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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Cobra on September 10, 2011, 01:30:23 am

Title: So Excited
Post by: Cobra on September 10, 2011, 01:30:23 am
 Tommorow Im picking up my 1975 Series 3 Landrover. Wahhoooo :love: :love:

Sorry  :-[ :-[ Couldnt contain myself any longer  ::)  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: So Excited
Post by: SallyintNorth on September 10, 2011, 01:35:05 am
Well done!  Shall you name it?
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Post by: Crofter on September 10, 2011, 08:03:47 am
He'll need to check out it's personality before it gets a name ;)
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Post by: suziequeue on September 10, 2011, 08:06:59 am
Oh Cobra - you and my husband would get on great!!!!

I thought he was the only one  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Rosemary on September 10, 2011, 09:10:51 am
 ;D ;D ;D Enjoy! Ours was called Kenny.
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Post by: jaykay on September 10, 2011, 09:15:47 am
 ;D Very nice - we will need photos of him/her too  :D
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Post by: Sandy on September 10, 2011, 03:49:22 pm
Something I would LOVE, enjoy it and can see why you would be excited, I would rather one of them than a Lamborghini... ::)maybe I could see one of them tough and get a Landy and loads of new wellies with the proceeds,  Oh well....one day maybe!!!
Title: Re: So Excited
Post by: Fleecewife on September 10, 2011, 04:40:51 pm
Great choice Cobra  ;D.  Ours are Skip and Gus, and my 1952 Series 1 80" is Kiwi (she came from NZ).  Gus is waiting to either melt into the landscape or be done up if we get rich, but we use the other two all the time for everything.  You even get used to the wild and self-willed steering eventually  :o :D
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Post by: ser3dan on September 10, 2011, 05:23:06 pm
Hooray! Another owner! I have a 1974 I'm just about to paint before putting it back together. Galvanised chassis, parabolic springs, gas shocks, galvanised bulkhead I built myself - it'll be like a new one when it's finished, only better.  :D
Enjoy owning yours, they're fab and I can't imagine a life without at least one LR product in it now! lol
Title: Re: So Excited
Post by: Cobra on September 11, 2011, 12:21:48 am
Well done!  Shall you name it?
Oh yes. Arguments have already started on this one. Reg is MYB so I thought Maybel or Mertal, but er in doors says why does it have to be a women? Now she has a point but its just got more confusing lol.
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Post by: Sandy on September 11, 2011, 12:23:18 am
Sounds like MY Beast!!
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Post by: Cobra on September 11, 2011, 12:39:10 am
Wow so many landy fans  :thumbsup: Oh  :o and a series 1 :love: :love:

Him or Her, still out on this one has arrived  ;D ;D Quite bizarre as most of the street decided to have a look  :D most of them had tales of past landrovers, that says something doesn’t it.

Well Series 3, 1975 in Grey Shabby Chiq  ;) 24k warranteed and guaranteed mileage, was in a barn for some years until it was pulled out in 1988. The great thing is that its virtually all original from the factory other than two headlights and a petrol tank fitted in 2007, all paperwork a complete history. I am chuffed as old boots. My other half and daughter have spent al; afternoon either sat in it or routing round it they are totally in love and honestly that surprises me as I would not of thought she would be interested.

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/UK-Cobra/Landrover/Landy1Medium.jpg)

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/UK-Cobra/Landrover/Landy2Medium.jpg)

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/UK-Cobra/Landrover/Landy3Medium.jpg)

(http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg295/UK-Cobra/Landrover/Landy6Medium.jpg)
Title: Re: So Excited
Post by: Rich/Jan on September 11, 2011, 07:52:32 am
Hi - I use mine around the farm to take animal feed etc.  Not road worthy now but still very useful to me.  Always had landys - love 'em.  Love working on them as well.   Rich
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Post by: Cinderhills on September 11, 2011, 08:00:38 am
Nice motor.  We got our first one earlier this year and love it.  Can't wait for winter on those roads now!  :)
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Post by: Sandy on September 11, 2011, 03:43:51 pm
I would love that!! Have said on here before..if I ever came into a big wod of £, I would buy one like that and put every conceivable gadget and comfort inside and a huge big engine, so I could cruise off in my tank and put 2 fingers up to the poser cars!!!!!!!!!!  I only have a short lists of wants as I am happy but thats on it!!!
Title: Re: So Excited
Post by: Rosemary on September 11, 2011, 05:10:28 pm
In some ways I loved our Series 2 - certainly, no-one cut us up at roundabouts. On the other hand, power steering was linked directly to the driver's biceps; intermittent wipe meant turning it on and off and I NEVER found 2nd gear. And it was sooooo cold in the winter.

Mind you, we have a Nissan X trail now, which does the job but I can't imagine ever getting excited enough about it to give it a name  ;D