TooMany2cvs
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So, Landy ownership starts here.
Moving from the SE to the wild hills of Herefordshire last year gave us a need for something with four paws dragging it about. A brief dalliance with a P-reg Shogun reminded me exactly why I don't tend to go for plastic-and-electronic Japanese "sensible" vehicles (see also: username). When that died the other month, we started to briefly consider something more in keeping with the Meccano-ness of the rest of the fleet.
An infatuation with an ad for an airportable ended rapidly with the realisation that not only was it effectively on the dark side of the moon, but the vendor was a mouth-breather of the first order, so the search started. After trawling umpteen ads (do LRO _ever_ remove ads for Sold vehicles from their site?) and having a look at a couple of utter disappointments, we've just been a couple of miles down the road and found an utterly lovely, totally un-fiddled-with 1980 88" SW. 42k miles from being bought new in the next town, and a service book fully stamped up (albeit with 17yrs between 27k and 36k services!)
No MOT, of course, and a list of (noticed) issues that mean I need to arrange a trailer to collect it. One crunchy outrigger and very sticky-bindy brakes are the biggest jobs, but it's definitely not charging and it needs a damn good service.
So... the learning curve ahead is steep enough to have me selecting mental low range. My toolbox is entirely metric. I know nothing about who to avoid when buying parts. Educate me, new friends, educate me...
Adrian
PS - to forestall the inevitable - yes, pics to come when it gets collected. But, to keep you all happy...
Moving from the SE to the wild hills of Herefordshire last year gave us a need for something with four paws dragging it about. A brief dalliance with a P-reg Shogun reminded me exactly why I don't tend to go for plastic-and-electronic Japanese "sensible" vehicles (see also: username). When that died the other month, we started to briefly consider something more in keeping with the Meccano-ness of the rest of the fleet.
An infatuation with an ad for an airportable ended rapidly with the realisation that not only was it effectively on the dark side of the moon, but the vendor was a mouth-breather of the first order, so the search started. After trawling umpteen ads (do LRO _ever_ remove ads for Sold vehicles from their site?) and having a look at a couple of utter disappointments, we've just been a couple of miles down the road and found an utterly lovely, totally un-fiddled-with 1980 88" SW. 42k miles from being bought new in the next town, and a service book fully stamped up (albeit with 17yrs between 27k and 36k services!)
No MOT, of course, and a list of (noticed) issues that mean I need to arrange a trailer to collect it. One crunchy outrigger and very sticky-bindy brakes are the biggest jobs, but it's definitely not charging and it needs a damn good service.
So... the learning curve ahead is steep enough to have me selecting mental low range. My toolbox is entirely metric. I know nothing about who to avoid when buying parts. Educate me, new friends, educate me...
Adrian
PS - to forestall the inevitable - yes, pics to come when it gets collected. But, to keep you all happy...
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