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Another V8 in Auckland, NZ
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:14 am
by datsta
I bought this in August 2011, my first Land-Rover. It's 1983 in good order, showing 93,000 km which appears to be right from the paperwork they gave me. It was de-registered for 5 years and I think was parked in a barn. When re-registered it had the chassis sandblasted, inspected and painted and various new parts added like brake hoses, cylinders, shocks.
Apparently it was originally a Government vehicle, but not an Army one. I have fitted a Proform HEI distributor because I don't like points. A Pertronics one would have been an easier fit.
Had fun yesterday with about a dozen others in the Land-Rover Owners' Club Auckland, running through the forest tracks at Woodhill. I learnt all about low ratio and diff-lock! It was the oldest vehicle on the day, the others were Defenders and Discoverys. Their coil suspensions worked a lot better than my leaf springs.
I have added a mains power socket so can use powered campsites and I'm looking forward to March 2012 where wife & I will be spending 3 weeks in the South Island, finding salmon to catch in those gravel rivers with 4WD tracks and visiting Warbirds over Wanaka at Easter.
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:23 am
by disco2hse
Hi,
Welcome aboard. I saw the Woodhill video on Youtube. Looks the goods amongst them
Look forward to seeing you in the new year (pretty busy until then).
Was that the one on TradeMe?
LROCA is a good club to be in. The Harvey's and Tim Warburton are good people to get to know about how to get stuff fixed/upgraded.
Have you been graded yet? Looking at it you would probably be a Grade 2.
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:08 am
by datsta
Yes it was on TradeMe. I was initially looking for an ex-Army one with a hardtop.
Here is a short MP4 I took on a very bumpy section at Woodhill:
http://www.binary.co.nz/Woodhill-bumps.mp4
I will take it along to the next LROCA club night and see if I can get it graded.
Cheers, Doug
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:35 am
by noexitroad
very nice, we need more stage 1 owners down under. they are getting a bit rare now
few?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:42 pm
by sebking
Only 111 on the DVLA list in the UK showing as taxed...
Re: few?
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:04 pm
by 5988
sebking wrote:Only 111 on the DVLA list in the UK showing as taxed...
assuming they are correctly registered, which plenty of LR's arent
Still not that common though
