Land Rovers waiting to be rescued - the hunt is on - post photos

[stonefox]

Nice rescue! How far gone are they?

The blue 109 is workable.Good steel,except rear X member.The others are pretty rough ,but all offer up something. I'm hope to use the safari top off the IIa 88. It may need a new top skin. Anybody have one they want to trade for or sell. The one 88 has a drop tail gate that does not have a "factory'' crease in it caused by the hitch.I think thats the rarest score of the lot.Two of the trucks also have ash trays in them that I had never seen before.Wouldn't you know it there was a 30 yr. old "roach " in one .
The lot also came with 3 boxes of genuine spares from our host bought 20+ years ago with their receipts amazing to see the price differences.

[azfast1]

1970 Series 2A 88

Here is one I just rescued from a garage in Arizona, last registered in 1977, great body, zero rust, transmission out in a box., ,,

[czenkov]

Here is one I just rescued from a garage in Arizona, last registered in 1977, great body, zero rust, transmission out in a box., ,,

Great patina! Good find.

[mrdoiron]

Here is one I just rescued from a garage in Arizona, last registered in 1977, great body, zero rust, transmission out in a box., ,,

and my wife complains that our garage is tight... thanks, this will help with the argument !

mike

[azfast1]

here is a different photo showing the garage the 70 type 2A was buried in, there were 3 more rooms like this! You can see the L/Rover in the back if you look hard

[mrdoiron]

here is a different photo showing the garage the 70 type 2A was buried in, there were 3 more rooms like this! You can see the L/Rover in the back if you look hard

wow, get a good deal I hope.

[Skookumchuck]

lots of Rovers

A guy in BC has these for sale Wish I had some more money.

[nathanwind]

I've heard about a derelict Rover right around the corner from me from a couple of my friends over the years, but I've never been able to find it....UNTIL YESTERDAY! Spotted it in the woods on the way to go skiing totally out of the blue, and pulled off the side of the road to investigate. The ironic part is that it it turned out to be the same exact year/color as my 88.

There's an old Army jeep parked right next to it too...

[PavementEnds]

Bring a trailer...

and a RT ticket and shipping container if you want to bring it home. Location: 37 P 218740 1413726

[mongoswede]

I've heard about a derelict Rover right around the corner from me from a couple of my friends over the years, but I've never been able to find it....UNTIL YESTERDAY! Spotted it in the woods on the way to go skiing totally out of the blue, and pulled off the side of the road to investigate. The ironic part is that it it turned out to be the same exact year/color as my 88.

There's an old Army jeep parked right next to it too...

yep, thats the one just outside of Lake George NY. Its been sitting there for a long time and only became visible when they did the road expansion there. There was an old jeep next to it for a while. I looked at this rover one day after being told about it....its hard to find when not looking for it. It looked to be like every single window had been broken out of it and doubtfull it was worth much for spare parts. If you could tow it out for free you might get a few odds and ends off it. I didn't see anything exciting like a winch or salisbury...but didnt look to see if it had an OD or something along those lines.

[mongoswede]

A guy in BC has these for sale Wish I had some more money.

Is that the lot thats for sale under the condition that you have to take all of them at once and he wants like $10,000 for the lot? That 109 2 door on the far left looks enticing.

[nathanwind]

yep, thats the one just outside of Lake George NY. Its been sitting there for a long time and only became visible when they did the road expansion there. There was an old jeep next to it for a while. I looked at this rover one day after being told about it....its hard to find when not looking for it. It looked to be like every single window had been broken out of it and doubtfull it was worth much for spare parts. If you could tow it out for free you might get a few odds and ends off it. I didn't see anything exciting like a winch or salisbury...but didnt look to see if it had an OD or something along those lines.

That's the one! The jeep still is there too (attached). I didn't even think about it, but you're right they just did that road expansion which makes it closer to the road...I wondered why I had never seen it after all these years (my Rover Radar is pretty good). It was hard to tell in the snow, but likewise didn't see much of value on the Rover (though it was hard to tell in the snow) - and yes, many of the back/side windows were smashed.

The Rover chassis had rusted away so badly that the leaf spring mounts were right off the chassis...I doubt you'd even be able to roll that thing out of there.

[mongoswede]

that jeep looked like it had more value than the rover as it looked like an oddball model.

[nathanwind]

Doubling up on my posts, realized I had some other pics of a couple of Series III's from a friends farm in WV. He's got quite the collection, both inside and out...gathering dust (rust) in addition to the Rovers are a couple of Volvo 1800's, of which I own a few as well.

If anyone in WV is interested in rescuing these let me know...not sure if he'd every part with them, but I'd sure like to try for someone that had the time.

[leafsprung]

jeep is m422 mighty mite, very cool