Both of my Rovers have their original frames. I suppose I just like saving things, but steel isn't that hard to work with. On my 88" I cut out the entire lower half of the square tube on both sides half way down the chassis. The other three sides of the chassis tube were solid. Then I welded in a strip of 3" wide x .125" plate all the way back in to complete the tube repair. I had a tremendous amount of weld time in the chassis, but anything with a square tube design is fairly simple to repair. After galvanizing, it was as new (and a heck of a lot cheaper + it's original).
61 II 109" Pickup (Restomod, 350 small block, TR4050)
66 IIA 88" Station Wagon (sold)
66 IIA 109" Pickup (Restomod, 5MGE, R380)
67 IIA 109" NADA Wagon (sold)
88, 2.5TD 110 RHD non-hicap pickup
-I used to know everything there was to know about Land Rovers; then I joined the RN Bulletin Board.