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Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Scotty Date: October 9, 2019, 12:24 pm
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Hi my name is Paul and I have had a few Land Rovers over the
years but series are my favoured choice, my last series 2 was a
109 double cab that had only 2 owners from new but unfortunately
due to required surgery I had to sell as I was struggling to
both drive and maintain it, after surgery and full recovery I
have been looking for a series 2 for a few months now, viewed a
couple but they weren’t what I was looking for and was beginning
to wander if I was going to get one then about 3 weeks ago Paul
from this parish messaged me after seeing my search and said he
was possibly going to sell his so as to make time for his other
Land Rover
We went and viewed the Land Rover on Saturday after receiving
lots of photos and we met the owner Paul and his lovely wife and
purchased it, to say I am very happy is an understatement I am
over the moon, it is an ex RAF 1963 series 2 swb 2 1/4 petrol
hardtop,Paul has done a lot of work on it and the quality of
workmanship is excellent, I drove it home from Rugby and it
drives well, I believe it’s the furthest it’s been driven since
Paul’s ownership, it has 3.54 diffs fitted with 750 tyres and
drives well with this combination having only ever having a
fairey overdrive in the past I’m impressed with this combination
so far, it has just single lights on the wings ie indicator and
sidelight in one which are orange but someone at work today
suggested that they should be clear any thoughts on this would
be appreciated, I will try and post some pictures now cheers
Paul Tash n Barney the Lab
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Tom Date: October 9, 2019, 1:52 pm
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Hi Paul, welcome to the forum!
That's a great looking landy and I've never seen one with the
unmodified wings. As for the orange or clear light question...
if it passes MOTs and you're happy with it, i'd leave it as it
is :D
Originally it would have had a clear Lucas L488 side lamp, i
believe.
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Scotty Date: October 9, 2019, 2:29 pm
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Hi Tom cheers, lovely part of the country you’re from got family
in Swansea and I used to go to Treorchy regularly, were really
pleased with the Land Rover and hope to get out and about in it
to some events next year, thanks for the info regards the lights
👍Paul
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: birdsnest55 Date: October 9, 2019, 3:00 pm
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Welcome Paul, thats a loveley motor, I am sure I have seen it
before.
Paul
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Lo-Fi Date: October 9, 2019, 6:30 pm
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Welcome! A very tidy looking landy you have there.
I _think_ the side lights should be clear lenses but with funky
orange bulbs for the indicators (would make sense that way) but
I'm sure someone here will be able to say for sure.
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Scotty Date: October 10, 2019, 12:15 am
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Hi birdsnest55 and Lo-Fi Thank you both very much for my
welcome, haha Paul you have as you’ve been very much hands on
with this Land Rover and a fine job you have done as well, I
drove it in to work yesterday and spent my lunch hour showing
people around it, as it had attracted rather a lot of attention
in a car park of around 40 odd cars 👍 interesting
regarding the front lights I’m struggling to find what is right
and wrong but I’m not worried at the moment as I’m not driving
and needing the side/head lights on so they are just being used
as indicators,
Paul thank you for telling me about this forum as I hadn’t come
across it before and have been having a good look around and it
looks great 👍 Paul did you notice I took the overriders
off of the bumper, I’m leaving it for a bit as I’m on the fence
at the moment but Tash prefers it without them 👍Many
Thanks Paul
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Big Rich Date: October 10, 2019, 1:28 am
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There was a guy at leafers this year who had combined
sidelights/indicators that were white with the sidelights but
flashed orange with the indicators. He got them off ebay
apparently, a really smart solution.
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Scotty Date: October 10, 2019, 2:05 am
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Hi Big Rich thank you for that, i believe this set of lights
just has a single bulb with a dual filament so will look in to
the double bulb set up [emoji106] cheers Paul
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: birdsnest55 Date: October 10, 2019, 3:15 am
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Paul I was advised that you can flash white or orange lights by
my local garage. He suggested flashing orange would be his
choice. I am sure someone on here is an MOT tester can check the
rules for a 1963 vehicle.
Paul
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Re: Hi from Oxfordshire
By: Scotty Date: October 10, 2019, 4:22 am
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Hi Paul that sounds like it could be right as Im having mixed
answers some saying orange some clear, cheers Paul
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