I think I am lucky the Land Rover was covered in Snow when I collected her. She started no problems at all and there was no indoor water feature. Maybe we have not bonded enough yet.:)

The Ark Royal or just the The Ark are coming to mind. "We are going out in "The Ark Royal" seems a mouthful though.

Its just a little bit too much for me 20 degrees. I think I need to half the play to make it comfortable. I am going to check the steering box asap. Pig sounds great. We are toying with Naval name for HER seeing that she is in Marine Blue

We picked up the Land Rover today and drove from Chesterfield to Huddersfield in it (him/Her we don't know yet). Anyway I am chuffed to bits with the purchase of our 88" Pick up. Other than a little bit of play (20 degrees ish) and some missing heater pipes (the one that go to the screen ) I...

I think this is the easiest and best answer to understand. Cheers

Can anyone give me a basic guide to the red and yellow levers ? and how to start a diesel landrover i.e what lights should come on (and go off when started). In my old car I just wait for the glow plug light to go off then start, is it the same ? The Black lever is overdrive and i am ok with that.

I had a good nights sleep and I still want it. Now we have read the replies I am a lot more confident. Question is will I be able to collect it in the Snow on Monday ?

I bought it on eBay

After some deliberation (10mins) I decided not to buy a 66k Suzuki Jimny and went daft by buying (placing a deposit anyway) a 1978 Landrover 88" Diesel Pickup on Ebay. My only experience of Land Rovers is that my Grandfather had a 2a and a 90, both were petrol and both tatty. Anyway it looks in...