Seth 88

Seth 88

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Hi all,
Been looking for a classic Series for a fair while to restore with my son over the next few years.

Bought a 1983 Series III 88 2.5D hardtop and drove it home from Bath to Norfolk (200+ miles) yesterday!

Got lots of plans to restore to a sound mechanical state and looking forward to learning lots from all the knowledge and experience on here!

Hopefully the pic uploads OK. I know its got a non-standard grill and colour etc, but not too fussed. Just want to enjoy it and when restoring will decide whether to return to standard or not.

I'm new to Landys and this site....

Regards
Chris
 

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Welcome to the forum, looks like you've got a bit of a rolling restoration on yer hands. Plenty of parts available for it though
 
Thanks all for the warm welcome.
Yes, I was expecting to buy a trailer load
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of parts to be honest, so to find one with MOT til Oct was a surprise, so def a rolling resto till then, but will probably take it off the road at that point to strip it down etc.

Pics! I have one or two more I'll add now and going out to investigate the play in the steering (wish I'd had those bumper lanes kids use at bowling when driving home the other day, its that bad!) And a couple of other bits today so will take some some then.

I assume there's another place I should start a thread for that stuff, so will do some exploring and try and find it :)
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Seth 88 said:
Thanks all for the warm welcome.
Yes, I was expecting to buy a trailer loadView attachment 211351 View attachment 211352 of parts to be honest, so to find one with MOT til Oct was a surprise, so def a rolling resto till then, but will probably take it off the road at that point to strip it down etc.

Pics! I have one or two more I'll add now and going out to investigate the play in the steering (wish I'd had those bumper lanes kids use at bowling when driving home the other day, its that bad!) And a couple of other bits today so will take some some then.

I assume there's another place I should start a thread for that stuff, so will do some exploring and try and find it :)View attachment 211349 View attachment 211350
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There's here for your restoration thread

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/members-vehicles-projects.82/

And here for series questions

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/forum/series-land-rovers.6/

And the site's also got a search facility.

Paddocks do decent paint when you're ready :D
 
Cheers Mamaduke, really appreciate the pointers!

Paint? I assumed I wouldn't need any once I got a healthy smattering of mud covering all the bodywork! :)
 
Ha! Yes, that was a pic just before we drove away from picking it up after the seller kindly gave us a couple of gallons of diesel!
 
Seth 88 said:
Fair point, I reckon that even as a newbie I can manage that!! Will wait for the rain to ease and put that first on my list! :cool:
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If you struggle get the lad to help. In fact send him out in the rain to fix it. It's character building :D
 
Ha, bless him, he spent all afternoon out there yesterday with his sister exploring it, tinkering and checking what falls off and doesn't!
 
Looks a good straight SIII from the pics :) - what about under the bonnet - it must have an injun if you drove him/her home ;)
 
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