who ever butchered this together needs shooting

wiltshire landyman said:

beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

if everyone had the same taste what a boring world it would be

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I agree wiv him.
if you kept all the old cars ever made as standard, there be no room left for new ****e.


oh, oooaaarrr man,
my boot floor and arches all nice now thankyou oooaaarrr man...

you have to get off yer ass and mend older cars like mine from time to time....
mines only 21 years old, but good for miles yet..
at least 10 more.....

some just cant grasp that concept though...

theres not that many series 1s left

but the seller admits to a few patches.
does that equate to needing much more than yet another patch james?


over the years I had simular chats with the banger crowd,
as they/we took nice tin out and smashed to smitherines in a few laps.
but, as I said, if you kept all the older cars, they would be no room left..

good examples of anything are woth keeping,
but badly patched up & chopped examples end up as mobile parts bins in time.

wish I could post photos (dohhh)
but a guy near me has a small yard with ever changing stock of old landies.
seems the good get saved,
mended with the bad ones that get chopped for usable spares.
It one of lifes cycles, but in landies.....

It's actually a Defender with leaf springs fitted and series panels.

Like the number plate, suit a builder

im more than aware of that ,thats why no one saves old discos ,theres thousands of them,but series 1s have mostly been butchered already,it would be nice to keep more than a few out there of 50 year old vehicles for people to enjoy as they were meant to be

wiltshire landyman said:

series should all be left to rot in fields where they belong

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Heathen

series should all be left to rot in fields where they belong

Freelaner said:

Heathen

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Its just Ironic, its fields that were in the mind of series 1 designers....

easye1 said:

series should all be left to rot in fields where they belong


Its just Ironic, its fields that were in the mind of series 1 designers....

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the original tratter

Freelaner said:

the original tratter

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when i was a kid we used series 2s and 3s as that

jamesmartin said:

when i was a kid we used series 2s and 3s as that

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your THAT old.....

not as old as youbut series were current at the time

jamesmartin said:

when i was a kid we used series 2s and 3s as that

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that's why they had a pto

did you drive anything from the pto?

I must be honest,
I never "really" like any landie years ago,
I used to service a series 3 (think it was)
used it once to tow my stock car/trailor/spares to a meeting and hated it.
much prefured my old volvo tow car/estate...
but It was not going offroad/muddy to the pits areas so it was just tow it to, then from the race meeting..

now many many years later after owning my disco for 3 odd years I now love landies.
will have to drive an old series again to revaluate my old opinions of them.
Is there still a problem with old mens belly/steering wheel clashing of what I can remember...

easye1 said:

I must be honest,
I never "really" like any landie years ago,
I used to service a series 3 (think it was)
used it once to tow my stock car/trailor/spares to a meeting and hated it.
much prefured my old volvo tow car/estate...
but It was not going offroad/muddy to the pits areas so it was just tow it to, then from the race meeting..

now many many years later after owning my disco for 3 odd years I now love landies.
will have to drive an old series again to revaluate my old opinions of them.
Is there still a problem with old mens belly/steering wheel clashing of what I can remember...

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yer must have a hell of a podge old boy

i manage to get mine in behind the wheel no probs

Freelaner said:

that's why they had a pto

did you drive anything from the pto?

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only belt work for potatoe riddle and bench saw,pulls a 3 ton trailer,harrows etc ok and a horse plough ,and you can get 40 bags of spuds in one = 1 ton

jamesmartin said:

only belt work for potatoe riddle and bench saw,pulls a 3 ton trailer,harrows etc ok and a horse plough ,and you can get 40 bags of spuds in one = 1 ton

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once saw a film of the old boys using belt driven accessories, fascinating stuff but bleddy dangerous

threshing machine was one :screaming_bug_eye_f

most had common sense then

jamesmartin said:

not as old as youbut series were current at the time

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Freelaner said:

yer must have a hell of a podge old boy

i manage to get mine in behind the wheel no probs

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been told I was stout!



but they was lying....

its the fixed/not very movable seat that I remember coz of bulkhead ???

jamesmartin said:

im more than aware of that ,thats why no one saves old discos ,theres thousands of them,but series 1s have mostly been butchered already,it would be nice to keep more than a few out there of 50 year old vehicles for people to enjoy as they were meant to be

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Just go on the Series 1 owners club site... there are still LOADS kicking around, and a lot of them in very good, original, shiny condition