The Dark Wob

This was another minter on a galvanised chassis but has been mucked about with a lot by all accounts. The owner reckoned it was 1968 I think he said but why does it have all the attributes of a Series III?

Interestingly DVLA has it as a 1960! My limited knowledge of Series LRs leads me to believe it would be hugely expensive to modify a pre-Series III to look exactly like a Series III......

Wonder what the motivation is for messing about with history to such extent - many Series IIIs will be MOT exempt themselves by now if that matters.

mercrocker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:07 pm Interestingly DVLA has it as a 1960! My limited knowledge of Series LRs leads me to believe it would be hugely expensive to modify a pre-Series III to look exactly like a Series III......

Wonder what the motivation is for messing about with history to such extent - many Series IIIs will be MOT exempt themselves by now if that matters.

My poor memory then. It probably had it's history messed with when the 40 year thing wasn't rolling. I planned to do the same with mine in a bout 1992 ish. I bought the tax exempt chassis with ID but I ended up selling it all for peanuts when my old man lost the house and I had nowhere to work on it. As the Geordie Mario discovered a while back somehow it still lives on in essence under it's original Reg too! The chassis was completely fucked by then and amazing one side hadn't snapped completely.

A quick squizz inside and it looks just like my Series III did going by the Hi and Low range controls but it was lacking the PTO throttle mine had on the bulkhead. That was always interesting* when some pissed up farmer passenger kicked it all the way over to the right It was on a ratchet and attached directly to the accelerator peddle via a metal rod, hence being impossible to hook the pedal back up with your foot You had to dive down below the dash and shove it back all the way to the left while the idiots pissed themselves laughing

mercrocker wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:07 pm Wonder what the motivation is for messing about with history to such extent

Money and dodgy bastards?

"Dateless" plate was issued in 2004 so presumably it was built / "returned to the road" according to the regs that prevailed then.

Gran Canaria..

Very tidy. 300d obviously.

My 280E was that colour. Lovely old things.

Hi and dry version of Mitsubishi

T-Roc ragtop...err....why...