I bought a 110 ex RAF defender - station wagon with bench seats in the back about a week ago. So checked it over today having had it delivered yesterday. I hadn't actually seen it before today as some friends looked it over for me and then drove it down after purchase!
So it is here, looks in pretty good nick, a couple of things to sort out with the interior, mainly a couple of panels need replacing and some new floor upholstery stuff, oh and the interior roofing stuff has come away, but pretty easy fix. Then new tyres and a couple of window rubbers need replacing.
The floodlights/roof lights and rear wiper controls aren't working but my OH is into cars and is an electronics engineer so said he'd take a look Lots of fun to be had - it will be going to our fab local Landy man who will give it a good once over, but V8 engine looks great, as does body apart from the odd bit of rust.
Heritage cert says it went off to MOD Liverpool, so no idea if anyone knows where it might have lived?
So having never owned an older car or done any restoration work - even the piddling amount required by my new 110 - I have a couple of questions. From looking over it it looks as though some of the doors and the bonnet were RAF blue, but the heritage cert says it left the factory in green, and is currently green - looks as though it was resprayed a long time ago - assuming here, it has had replacement bits on it from old landys but just want to check it is supposed to be MOD green!
Also any good recommendations for new tyres - I do some off roading with my job, and deal with some terrible "roads" as well as using good roads and motorway regularly, so thinking some 50/50 tyres but any recs welcomed
The arches could do with some more gunking to protect the metal, and there are rust spots on doors, but looking at them not sure whether to source new doors or try and buff them back and then fix them up - it looks like some of the doors are replacements anyway? But again, I have no idea really! Found a couple of test stickers about which is nice (one from 93 on the boot door) and some of the locks need oiling up.
Is there anything I should be looking for in particular on a vehicle like this - I know it isn't super old, but it is perfect for what I want, even if I will have to work out how to drive with a choke! Also anywhere I might be able to get more history about it?
I will try and get some pictures up once I have given it a bit of a clean, inside and out!
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MiniZebra
I bought a 110 ex RAF defender - station wagon with bench seats in the back about a week ago. So checked it over today having had it delivered yesterday. I hadn't actually seen it before today as some friends looked it over for me and then drove it down after purchase!
So it is here, looks in pretty good nick, a couple of things to sort out with the interior, mainly a couple of panels need replacing and some new floor upholstery stuff, oh and the interior roofing stuff has come away, but pretty easy fix. Then new tyres and a couple of window rubbers need replacing.
The floodlights/roof lights and rear wiper controls aren't working but my OH is into cars and is an electronics engineer so said he'd take a look Lots of fun to be had - it will be going to our fab local Landy man who will give it a good once over, but V8 engine looks great, as does body apart from the odd bit of rust.
Heritage cert says it went off to MOD Liverpool, so no idea if anyone knows where it might have lived?
So having never owned an older car or done any restoration work - even the piddling amount required by my new 110 - I have a couple of questions. From looking over it it looks as though some of the doors and the bonnet were RAF blue, but the heritage cert says it left the factory in green, and is currently green - looks as though it was resprayed a long time ago - assuming here, it has had replacement bits on it from old landys but just want to check it is supposed to be MOD green!
Also any good recommendations for new tyres - I do some off roading with my job, and deal with some terrible "roads" as well as using good roads and motorway regularly, so thinking some 50/50 tyres but any recs welcomed
The arches could do with some more gunking to protect the metal, and there are rust spots on doors, but looking at them not sure whether to source new doors or try and buff them back and then fix them up - it looks like some of the doors are replacements anyway? But again, I have no idea really! Found a couple of test stickers about which is nice (one from 93 on the boot door) and some of the locks need oiling up.
Is there anything I should be looking for in particular on a vehicle like this - I know it isn't super old, but it is perfect for what I want, even if I will have to work out how to drive with a choke! Also anywhere I might be able to get more history about it?
I will try and get some pictures up once I have given it a bit of a clean, inside and out!
TIA
MiniZebra
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