Might as well start a thread for this, even though it's early days.
I built this restomod 2 door '75 Rangie 12 years ago and it has been in use ever since as my tow vehicle. (Nissan running gear) Has not missed a beat! Only thing I have changed in 12 years is the battery , tyres, oil, wiper blades and the rear silencer.
I felt like I needed something more unreliable in my life, and full of rust so I stupidly bought this 4 door.
Its an early one so it still has the modular design of the original 2 door, just modified sides. Early Rangies have bolt-together bulkhead, floor, inner wings, roof, rear frame. This brilliant design all came to an end shortly after the 4 door was introduced, in 1985 when the shell became a more conventional fully welded affair.
Car was sat in a driveway in Wales since 1996 and is rotted out in all the usual spots. I didn't actually get it from Wales, I got it in Nuneaton, from someone who bought it from Wales then took the interior out of it for their car. Plan is to get it running and driving and replace the tyres and brakes, just as I hate cars that don't move. It will then probably get tucked away in a barn somewhere until I have cleared a backlog of other rusty old car projects, but at least it now has a future and I will gather missing parts for it in the mean time. I paid too much for it and it has parts missing / vandalised / incorrect but.. I've restored worse.
Due to most of the exterior being aluminium, Range Rovers have the annoying habit of looking rust-free, when in reality they inevitably have the 'Flintstones' floor and air-cooled A-pillars.
Original tailgate (steel) is barely even still attached and has an aluminium plate rivetted to it, luckly I found a somewhat better tailgate locally yesterday, and discovered another Land Rover enthusiast in the process, win win.
I built this restomod 2 door '75 Rangie 12 years ago and it has been in use ever since as my tow vehicle. (Nissan running gear) Has not missed a beat! Only thing I have changed in 12 years is the battery , tyres, oil, wiper blades and the rear silencer.
I felt like I needed something more unreliable in my life, and full of rust so I stupidly bought this 4 door.
Its an early one so it still has the modular design of the original 2 door, just modified sides. Early Rangies have bolt-together bulkhead, floor, inner wings, roof, rear frame. This brilliant design all came to an end shortly after the 4 door was introduced, in 1985 when the shell became a more conventional fully welded affair.
Car was sat in a driveway in Wales since 1996 and is rotted out in all the usual spots. I didn't actually get it from Wales, I got it in Nuneaton, from someone who bought it from Wales then took the interior out of it for their car. Plan is to get it running and driving and replace the tyres and brakes, just as I hate cars that don't move. It will then probably get tucked away in a barn somewhere until I have cleared a backlog of other rusty old car projects, but at least it now has a future and I will gather missing parts for it in the mean time. I paid too much for it and it has parts missing / vandalised / incorrect but.. I've restored worse.
Due to most of the exterior being aluminium, Range Rovers have the annoying habit of looking rust-free, when in reality they inevitably have the 'Flintstones' floor and air-cooled A-pillars. Original tailgate (steel) is barely even still attached and has an aluminium plate rivetted to it, luckly I found a somewhat better tailgate locally yesterday, and discovered another Land Rover enthusiast in the process, win win.
