been a Volvo v70 (I'm in Sweden after all) or on of those horrid plastic minivan contraptions - but as luck would have it I managed to score a perfectly clean -99 110 that had been living on Gotland (island in the Baltics, uses no salt on the roads in the winter, hence no rust. Anywhere...) it's entire life. A bit of test driving, some scorn from the Mrs and I'm a Landy owner! Now this rattling, freezing squeeky feat of engineering has cast it spell on me and so I have to have another. Or it could be that spending a lot of weekends driving through ruts, mudpits and assorted hard stuff made me realise that wrecking the daily driver would be a Bad Thing... So I recently started looking for a second car. Sorry, second Landy... And being a glutton for punishment, a Series motor would just fit the bill. Only thing is that for some reason everyone up here seems to think that their non-registered, non-starting, see-the-tarmac-through-the-floor, piece o' rust is worth one Billion Trillion dollars! Item: this poor thing http://www.blocket.se/stockholm/Land_Rover_Serie_1_23893577.htm?ca=11&w=3 has had a Volvo-motor dropped in, hasn't passed the SE version of a MOT since -84, been off the register for road use since -90 and has an asking price of £1067... Go figure... So, my question to you, the knowledgeable forumite, is where to turn for a decent (I'm thinking well worn, in need of some TLC but not a non-starting rustbucket that needs driving a trailer halfway through Europe to collect) LHD Series II/IIA or III, for my own personal use when out and about in the woods, i.e. doesn't cost a pint of blood and my firstborn? So far I've been looking at eBay, the usual ex-MoD dealers etc, but either it's a über-restored trailer queen, outrageously overpriced (we're talking about a 30-35 years plus old vehicle here!) or it's standing in a field in Surrey without roof and tranny... This really turned into a rant, didn't it? Sorry... All I really meant to ask was "where's the best place to source a decent, working, affordable Series motor"?

"Brother Corrode" - it's got a nice, cultish, ring to it... And thanks for the piccies - the extension has exactly the look & feel I was after. Now to a followup Q - what would be the main things/issues to look out for in a -97 90 pickup with approx. 22500 km on the meter. A tower to add... Apart from the timing belt issue that is... I'd be guessing rot in the bulkhead and rear x-member. What else?

Oooo please do tell more - not that I'm NBA-length, but the downside with a true cab is that it does seem a tad tight...

Wohooo! Just the replies I was hoping for. Now to get the breaker sorted (along with the Powers that Be...) with fingers crossed that he hasn't sold it as parts... Thanks guys! /A

I've been happily driving/upgrading/messing about with the 110 for near on a year now and boy! am I happy that I listned to the inner boy telling me not to go the "french plastic monster filled with useless electronic carp"-path when the time came to select a ride suitable for the "new and improved three-kid family". Although I have to admit wondering at times if the builders in Solihull got part of their compensation package in the form of burned and distilled beverages... Anyhoo - although the white wonder is extremely competent (bone stock and all...) in the woods, the sand pit and in the watery hole, there is always a nagging feeling in the back of the head that if this very section goes south, the kids'll have a long walk to school tomorrow. And for those of you who haven't been here - the winters in Sweden aren't all that fun to be having a walkabout in... So I started looking at getting a plaything. And immediately ran into "issues" - 1) the second-hand market is narrow, to say the least... 2) the trucks that get put on the market seems to be "suspiciously heavy, used as getaway cars in that jewel heist a few years back" if asking price is something to go by. And trying to get an import past the local version of the MoT is not something to be taken lightly. By chance I spotted a rolled Defender 90 on the web - from the pictures it looks (reasonably) straight in the chassies but the back is all shot (i.e. the roof is bent in half, back door bent, windows gone) and the front doors seems a bit out of alignment (as they do on my 110 - and that hasn't been crashed...). Since I won't be needing a roofed back to put stuff in and it'll just be me and a buddy offroading in it I figured why not convert it to a truck cab. So, finally to the point - how much of a hassle is it to do a SW to truck cab conversion? the "getting rid of stuff" part I think I can manage, but for getting the new stuff in place - does it require welding, Herculean tech skills, a huge stack of cash and so on? I've only just now tried to reach the breaker to see if it's still available and before getting my hopes up to far I'd like to get the opinion of people more technically adapt/Land Rover savvy than myself. The piccies are from the breaker. Thanks in advance! (And thanks for a great forum as well - I've learnt a bunch just lurking...) /A

Oh, and another thing: I've noticed that the connector from the battery et al (I sort of remember Lucar being mentioned in a text or other) is sort of "sloppy" i.e. it seems that the female bit is a tiiiny bit larger than the male (connector on the starter) - is it advisable to do a bit of creative bending on the metal bits inside the connector, or should the entire (if that's even possible) connector be cut and re-soldered with a new one? Cheapskate me - I'll getting a visit from the three christmas ghosts anyday now... /F

Quick question - how much of a hassle is it for a "mechanically challenged" but otherwise relatively handy person to exchange the solenoid? Me, I can manage by hammering the solenoid every now and againg (i.e. everytime I try to start the engine...) but the Mrs is driving me bonkers with her complaining! /Fredrik

First post - sort of scary... Anyways, here goes - how about this: let's list the ORIGINALS and get together a "group buy" future kind of thing! I'm sort of off-British-Islands-newbie-not-competing-semi-Chelsea-tractor-kind-of-person, but anyways: the only way of getting copycats out of the way is to get consumers to understand the value of what they are buying. 5+5+5+5 doesn't add up to 21... Case in point - a few years and n% less brittle bones ago I used to race bikes downhill for fun. Cheapskate as I tended to be I used to get the cheapest option available, apart from the bike. The *economy* just disapears as soon as your precious front wheel axle decides to shear in two... And this was on a bike... Anyways - based on my precious few months driving a Solihull Rocket - getting good spares at a decent price seems like a thing worth investing some time into. So - (and I've might missed this - if that is the case the Mod is welcome to Viritually spank me..., sorry!) how come you lot haven't banded up for a Sponsor/Discount drive? It seems to me that Regulars have a good relationship with the offended parties and, judging on the replies, the bad experiences with Offending parties seems quite frequent as well. Short version - consumer power!