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Grapevine Track in 1985ish







Pretty sure the red L.R is the Springrice's machine.

Maratoto, in the Wires Loop late 1980's








The green L.R in the last photo is called Loretta. Some will remember it/them

Taumatatotara

Waitapheta in the mid 1990s. Longest Turfor hand winch mission ever

42 Traverse





The S3 L.R in the last photo is called Peaches. The heart of Peaches along with the PTO and winch lives on in Dave.

This is Dave







Dave lives in Australia and is still running the original engine from Peaches. Dave has been EVERYWHERE

Some nostalgia

The new toy in 1984:



Me, my brother and Mum

An early trip, not sure where though?? Maybe Nevisville??

Anyways, i painted the tub this weekend











Looks ok for a back yard special

Decided too have a crack at fixing the seat box. Roped Daniel in to try some alloy tig welding on it






It should do the job. Radiator panel next up

In case you were wondering

DieselBoy wrote:Decided too have a crack at fixing the seat box. Roped Daniel in to try some alloy tig welding on it

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It should do the job. Radiator panel next up

In case you were wondering

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Is that an Escort Cossie shell in the background...??

Those older photos are awesome! Loving your work too, keep it up

Mehrts wrote:Those older photos are awesome! Loving your work too, keep it up

ditto.. lots of cool memories

Bit of a landmark moment last night, engine back in



The tubs also just sitting there for safe keeping out of harms way



Many many more hours to spend still

Hi Dieselboy

Just spend a little time reading your 2 topics , this one on the S1, plus your 110... Boy have you got the Landrover bug BAD

Glad to see the end of the road with the S1,, Well done, getting there,,

My 55 S1 and 110

Wow just found this, awesome. You need to upload moms video of dad starting the engine...

Pete also has a slight obsession with suzukis as well

Looking forward to seeing this done looks great!

Rusty wrote:Looking forward to seeing this done looks great!

It's still getting love Brakes done, new(hand me down) tyres fitted engine electrics and dash working, some lights in the front sorta working.

But more painting and odds and ends to do still

The other weekend it left the garage under its own power for the first time in 4 years.

That afternoon we got carried away and started fishing parts out of the depths of the shed to refit....

We have had the restored front fenders stashed away carefully, so with the exhaust valve clearances set (side valve engine), the time to fit them was now

To finish off the guards and hide some of my repairs, we adapted some S3 alloy guard tops to fit. They make good work benches too.

Time to sort out some of the minor issues, wrecked doors, tail gate that doesn't fit the new cross member, bent bonnet etc

This is the best I can do to give the doors another chance short of making a new skin for them. Maybe I'll do that on the next rebuild
So what your looking at, is two alloy doors that are quite damaged. Once alloy is damaged it doesn't come back into shape, it stretches and gets a spring to it.

So the experiment is to make a reinforcing plate to go in behind, and urethane it in place to take the spring out of the skin. Most use rivets to hold the reinforcing plate in place until the urethane sets. You them grind the heads off the rivets and job done.

In this case you see both sides of the door skin, so rivets weren't ideal. Tried self tapping screws as an experiment and seems to have worked out ok, the screws came out tonight and the plate stayed tight to the door skin

Dad on the strip disc taking the bonnet back to bare alloy. It's hopefully gonna be the blingest straightest panel of them all. Maybe haha
And the bloody tailgate. Who knew huh Better tidy this up properly later on

Slapped some flares on for WOF purposes. I kinda liked it better with out, but they are necessary


It's been up and down the road an few times and the donor motor of dubious condition after sitting in a crate for 30 years seems to be getting better with each run and tweak

Yes
Mr T's grin must have been huge

That's sensational. Top effort

Doors

They look ok on the inside too

Great work!

Got myself a series 2 SWB that needs the same attention. Difficult to get the body off the chassis?