simonallen
New Member
Hello all,
I have been looking for a good LHD 110 TDi 3 door hard top for about a year now (in UK, Spain and Germany) and I haven't been lucky yet. I am sure I join a long queue of others that are hoping for the same luck. Withams have some good LHD hard tops (latest are 1995 models) and have been really helpful, but their vehicles all have the much berated 2.5NA engine. They also inform me that they haven't seen a TDi version come through the doors as yet. Am not a committed restorer, only a meticulous maintainer so I was hoping not to be making a long list of modifications to get it set up for the south of Spain. Older vehicles in Spain can be quite awful due to the rather substandard ITV test and more liberal style of driving (can I say that?), so it somehow made sense to get something first in the UK that had been well maintained.
So does anybody know if Land Rover ever supplied the MoD with such LHD vehicles? Am I perhaps chasing rainbows? It may that I have just to sit and wait a bit for them to filter through or perhaps I am looking at upgrading a base vehicle. Converting RHD to LHD is a no go I think - the Spanish cops won't like it that I'm sitting on the wrong side of the vehicle.
Great forum by the way and a great place to make large amounts of time disappear. Many thanks in advance for any advice here.
Simon
I have been looking for a good LHD 110 TDi 3 door hard top for about a year now (in UK, Spain and Germany) and I haven't been lucky yet. I am sure I join a long queue of others that are hoping for the same luck. Withams have some good LHD hard tops (latest are 1995 models) and have been really helpful, but their vehicles all have the much berated 2.5NA engine. They also inform me that they haven't seen a TDi version come through the doors as yet. Am not a committed restorer, only a meticulous maintainer so I was hoping not to be making a long list of modifications to get it set up for the south of Spain. Older vehicles in Spain can be quite awful due to the rather substandard ITV test and more liberal style of driving (can I say that?), so it somehow made sense to get something first in the UK that had been well maintained.
So does anybody know if Land Rover ever supplied the MoD with such LHD vehicles? Am I perhaps chasing rainbows? It may that I have just to sit and wait a bit for them to filter through or perhaps I am looking at upgrading a base vehicle. Converting RHD to LHD is a no go I think - the Spanish cops won't like it that I'm sitting on the wrong side of the vehicle.
Great forum by the way and a great place to make large amounts of time disappear. Many thanks in advance for any advice here.
Simon