PHOTO SPAM TIME

Photos of the Series III with Holden 186 engine.

Cut away in the left r/h corner.

Air blower would originally have been located here.

A good daylight photo of the 186 Holden motor.

Bottom from modifications carried out for engine swap.

A neat little unit.

Hmmm, cammo carpet interior.

Dashboard and seats. 

PICKING UP THE GUMP MO-BEEL

This morning we hired a car trailer from the local BP servo.  A decent price when booked online and just around the corner from home.

Richard and Andrew came over to help tow "Forrest" out of the shed and onto the trailer in preparation for the trip to his new home.

We haven't abandoned "Bev", she will just have to wait up the farm a little bit longer.

OH NO, WHAT HAVE WE DONE!

I want to keep her old charm as it's what attracted me to her in the first place.  I would like to see her restored and running but I don't want to take away that aged patina and uniqueness that tells her story just by looking at her. I love the faded panel paint, I love the surface rust and the weathered timber planks on her tray. Basically, I want the chassis and engine restored but I want the panel work and tray to still look the same.

We couldn't reach an agreement on just how far to go with "Bev" the farm girl so I found Garry another Landy to restore to his heart's content.

This one was a lot closer to home, a Series 3 88" SWB with a 186 Holden motor. ("Bev" has her original motor)  Chassis no 90302164A  which I've searched on Clifton.nl

Needs a bit of a clean and goodness knows what else!

Cammo look carpet glued to interior.

We've both been reading TimNZ's thread on this forum (MY 88" Series 3) and are so impressed by his posts and his methodical approach to restoring the Series 3 inherited from his grandfather. Not to mention the serious workshop envy after seeing all the fantastic photos. We can't emulate Tim's workshop and we realized that the space we have available to us is in serious need of reorganization.

Garry has been in the building game for 41 years, starting as an apprentice carpenter with his dad who was also a carpenter builder. Our son is also a chippy but showing no interest in a builder's ticket. We've had our builder's yard for 18 yrs and in that time have managed to amass all sorts of things. We're tail lend baby boomers, we don't throw good stuff away!

Pano shot of the mess. 

All that is about to change and today we spent about 4 hours sorting, tidying and most importantly throwing things out. There is a good sized area in which to work but it just needs re-organizing. The shed itself is 9 x 6 mtrs but some of that is given over to timber, tools and fittings storage which it's not practical at this stage to discard as we are still a trading business with plant and equipment to store. There is also an under-cover area about 1500 wide at the back of the shed which runs the full length and will be ideal for storing any body panels, tyres and sundry parts etc. Once we finished at the yard, we took a full trailer load over for disposal. There is still a lot more work to do and as always the dogs are in supervisory mode.

Looking better

Temporary work bench.

 1 Full trailer

The Series 3 has been housed in a back yard shed for the last 8yrs and was purchase for a gentleman by his daughter, a retirement project if you will. Problem is he's 72 and hasn't yet retired yet so hasn't had time to work on it. He has a rego paper that states it was last registered in 2006. We don't know much more other than it has a 186 Holden motor and looks like it has been used for camping.

We will be going over to pick it up on Tuesday so will be able to take more photos in better light, the shed being too dark to take photos of the engine.

As he's been living in the suburb of Forrestfield for the last 8 years and is green we've christened him Forrest.

HOUSE TREEN of PARKWOOD - The Landy is coming!

Introducing the Hounds of House Treen (a nod to Game of Thrones for those of you who are not fans of the show.)

Our two originals are: 

Dusty the Red Cloud Kelpie aka "Big Girl" who is 11. Pretty easy going, scared of thunder and loud noises, likes to bark.

I'm cool.

Just don't piss me off.

Ned the Black and Tan Kelpie aka "Stinky" is 8.

A real farm dog.

All round cutie.

And TV addict. 

Jamie  the Poodle Cross aka "J'amie" commonly referred to as Little White Dog (so he doesn't know we're talking about him - he's too intuitive for his own good) is about 7, came from the pound and was inherited by us after my mum passed away.

Jamie of House Treen - The Landy is coming.

Sand flag and hi viz? Yes you little sh*t and iPhone too.  I will find you where ever you run.

Food thief too. 

Then there are the visitors

Molly aka "Mon Mon" the Rhodesian Ridgeback who seems to sleep a lot, when she gets settled.

And last but not least "Archie" the Bichon/Maltese/Silky?  Yeah, yeah, we've all heard the joke about what his mum got up too.

Cuteness faxtor X 2 - don't be fooled, they're bossy little buggers.

PHOTO SPAM - JULY 28

Obviously a fire, perhaps a controlled burn.

The spare door was off a Dyna Truck

Bonus spider on the engine.

Work ute in position for pumping up the tyres.

RECONNOITER MISSION - SERIES 2A LAND ROVER

In early July 2017 after looking through some old photos I came across the shots I had taken of an old Land Rover.  I thought it would be pretty cool to restore it so I decided to convince my husband, Garry, it would be a good project to work on together.  He wasn’t overly keen at first having other commitments on his mind like running our building business.  I worked on him for a week or two and printed off a couple of articles from the online back issues of Land Rover Magazine so he could read about what other people were doing.

"Bev"

I sent a message, with a copy of the photo, to the WA Land Rover Owners Club facebook group to see if they could help with identification.  A quick response told us it was a Series IIA and a few Google searches provided us with a bit more information but we didn't have a chassis or serial number.  We didn't even have a photo of the front end as I was more focused on a photo of the dogs at the time.  I'm sure my priorities will soon change!

After a quick conversation with John the Landy owner, it was to be ours free of charge.  He was happy for it to be gone (hmm, I've heard the same comment before) and said it had been parked up for about 5 years because of the brakes and most importantly it had a motor.  I suspect it may have been parked up a bit longer than that but I’m not going to argue.  John originally got it from a local guy after he bartered it for some drawing work.  John is a drafty.

On the road into the farm.

We’ve just taken a quick trip out to the farm to carry out a recce in order to determine what steps need to be taken to get “Bev” onto a hire trailer.  No point wasting our money hiring a trailer, driving 1 ½ hrs out there only to discover that the wheels don’t turn. 

It was also an opportunity to take the new work ute for a run and after cleaning that off when we got home, we've now realized it's not going to be practical for us to high pressure clean "Bev" at our yard as we initially intended.  We not only need to clean the buildup of mud off "Bev" when we bring her down to Perth but we have to clean up the hire trailer and the ute too.  Granted there wasn't a lot of mud on the ute last time but the gravel dust is still on the road outside our house.

We've managed to organize a more suitable area in which to conduct the cleanup op., so now we need to organize and plan the retrieval. 

For the trip in and out, we now know that if we take the same route in to the farm we have a 14.6 km drive along a not so good gravel road.  Or we can take another route and drive 9.1 kms along a different gravel road that is in better condition but adds a little extra travelling time.

Ready to pump up the tyres. Note the red Falcon hiding behind the Landy.  That's Shirl's Shaggin' Wagn'

As you will hear in the video, it was very windy and bitterly cold when we were pumping up the tyres.  The sky was heavy and ominous with dark clouds threatening rain at any moment.  We'd  just managed to get all the tyres pumped up when the rain hit.  You could see it working it's way across from the west.  Luckily we had taken a thermos and were able to sit on the verandah sipping a hot cup of tea, hoping the rain would soon stop.  The break for a cuppa also gave us a chance for a bit more Googling as we now had a chassis number.

The stamped aluminium plate attached to our body has the code 25323636D.  It's very badly faded and looks to be riveted in place as opposed to the many we have seen that are screwed into place.  We found that by altering the filters you are able to see a little more clearly what was originally printed in the background.  Only just.

Here is a link that we found very helpful.  You can enter your chassis number after you click on the yellow LR vin button on the Left Hand side.
http://www.clifton.nl/

253
Model: LR Series 2A
Body Type: Basic
Wheel Base: 109 inch
Eng: Petrol
Model Years: 1962-71
Destination: Completely Knocked down (CKD) r/h drive (RHD)

23636 = Serial No.

D = Desgin.  3 significant design modifications.  Suffix used from April 1967 till Mar 1968.

A little more eye candy.  Note:  the high lift jack was only used to take the weight off the tyres while we tried to get some air in them as we only had the small compressor. 

We successfully pumped up all 4 tyres and managed to tow "Bev" forward so we know getting her on a trailers will be easy.