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poor restoration?

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Little-Green-Machine:
i agree why ruin a tax exempt motor for that! buy a ninety!

Saffy:
maybe otherwise it would have been left to rot/scrap and no longer be around at all *shrug* - if it should hold tax exempt status is another thing.

landmannnn:
I reckon it's disco mechanicals with a few s111 / 90 bits attached.

NiteMare:
i very much doubt that it honestly retains enough points to keep it's historic status looking at it, i'm not sure when the cutoff date came in for modifying the chassis/suspension to be able to keep it's original registration/build date...

as landrovers go, this one doesn't appeal to me, defender grille and bonnet plus alloys, it just doesn't have any identity in my eyes (a mongrel of the worst sort)

Disco Matt:
Looking at the wheels and gear selectors I think the underpinnings came from a 200TDI Disco. Bear in mind that you can't fit those alloys to a drum braked axle too, so it probably has the Disco axles, engine and gearboxes. The chassis may be original with new spring/axle/engine/gearbox mounts but something doesn't look quite right to me around the front wheel - it looks a bit too far back? It may be due to the tyres looking a bit too small - it'd look a lot better with something like 245/75 R16s to fill the arches.

However they've done it they've had to modify the chassis, so it needs an IVA. Either it's a shortened Disco one with new body mounts and rear crossmember or it's a Series chassis with welded-on mounts to handle the new running gear. It should also have extended arches - Discos have a wider track than the Series, so the bodywork won't cover the wheels properly on this.

I probably wouldn't buy it TBH, I'd prefer a proper Series to tinker with or a rough 90 to rebuild as a challenge truck. This just looks like a huge legal pothole for the unwary to fall into.

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