I am a newbie, although I have posted on here before, I have never figured out how to post my photos. So here it goes. This is my 1969 Series IIa that I bought from ECR last winter. They had rebuilt it in '98 with a coil spring suspension, new Turner 2.25 petrol, 5 speed transmission and ARB Lockers front and back. See their link on it at:
http://www.eastcoastrover.com/Lmaid88coil.html
So I finally got it to Wisconsin and then got a hard top on it for fall and winter from Marc Waitek at Singing Camel out here in the Middle West. I have since replaced the ECR roll bar with a four post powder coated model and installed a forward facing rear seat, a Pangolin rear receiver hitch, a rear trouble light, headlight guards and put the spare up on the bonnet. I still need to get the hard top repainted to all Limestone and add the alpine windows sometime. I also plan to install rockers on the sides. I run it with a soft top in the summer time and am thinking of replacing it sometime. I call it my mantoy and my college daughter really likes it, so that's cool. One thing really neat is the great people I have now come in contact through this board and I am helping to stimulate the economy single handedly by re-distributing my wealth with Rovers North, Singing Camel, Pangolin, and the most to ECR.
A little history here, I have wanted a Land Rover since I first became aquainted with them at eight years old as a matchbox car in my collection. That and Daktari and Cowboy in Africa made the Land Rover was to be for me. I could dream of lashing down all the gear and going on safari in it. A guy down the street from our house when I was about 11 or 12, had a red Series IIa, I think, and I would always covet that truck as it would pass by. Then later, I hunted in Africa with my father and grandfather at 15 and rode in Land Rovers and Land Cruisers. I rode on the spare on the hood of an 88 spotting game. And I actually got to drive one over there. It was a dream for me. In Africa, when I was there, they called the Land Rover on the hunt the Shooting Car, thus is why I have it as my line. But it took me 40 years to finally get one. Oh, I tried suppressing the dream with a '53 Ford Pickup, an S10 Blazer, two Isuzu Troopers, and an Explorer, but it was never done till I finally got this faded pastel green 88 delivered to my house last summer. It is way more truck than I am capable of needing, but I am sure glad I got it. I have only seen maybe three other series trucks up here in Wisconsin so it is a pretty rare truck up here. And now, I get the nod from other men on the road. Even bikers and we have a log of Harley bikers up here. The nod is that of approval of: wow what a cool truck. I told my wife about this and she just laughed. She didn't get it. I have never gotten a nod of being cool. They say that "value is all things real or perceived in the purchase of a good or service". This is real value for me.
Anyway thanks for letting us newbies follow your tail lights.
I hope this photo posting works.
Jeff
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