Just got a '65 IIA RHD...

[navydevildoc]

As the title says I just picked up a 1965 Series IIA 88 Right Hand Drive!

It's in pretty decent shape but I plan to do a rolling resto on it. I can't wait to start on it. I have an '05 LR3 now but have been keeping my eyes out for a Series. This one popped up local in San Diego and I jumped on it.

So just remember when I start asking the "dumb" questions that I am blond... so you all have fair warning!

[willincalgary]

Is that a depth charge

What are you holding in your picture? Looks lethal.

Welcome to the world of Series trucks!

[navydevildoc]

What are you holding in your picture? Looks lethal.

Welcome to the world of Series trucks!

That's an M829A2 Armor Piercing, Fin Stabilized, Discarding Sabot Kinetic Energy Penetrator Round.

In other words a big round fired out of M1 Abrams tanks to kill other tanks. We call it "The Big Silver Bullet"

[scott]

doc how long will ya be in socal? badvibes and our 2 64 iia's are planning a run halfway down the baja. head south on the sea side crossover and run north up the pac side.

[navydevildoc]

doc how long will ya be in socal? badvibes and our 2 64 iia's are planning a run halfway down the baja. head south on the sea side crossover and run north up the pac side.

Been here almost 9 years so far.. no plans to leave until deployment about a year from now... I love San Diego. Probably never leave.

[scott]

Been here almost 9 years so far.. no plans to leave until deployment about a year from now... I love San Diego. Probably never leave.

i'm thinking this summer. about a ten day trip starting in yuma and ending in san diego. you welcome to join us.

[4flattires]

Mexico? lately?

Scott,

Hope you have been keeping abreast of the recent developments south of the border.

Jeff

[LaneRover]

Scott,

Hope you have been keeping abreast of the recent developments south of the border.

Jeff

Staying away form Tijuana might be a good thing.

[scott]

Staying away form Tijuana might be a good thing.

trip through tj would be a quick non stop mid day thing. all border towns suck. i've been watching.

[badvibes]

Actually thinking of crossing the border from Yuma to San Luis. Avoiding big border towns completely.

navydevildoc- Welcome and thank you for your service. You and Scott have stuff in common. Besides just the Rover sickness thing.

Jeff

[thixon]

Congrats on the purchase. Don't worry about the stupid question thing. I've already asked them all, so everyone here is desensitized!

Seriously though, you won't regret the purchase. Unless you're married, and then it could go either way.

Good luck,

[Tim Smith]

Welcome and enjoy that truck.

[navydevildoc]

Seriously though, you won't regret the purchase. Unless you're married, and then it could go either way.

Somehow I have managed to stay single... comes in handy in times like these!

Of course, one of my friends has already started joking that I *did* just get married when I bought this thing.

[scott]

Somehow I have managed to stay single... comes in handy in times like these!

Of course, one of my friends has already started joking that I *did* just get married when I bought this thing.

it's a lot alike, marriage and series ownership. the longer you have 'em the more they cost and the less they do. i can say this cuz my wife doesn't read this board.

[StX_Rovers]

Somehow I have managed to stay single... comes in handy in times like these!

Of course, one of my friends has already started joking that I *did* just get married when I bought this thing.

Or you could get lucky like me and marry a woman who has her own 67 RHD 2A 88. After driving the 109 she wanted an 88 of her own:



She likes that even when there are a few potholes in our road she can get home:



She also races it in the street class at the local dragstrip:





That is our 70 Road Runner in the background.

Enjoy your new Rover, they are great fun and when you drive a LHD version you will realize that the RHD versions are definitely laid out a bit better in terms of where the starter button is, reaching the high low levers, access to teh clutch master cylindrer etc, which makes sense of course.