Show us your Series

[Tim Smith]

I think Thompson just taught us how to swear on the forum.

[Summer'69]

My old girl!!

Well, her's my old girl. A 1969 Seies 2A Airportable. Not exactly OE but each to his own

Unfortunately though she doesn't look quite as good at the moment. Got some smoke damage due to a vehicle fire in the garage/shed. Nothing drastic to my Land Rover but the Jag was a write off

What do you guys think honestly?


By pbi, shot with KODAK EASYSHARE M753 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA at 2008-06-26

[SafeAirOne]

What do you guys think honestly?

A bit shinier than I prefer in an airportable, but I wouldn't refuse it if you were to give it to me!

I hope the Jag was a new one, not an old XKE or something similar...

[greenmeanie]

As the name suggests I am really a fan of the cabbage and black look. Having said that I like it in red too. About the only thing I would change is the front bumper - it looks odd to my eye in body colour but then, as you say, each to his own. It is still a nice truck.

[VTRover]

NTKTRED

NTKTRED. 1961 Series IIA

[Summer'69]

A bit shinier than I prefer in an airportable, but I wouldn't refuse it if you were to give it to me!

I hope the Jag was a new one, not an old XKE or something similar...

I have another, or rather my sister has another at my place, i'm renovating it for her, she's all in the proper olive green. I saw too many in that colour at my previous place of business so wanted something at the time that definately could not be mistaken for being "Army", especially over here in Northern Ireland Had enough of playing around in "can't see me suits myself".

As for the Jag, it was a '93 XJ6 3.2S in BRG. Problem was it was in fantastic condition and a hell of a shame. As for the new ones, I don't really like 'em about the only new Jag/Daimler i'd have gone for was the X350 Daimler Super 8, that or the now older Aston Martin DB9 or Vanquish, gorgeous cars But, the prettiest Jag has to be the E-Type, there is no prettier car. If only I had the money to buy, even a wreck is astronomical and rare as hens teeth!!

Anyway, back to the topic. Well she's just the standard 2286 petrol (don't like diesel even at 89.9p per litre here. She's tax free and costs a whopping £120 fully comp to insure for me, can't argue with that. I've got a load of conversions and upgrades in mind for her. She'll definately not be standard. In truth, she was destined to be as she started life as basically a log book, 3/4 of a chassis and the lower bulkhead. My old man told me if I could scrape the parts together to make her I could have it!! So, I did, raided the sheds and found most of what I needed.

[Bostonian1976]

NTKTRED. 1961 Series IIA

someone needs to buy you a top for that thing since all winter pictures (xmas tree, etc) are topless....

[Drain Rovers2]

There's one on rovers north on clerance!

http://www.roversnorth.com/store/p-16192-series-88-roof-assembly.aspx

Only $275!!!!

[ShootingCar]

The Shooting Car

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

[TSR53]

Nice Land Rover Jeff! Yes, your photo posting worked great too

[ShootingCar]

Photo sizing and posting

Thompson,
what threw me was your term of copy image link. I was trying to find that command and finally just went to copy and it worked. But I am still messed up with the sizing as you can see my photos are different sizes and when I tried to add more photos they started to overlap of cover each other. Is there a proper size that I should resize to? And is there a way to add more photos to a posting here i.e. are you supposed to paste at a certain spot on the post in relation to the photos to allow it to expand for more photos?

thanks,
Jeff

[TCapelle]

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

Hey Jeff
A fellow midewest roverdude here- I have 3 old series vehicles. I recently also purchased a white carawagon 109 from Marc and his broher down at singing camel. I plan to use the carawagon top for my 67 NADA #2 "continental" conversion. The rest of the truck I hope to use as my farm truck or maybe a complete hybrid project???

Anyways- I am one of those WI rover guys as well... I am planning on taking my NADA wagon up to Suring Wi (about 1 hour from GB)for maple syrup season in a few weeks....

Maybe I'll run into you of these days....

You gotta get the GB sticker- it serves 2 purpsoes- Great Britian and more importantly Green Bay!
welcome and keep rovering in cheeseland!
-Tim

[ShootingCar]

Badger Rovers

Tim,
I saw that Carawagon that Marc had at his shop when I went down to Rover Camp last September to get my hard top. It's nice to see some other Wisc. Rovers. I know that IIa Lightweight and LH Drive are down in Milwaukee area. I have conversed with them. We could resurect the Badger Rover Club.
I work with a Jay Capelle here in Wisc. Rapids. Any relation?

Jeff

[TSR53]

Thompson,
what threw me was your term of copy image link. I was trying to find that command and finally just went to copy and it worked. But I am still messed up with the sizing as you can see my photos are different sizes and when I tried to add more photos they started to overlap of cover each other. Is there a proper size that I should resize to? And is there a way to add more photos to a posting here i.e. are you supposed to paste at a certain spot on the post in relation to the photos to allow it to expand for more photos?

thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff, I think your photo sizing is good. The 1024 x 768 blows out the side of the forum, but is a nice size - bigger is better as you can see more details. Up to 800px wide should be good to go for max width.

You can post your photos in any location relative to what you are trying to say. Sometimes I post the wording, then the photo. If you linked in your post 10 photos, they would all show up. I think you are good to go.

[BGGB]

hey summer69 what do you have on your rear axle, is that a selectable diff lock, if so what brand is it and are you happy with it. i was considering a diff lock but can't really justify a arb or anything like that at the moment