Yes a lot are like that, luckily the garage down the road from me specialises in old stuff and land rovers so knows what’s what - they fitted the clutch servo device recently and welded an outrigger on.
They must be old school if they can weld as thats another thing modern cars dont need much anymore, when I was a youngun my sideline was welding cars for a one man band and it was literally non stop one after the other!