Me and my index finger!

[ByzMax]

So I get home from work on friday night and discuss with Mrs Byzmax about changing my motor. See I have a Scorpio Estate which uses the petrol output of a small Arab nation on a weekly basis. I do all sorts of work from welding to general buiding stuff etc. So I say what I need is a LWB landrover to carry stuff in and it needs to be a diesel cos they are more efficient.

Switch on the computer and go to a well known auction site and type LWB Landrover.

Up comes many of the said machines. but the one on the top of the list with four minutes to go is a series 3 with an LPG conversion fitted. No MOT but just needs one of the out riggers welding/replacing and a couple of other plating bits on the chassis. Good condition on the bodywork and my index finger hit the button and I got it for £500.

Just got to get it from somewhere in wales!

Chuffed!

Just need an overdrive unit for it!

[VALLEYSBOY]

nice one the conversion is prolly worth that alone

[ByzMax]

That's what I thought! Will polly pick it up next week! Can't wait!

[tazet]

That's great Byz. You will save loads with the conversion already in. 

[Manky Monkey]

Well done Byz.
Nice to see you back. Flap's just been fined 200 quid by the DVLA for having an untaxed vehicle on the road -he'd been planning to strip his Landrover down for a rebuild & hadn't gotten round to it in time. So we dismantled his fence & he drove the Landy up into his garden, where it's become a new climbing frame for his kids until he can afford the cost of the new galvanised chassis he plans to fit. After sitting, untouched at the kerbside, for 8 months, it fired up first time. Cool motors.  Have fun!
Oh, be careful though -PantherShaun lost the top of a finger while rebuilding his.

Flap's Landy

[ByzMax]

Thanks folks.

Not been away Manky just been busy and don't get much time on here at the mo. Just gathering bits for my Trike project Have engine (Yamaha 750 maxim X (20 valve watercooled jobbie) axle (MGB) front end(GPZ 750) and the most beautiful speedo that will be the basis for the whole thing(1920's brass and ally with the first patented odometer built in!.So that's been taking my time up along with family stuff and trying to complete a house build for someone as my day job!


Am very excited and will see if I can get the landy sorted for the basingstoke festival.

In the meantime. A couple of pics for you to peruse! 

[VALLEYSBOY]

where in Wales?

[ByzMax]

North of camarthen by about 20 miles

[Two Showers]

where it's become a new climbing frame for his kids until he can afford the cost of the new galvanised chassis he plans to fit.

One of the Yorkshire Trikers has a galv chassis for a landy for sale.  It was a project he started but he now needs the garage cleared so he'll be open to offers.  It's actually on the landy (new chassis-rest of landy is original) but it's not fully built up.

If you wanna try to contact him, go on www.yorkshiretrikers.co.uk and put a call out for Flash (Tony)

Just a thought.

[Manky Monkey]

Think they're about 600 quid new.