Blood, sweat & beers ! Landy no3 restore

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Landy restore No 3 !
Its been in hiding since 2023 and finally made it home today. Lady Macbeth as shes know by her previous owner is a very early 90. An offer too good to refuse from the previous owner Val saw me purchasing my third landy and having to hide it away from mrs Hughes. Now that the s3 and 300tdi have found new homes its time to break the bad new to her 😂 well my youngest son let the cat out of the bag a few weeks ago so its safe to say Im out of the woods. Right that enough trivia lets get to the nitty gritty, every day while working at RAF valley GEF I saw this horrendous def zooming past the workshop at approximately 7.45 every morning, Valerie (appologies for using your full title) working at R&D used it as her daily driver, having spent many a happy year or should I say century green lane’in with her husband and daughter decided to sell “lady macbeth” and since I had shown an interest in this unicorn I was offered first refusal. Well Val didn’t half sell it to me a 7 owner def 90 reg Oct 1984 a galv chassis and a fully recon engine from turners just a few thousand mile ago how could I refuse.
 
Well if it wasn’t for the singer sowing machine sounding engine going past each morning I wouldn’t have given her a second look, beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say and in this instance … well a picture tells a thousand words
 

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Day 1, empty the ton of spares, parts, wheels, roll bar hoops, pedal boxes, engine bits out of the back… cut the canvas off and reveal the inner beauty.. oh hang on … theres a military grade roll bar hood stick kit now this is definitely being blasted, galved and re fitted.
 

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Well if it wasn’t for the singer sowing machine sounding engine going past each morning I wouldn’t have given her a second look, beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say and in this instance … well a picture tells a thousand words
Ah you’ll bring that old thing around no bother….lot of satisfaction waiting to happen there…great Land Rover that…I’d do it again too. Here’s a photo of my old 90. It looked beyond redemption before I started it. Folk laughed at me and told me to walk away. Nah, check her out now. Good luck with yours and enjoy doing it 🤙
 

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Ah you’ll bring that old thing around no bother….lot of satisfaction waiting to happen there…great Land Rover that…I’d do it again too. Here’s a photo of my old 90. It looked beyond redemption before I started it. Folk laughed at me and told me to walk away. Nah, check her out now. Good luck with yours and enjoy doing it 🤙
Inspiration right there !
 
Landy restore No 3 !
Its been in hiding since 2023 and finally made it home today. Lady Macbeth as shes know by her previous owner is a very early 90. An offer too good to refuse from the previous owner Val saw me purchasing my third landy and having to hide it away from mrs Hughes. Now that the s3 and 300tdi have found new homes its time to break the bad new to her 😂 well my youngest son let the cat out of the bag a few weeks ago so its safe to say Im out of the woods. Right that enough trivia lets get to the nitty gritty, every day while working at RAF valley GEF I saw this horrendous def zooming past the workshop at approximately 7.45 every morning, Valerie (appologies for using your full title) working at R&D used it as her daily driver, having spent many a happy year or should I say century green lane’in with her husband and daughter decided to sell “lady macbeth” and since I had shown an interest in this unicorn I was offered first refusal. Well Val didn’t half sell it to me a 7 owner def 90 reg Oct 1984 a galv chassis and a fully recon engine from turners just a few thousand mile ago how could I refuse.
As the proud and happy owner of Mr H's previous resto, christened 'Little Blue', I'll be following with interest! 150 faultless miles across Wales yesterday, and still smiling.
 

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Progress report, despite it being a day of rest the bloody cat “Hector” made sure I was up at 4.45am ! Convinced he was as keen as me to get out of bed and into the garage I later found out that Mrs Hughes has locked the cat flap while cleaning yesterday. Never the less I managed to stay in bed fully awake until 6.30 thinking about all things Defender. Strong coffee in hand I set myself a target, get the rear half off the chassis. Now its 6.30pm and for all of 12hrs of hammering and grinding this is whats left
 

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