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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #41
Great anti theft system 😁
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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #42
I’m gonna show mine this picture... it gives me crap, and it lives in a warm dry shed - it has no idea the pain and suffering of its cousins! I’ll bet if you could get past the rubble that thing would just drive out!!
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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #43
She is a bit older than your Girl Killiand, that is a 2A from the sixties, actually they were there from the late fifties until about 1971, the last of them had The headlights on the wings but still had the dash in the middle.
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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #44
I've always preferred the look of the inboard headlights as opposed to those mounted out on the wings.
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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #45
When we went yo Gozo Scuba Diving in the 90ies, the car hire company used to get pickups like that from the farmers and hire them to us as dive truck's.
Some of them didn't look any better then that sad one in the shed.
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 ·  Posted: 13.09.2018  ·  #46
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Discovered whilst in Malta last week.


 



I bet you could have driven it out with a fresh battery.
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 ·  Posted: 14.09.2018  ·  #47
You would bust a half shaft easily driving it out of there. I had a LWB IIA with a 202ci 6cyl in it. To say the driving experience was crude would be an understatement. No syncroshift so double clutching was the norm and the pedal effort required was substantial.
The vehicle had character though.
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 ·  Posted: 14.09.2018  ·  #48
You are spot on there Huan, they liked their half shafts alright, the later series 3 had a salbury axles and wasn’t as troublesome. The lwb had a very bad lock in the steering and they were geared very low, that could be sorted by fitting a fairy overdrive which doubled the number of gears and improved the gear ratio. They were so basic, if my memory serves me right the cab heater was an extra when buying new.
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 ·  Posted: 14.09.2018  ·  #49
Mine was an ex- airport fire tender, it had a solar roof as well, a thin sheet of alloy that sat just above the ribs, stopping too much heat from entering the cab.
It also had a manual heater installed in it from an unknown donor, it was a box that sat in the footwell with a manual fan switch. No insect screens on the front vents either.
Firewall rusted away as is common and the rear chassis members also rusted out.
Manual locking front hubs.
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 ·  Posted: 14.09.2018  ·  #50
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Mine was an ex- airport fire tender, it had a solar roof as well, a thin sheet of alloy that sat just above the ribs, stopping too much heat from entering the cab.
It also had a manual heater installed in it from an unknown donor, it was a box that sat in the footwell with a manual fan switch. No insect screens on the front vents either.
Firewall rusted away as is common and the rear chassis members also rusted out.
Manual locking front hubs.

Models with that roof were called a safari, they usually were the 5 door version, the locking hubs were an extra and most were Manual.
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 ·  Posted: 16.09.2018  ·  #51
Mine was a 3 door lwb with the side seating arrangement in the back (if you could call it seating).
Looking at[url=

] this video[/url] it was very similar,but without the rear passenger doors and a bulkier heater and mine had some seats out of a Brit passenger car instead of a bench seat.
Same colour as well.
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 ·  Posted: 16.09.2018  ·  #52
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Mine was a 3 door lwb with the side seating arrangement in the back (if you could call it seating).
Looking at[url=

] this video[/url] it was very similar,but without the rear passenger doors and a bulkier heater and mine had some seats out of a Brit passenger car instead of a bench seat.
Same colour as well.


The one in the video is a series 1, it is older than the series 2a in Ally's Photo., I never drove or worked on one of those, the one in the video would be one of the last of that model. Wish I had one though.
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 ·  Posted: 17.09.2018  ·  #53
Mine was a 1968 so wouldn’t have been s1 it was a 11a. They are some primitive vehicles looking back now. Fun 20 years ago though. Someone said the halfshaft fragility was to prevent driveline damage further forward kind of a sacrificial weak link if you can describe it as that.
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #54
Came across this a while ago.
 
 
 
 
 
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #55
I want!
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #56
Now that's cool.
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #57
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I want!


He is a mobile fitter/mechanic working around Wexford you could make him an offer.
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #58
Tidy mounting, much better than many caravan to motorhome conversions that I have seen, I wonder what a 130 would be able to handle in terms of Bodies?
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #59
Think the Talisman was monocoque therefore no seams to leak, combine that with the Landrover it’s close to ideal
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 ·  Posted: 21.09.2018  ·  #60
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I want!



Hi Ally it must be getting near your time for a change 😋. Isn't it about every two months that you change😀
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 ·  Posted: 24.10.2018  ·  #61
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Their website is Carnone Country Vehicles, telephone 074 9146252.


after a number of failed ebay attempts and nonsense quotes from dublin shaft shops, these boys will be getting my business :) Spoke to Richard today, going to drop in as I'm up that way Friday - unfortunately he won't have the part then but I'm literally in Ballybofey anyway so said I'd head in! Thanks John!
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 ·  Posted: 24.10.2018  ·  #62
If he has before Monday I can bring it south for you on way to ferry in cork.
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #63
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Quote by Ally

I want!


He is a mobile fitter/mechanic working around Wexford you could make him an offer.


get thee behind me Satan-
i have been reformed from landrover ownership -nearly 20 years !!
-but -i still like to look.
When there were 5 carefully placed around the premises- i had an ultimatum-them or me!
but i still look.-and she was probably right.
Do you have an address for that one in malta?
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #64
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Came across this a while ago.
 
 
 
 
 




I'm sure that's the same one I seen in Wicklow Town....Cant remember if it was early this year or last, but definitely seen it.
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #65
Someone was very inventive with that?
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #66
Panda. I wouldn't be surprised I'm nearly sure the guy is a plant fitter I saw him in Boggan's concrete yard in Wexford.

Jack. they put that series of Auto-Sleeper Talisman on lots of different Cab and chassis vehicles.
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #67
There is a guy that has a premises rented out beside big fans concrete alright and he has a load of old defenders in various styles. Also has a double decker bus that he brought to electric picnic a couple of years. Real party bus
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 ·  Posted: 07.11.2018  ·  #68
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Jack. they put that series of Auto-Sleeper Talisman on lots of different Cab and chassis vehicles.

I think Jack is right, looks like a conversion all right, all of those rivets on the cab roof extinction don't look original other than that it looks great
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 ·  Posted: 08.11.2018  ·  #69
Met the owner / converter at Moat Farm campsite in 2017. He is a fitter living in Wicklow and a real Defender enthusiast. He bought the motorhome - a Talbot based Auto-sleeper and grafted the body on to the defender. It took him a long time and was a real labour of love. He has put together a very effective rig - well constructed. He told me there are a couple of other defender owners who have converted military ambulances so keep your eyes open out there they are around.
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #70
Just in case the weather gets bad...

 



£60,00 and it's yours.
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #71
60,000 and you can keep it, probably was less than 1,000 new in the 60’s
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #72
I actually saw one of them in Scotland years ago.
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #73
Saw one of them up in the highlands of Scotland this year along with other snow ploughing equipment sitting at a compound beside a garage.
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #74
Where does the step ladder go after you have climbed in?
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 ·  Posted: 23.12.2018  ·  #75
It looks like the steps may be up the back tracks.
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 ·  Posted: 15.01.2019  ·  #76
MOT center took exception to the smoke, so a good time for an engine rebuild. Rebore, oversized pistons, new bearings, seals, etc. Hope it's worth it!
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 ·  Posted: 18.09.2019  ·  #77
So.......... always wanted one and Ive been looking lately. It'll be an old one.

What engines to definitely not touch?
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 ·  Posted: 18.09.2019  ·  #78
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What engines to definitely not touch?


All of them 😂
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 ·  Posted: 18.09.2019  ·  #79
There is a new defender type to be called "Grenadier" coming out of a big investment in a new manufacturing plant in Wales due to be on sale 2021.
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 ·  Posted: 18.09.2019  ·  #80
The new Land Rover Defender for 2020 is a car, a real let down. So the Grenadier will be needed for farmers etc
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