Yeah, they're different. I suppose it's to allow the door top to come off when you take the roof off. Pretty cool idea. I'm not so keen on the lights at the back though; I may change them for the UK style round lights at some stage.

Yeah, we're best of mates now hehe. I'm going to let it sit at the country house (not mine, I'm not landed gentry) over Christmas as I'm off to the UK for a few weeks. Then I should have some time to do a few bits. It was built that way. Santana often made a few changes of their own based on...

A pic of the back. Quite a novel door, which separates like the front doors, so the top can come off if I want to take the roof off.

I've wanted a series landy for years and set my sights on buying one this year. After a couple of disappointments (people selling the damn things before I could even get to see them) I saw this one and went for it. I sent money up front (no more than I could afford to lose) to secure it, and on...

I do try, generally. I'll have a bit of a nosy around the site before I start jumping in full-throttle though. Maybe start taking note of post dates and stuff like that hehe

Fair play. I wasn't looking at that. I'm a complete noob, and showing it with no shame...

I'm no expert, but with the bit I know and looking at this purely from the pic of the front end of the vehicle it is probably the Santana 2500, which Santana brought out in answer to the Defender. They made them in short and long wheel bases I think. Called it the 2500 because they put a 2.5ltr...

Hello all. Great to see that there's a forum with so many knowledgeable people. I might need some kindly dispensed advice at some time in the near future. I've always had a fascination with land-rovers, especially series, but I've never got around actually owning one, for one reason or another...