So, I was impatiently passing time flicking through ebay while waiting for a call to tell me that our 3rd child was about to pop into the world.
At the time I was right into 4x4 motor sport, mainly winch challenges, and was forming a plan to build a Hybrid from my recently written off 80 series Toyota Landcruiser. I'd sold my bob tailed Discovery 1 and was running about in a SWB shogun but had a hankering for a Land Rover of some sort. The plan was to pick up a defender body shell and glue it to the Toyota chassis and running gear.
I'd picked up a 110 tub and cab, had a few doors, a bonnet and some wings in the shed from years before so was on the hunt for a bulkhead. However, I came across an ex military 109 without an engine but otherwise 90% complete but with a crusty chassis. I reckoned it was just what I needed to for the Hybrid. Stuck a cheeky bid on and then got the call to go to the hospital. By the time I got home I was the proud new keeper of 2 Lily's. One, a perfect wee girl with all her fingers and toes and the other, a well abused 109 shell and running gear.
Fast forward a few years the 109 body was partially fitted to the LC chassis but the whole vehicle type approval thing reared its ugly head so the LC was broken for spares and sold on along with the 110 tub and cab. The old 109 was stacked in the corner of the garden to become home for the local wild life.
A couple more years have passed and Lily, the wee girl not the battered shell, is now 8 and a half, and desperate to learn how to weld and spanner. In a fairly sizeable jump from making a ladybird from an old oil can and a hobby horse from firewood, a broom handle and a welders apron for a school project, I've agreed to "help" her restore her namesake. Hopefully the whole thing will teach us both something useful.
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At the time I was right into 4x4 motor sport, mainly winch challenges, and was forming a plan to build a Hybrid from my recently written off 80 series Toyota Landcruiser. I'd sold my bob tailed Discovery 1 and was running about in a SWB shogun but had a hankering for a Land Rover of some sort. The plan was to pick up a defender body shell and glue it to the Toyota chassis and running gear.
I'd picked up a 110 tub and cab, had a few doors, a bonnet and some wings in the shed from years before so was on the hunt for a bulkhead. However, I came across an ex military 109 without an engine but otherwise 90% complete but with a crusty chassis. I reckoned it was just what I needed to for the Hybrid. Stuck a cheeky bid on and then got the call to go to the hospital. By the time I got home I was the proud new keeper of 2 Lily's. One, a perfect wee girl with all her fingers and toes and the other, a well abused 109 shell and running gear.
Fast forward a few years the 109 body was partially fitted to the LC chassis but the whole vehicle type approval thing reared its ugly head so the LC was broken for spares and sold on along with the 110 tub and cab. The old 109 was stacked in the corner of the garden to become home for the local wild life.
A couple more years have passed and Lily, the wee girl not the battered shell, is now 8 and a half, and desperate to learn how to weld and spanner. In a fairly sizeable jump from making a ladybird from an old oil can and a hobby horse from firewood, a broom handle and a welders apron for a school project, I've agreed to "help" her restore her namesake. Hopefully the whole thing will teach us both something useful.
