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Offline blenky

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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2015, 06:26:58 pm »
I know its been a while but had a lot going on and land rovers have been bottom of the list.

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Offline Gossamer

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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2015, 09:43:38 am »
Lookin' good.

I'll have another station wagon eventually.

Hope you don't mind me drooling over yours at t'Pit.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2015, 10:14:10 am »
Takes me back to my very first Land Rover APG490H.

Again a Lights in the wing 2a LWB Safari in Limestone, although when I bought it in 1991 it had had its 6cyl replaced with a Perkins D4.203, which I subsequently substituted an SD1 V8 for.

Learned a lot with that Land Rover, sadly it was damaged (along with my lower back) in a collision in Leeds. After a few years on the garden I sold it to a friend of a friend who wanted to put it back on the road. As usual said **** scrapped it a year later to my disgust. It just needed a new dumb iron, n/s front spring and wing!

Makes me sad to think of all the LRs I have seen senslessly scrapped over the years.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2015, 10:23:55 am »
Some folks aren't 'connected' with 'em like we are.

Land Rovers seem to find me before they collapse.

They run fine until I get em home then mulitple faults appear.

I drove my ambulance off the trailer, round the crescent and onto my drive when it arrived from Blanchards.

I parked it up and later the same day tried to start it again, nothing would fire.

Closer inspection revealed, eventally, THREE separate faults within the dizzy. It should never have run at all.

THe series two went like stink from the PO in Stroud to Tewkesbury, where I work. then died in the hotel carpark.

It hasn't run since, the battery tray under the seat had crapped out and the earths failed. I'm working on that now but I have to get the seat box out to do it properly so I'm concentrating on the ambulance for a while.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2015, 10:33:51 am »
Nice. I've had a hankering for a 109 safari for yonks.
I thought 231 chassis numbers were reserved for Tacr1s. Shows what I know.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2015, 10:46:58 am »
I thought the fourth digit showed year of manufacture too.

My ambi shows a two but it's one from a batch made in 1971 according to my MVT inspection.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #21 on: July 17, 2015, 11:03:42 am »
I recall hearing that the suffix G were only on the 2A 6cylinders but I may be wrong, certainly APG was a G
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #22 on: July 17, 2015, 11:07:25 am »
The ambi is suffix H
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #23 on: July 17, 2015, 11:47:35 am »

This is whats left from the doir that didnt look to bad. If had been filled and painted. It just fell to bits when i took the skin off which is in really good nick. Also the doors and other panels have a light blue almost grey paint on them under layers of paint. I will try and fine an area that shows it well.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2015, 05:06:19 pm »
Good work mate, for me the late series 2a 109 s/w is the best looking land rover ever made

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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2015, 06:02:51 pm »
cheers dude. fingers crossed I will get **** on soon. Ive got a 2a 88 to get sold after a fresh coat of paint.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #26 on: August 19, 2015, 06:22:19 pm »

Fitted the nice shiny grill i got from espacekiller.


Nicked the doors of the swb as its having new ones for its fresh paint job.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2015, 01:31:05 am »
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Re: 1971 109 sw
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2016, 03:29:26 pm »




Need new felt runners and a paint but not bad for free scrap doors.
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Re: 1971 109 sw
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