My brother and me bought 2 cars off ebay, one was this long wheel base one and a completely knackered 410. The deal was buy one and you must take the other.
200 miles later I had the LWB in my garage and my brother had the 410 in his. We sold the 410 for a good amount and it worked out that the LWB was about £20.
We know how rare these LWB modelas are so we were going to put it back on the road perfect making a nice profit. After 6 months we never wanted to even touch it, we all want money but all our previous cars have been built out of passion not profit.
I ended up haggling my brother in to selling the car to me for the tidy some of £75 - I was ripped off!!!!
The body work was shot, the back bumper was held on with wood screws, and it had never been serviced since 1997.
I started poking holes in the body and it did not get to solid metal for a few weeks. I replaced one sill with 80x80 box section.
Work carried out so far:
- Original front bumper replaced with tubular design
- Rear bumper ripped off.
- Land rover sidelights and indicators.
- HGV rear lights.
- Full service including all oils changed.
- Head gasket and head skimmed.
- New timing belt.
- New fan belt
- Replacement radiator.
- Replacement battery.
- Extened front shockers
- D-flex fitted to front.
- Extened brake hoses all round.
- New brake shoes to rear.
- New Greenway Atacama Sport tyres on Grand vitara rims (205R16)
- Rotten sill cut out and replaced with box section.
- Replacment wash jets in bonnet.
- Toyota Celica Seats fitted (2003 model)
- 4x 1ft LED strip lights added using Ikea lighting without the transformer.
