Absolutely spot on with the ownership experience of one of these, I have an early Defender and the "bimgle-ing about at 25-40mph" is bang on - every journey is an adventure in one of these I LOVE it
A touch of the fast show about this; with the caps and the wax jackets. Liked it though! Mine doesn’t rattle apart from the o/ d lever which needs a new spring washer. A gear lever gaiter helps shut that buzz up. Totally agree on the stick to the roads that were extant when the landrover was first built. They’re not fun on d/c s let alone motorways. If it’s happy at 45 to 50 I plan routes that go along old unmodernised A roads and decent B roads. I can stop where I want, there’s always a changing view, and you go through villages and small market towns that you’d never have seen otherwise.
I’m the new owner of a 1966 S2A 88”. I found rust free original car that was still in daily use on a ranch here in central California. Series Land Rovers are fairly uncommon here in the U.S., and quite rare here in California. Most go for crazy money and still need high dollar restorations. Mine needs a little TLC, but I got lucky.
What a beauty. I just finished a complete rebuild on an Australian army 1978 2.6L, which I want to bring back to Lode Lane. You have the ideal location there and a perfect vehicle for it.
Great. I've owned my x reg Series III csw in Masai Red for the last 25 years. Love it. I have done a lot of work on it over the years, Galv chassis, unleaded 9:1 compression head, Weber Carb, Parabolic springs and poly bushes..... plus all the usual stuff. I think it will outlast me as long as they don't ban petrol vehicles. Your truck looks good.
In eastern Poland, I have engine heaters on My Unimog and tractors......The jeep wrangler is always in the barn......if the weather is really cold I would......stick a fan heater under it for an hour.
Nice video, i have owned my Series 2A for about 35 years now and it is still my dailey transport. Over the years it has evolved to keep up with the flow of normal traffic but i totally agree with you that no matter how you modify it, it is still has the charachter of an old Landrover. I miss my oil bath filter but a modern paper filter does give better filtration.
I would say the biggest drawback is the mentality of other road users. They see the Landy and need to get in front of it. I'm guessing due to there mental image of the vehicles i think truck drivers have the same problem. I normally ride at an average speed of 65-70 MPH on the motorways. This also goes for the space i leave for safe braking. Next i would say the noise inside the cab due to aerodynamics, transmission/engine and road. leg room in the cab area. Now i'm starting to feel the onset of old age the heavy steering is starting to show the weakness in my right arm due to a previous injury. Advantages are simple to maintain, Cheap to repair and run. i use it a lot for transporting things and i dont have to worry too much about damage to the body work. I find the sitting position and big steering wheel very comfortable for long distances. It does get a lot of attention mostly good. What always make me laugh is all the small children waving at it as the front looks like a face similar to cartton cars. I don't need a lot of luxury in a car so the simple features in my Series 2 are good enough.
I would just like to mention i let two young ladies enter a Rally which went from Holland to Italy and they ended up winning the best car award. This tickled me pink as the landy looks terrble. I am how ever very proud of this and don't mind shouting out about it.
Mine is a 61 109. Put a 200 and a roamerdrive in it. Transformation from the tired petrol. Had it five years nearly and it’s my fourth rover. (70 2A 54 86” and 64 P5 coop) Use it daily and just did Hereford and back(450 miles) with an overnight stay. Love it. I Find on some roads I’ll have someone come right up behind on the twister bits where 25 to 35 is the correct appropriate speed but once the road straightens out a bit and I’m underway they just disappear and I’m not driving fast.
@@talkwrenchauto Not that brave, I daily drive my S2A used and abused mongrel. A 200td makes it a bit more usable than a worn out 2.25d but driving old Landies is fun
I had a 1972 petrol series 3 with a rare Fairey capstan winch and power take off. It was 24 years old when I bought it but it was brilliant. Unstoppable. The tool kit was two spanners and two screwdrivers but that's all you needed. The downside was 17 mpg and rusty outriggers.
Thats exactly the year I got my first series1 ! an 86" there was an Austin Champ kicking around then also. Such a vehicle could not be had by youngsters today twenty years ahead of its time when it was built in 1951/52 £1500 ex works £50'000 in todays money,(google it)we bought it in 1972 for £210' Rolls Royce desighned engine,built by Austin One of a series built for the Army,all synchro box,four wheel drive,70MPH in reverse(if you had the bottle,we never tried thirty let alone seventy,anyway it was supposedly governed to fifty. I had Landrovers for the next forty years and once owned a DKW Munga,tough litlle beggar. My last Rover I had for twenty years from 1990 a series three petrol. The fastest one was a series 11a Air Portable with skimmed head and electronic ignition. I have however owned many over the years. Scotland had a lot of places you could go in those type of vehicles
@@philiprufus4427 I would have loved a Champ. They were quite cheap for a time but I never bought one. I did have one of the last series 1s, a 1958 88". It's still around somewhere, same age as me. Probably in better condition, though.
The old M J FEWS sticker in the rear window takes me back! Unfortunately they lost the dealership status a few years back now and offer Izuzu trucks. Land Rover Customers now want to arrive in a four court with fancy brick pavings and plenty of expensive glass fronted building with a fancy coffee on arrival. Back in the day when we would go up and old Mike fews would come out for a chat with farmers in wellies and old Land Rovers alongside new! All gone now! Nice little series 3 you have there and I’d love to know if you have any history on it? Like you say finding one with the original old diesel is a rare thing now, most were either swapped for petrols of tdi conversions…
Hi, thank you for watching and for your comments. I’m the owner of the Land Rover in question. As I understand, the car lived in Gloucestershire for around 30 years on a dairy farm before moving to Devon for a couple of years. I bought it back in 2018 from a local collector in an unrestored, scruffy but very original and solid state. I have since undertaken a sympathetic restoration, trying to retain as much of that originality as possible. I have catalogued some of this on our website if you are interested: www.talkwrenchauto.co.uk/post/perfectly-imperfect-patina-the-oily-rag-preservation-vs-restoration I remember reading that MJ Fews (who I believe were the original supplier), sold off some of the ex-Camel Trophy cars. I’d be interested to hear anything else you might know about them in their heyday. Many thanks Jack @TW
@@talkwrenchauto well my father had his Land rovers serviced by fews when it was just a workshops and office and then it got bigger with a nice new showroom. I’m not sure about the camel Land Rovers and the last time I was at fews was when my father picked up a second had discovery 4 which was around 2014ish, that’s when they said they’ve lost the dealership status and will be dealing pickups. Mike Fews would be quite old now and his son runs it now I believe, not as nice as old Mike from what I remember of him… The defender I have now I actually got from Mike fews as he sold a few privately from his home in Bitten, Bristol. We started chatting and I asked him if he remembered giving me and my brother 2 Land Rover T-shirts in the 80s, I said you gave them and said you can have them providing Dad has his Land Rover serviced by us! Lol. He remembered. He had a bad stroke so his face was dropped on one side which obviously stuck out as a child but he was a very nice man from memory… nicer than his mouthy ginger cousin who nearly got chucked across the yard by my father!!! Customer service wasn’t his specialty unless he was selling £60,000 range rovers!
@@PillSharks Worked in the motor trade in Scotland back in the eighties,know the type, if I had a tenner for every salesman who nearly got an engineers hammer as a present. Funny thing was some salesmen were the nicest guys you could meet. The motor trade back in the day was notorious.
Hi friends. I am a new owner of the series 3 short chassis diesel fuel. How can I maintain my car to remain in its origin? Many people changed from diesel to petrol fuel due to the disturbance of of the diesel ⛽️
Nice Land Rover👍 i've got a series diesel 88 as well. There is a short video on my Channel. I fitted an overdrive and that really helped reduce noise and you can drive 60 m/h without a problem.
@@oilstovesandmore Hi, I’m the owner. Thanks for your comments. This is also the 5 bearing engine, much stronger than the 3 bearing motor and I think underrated as it generates so much torque. Overdrive is something I may think about fitting in the future.
@@jackparrott9037 hi! Absolutely true! The torque is really good for these type of engines. I pulled a tandem trailer with mine last week to the dump and the combined weight was 4160 kg on the scale. No problem at all. I have double cilinder 109 front brakes. I only use the overdrive without a trailer. The overdive drops the rpm by about 28% Cheers!
Another Good Series 3 109 Diesel Land Rover Car with a Non Turbo Diesel Engine or a TDI Diesel Engine or a 2.25 Diesel Engine in I’d definitely own 2 Series 3 109 Diesel Land Rover Cars as Well as all my Range Rover Cars I’d own as well
Great video, felt like visiting a Series owner.
Absolutely spot on with the ownership experience of one of these, I have an early Defender and the "bimgle-ing about at 25-40mph" is bang on - every journey is an adventure in one of these
I LOVE it
A touch of the fast show about this; with the caps and the wax jackets. Liked it though! Mine doesn’t rattle apart from the o/ d lever which needs a new spring washer. A gear lever gaiter helps shut that buzz up.
Totally agree on the stick to the roads that were extant when the landrover was first built. They’re not fun on d/c s let alone motorways. If it’s happy at 45 to 50 I plan routes that go along old unmodernised A roads and decent B roads. I can stop where I want, there’s always a changing view, and you go through villages and small market towns that you’d never have seen otherwise.
lol yea was half expecting an appearance from TED😀
@@TheRetroSeries2a Ted was sorting the drainage in the lower field...
Like two boys borrowing dad's clothes for 'dress up'.
I’m the new owner of a 1966 S2A 88”. I found rust free original car that was still in daily use on a ranch here in central California.
Series Land Rovers are fairly uncommon here in the U.S., and quite rare here in California. Most go for crazy money and still need high dollar restorations.
Mine needs a little TLC, but I got lucky.
What a beauty. I just finished a complete rebuild on an Australian army 1978 2.6L, which I want to bring back to Lode Lane. You have the ideal location there and a perfect vehicle for it.
I have a 1973 Series III 88, marine blue with a half cab. I am the original owner, it just turned 77k miles in Oct. 2023. I'm in the USA.
my faourite model of land rover and favourite colour too!
Looks awesome 👏
Mine is S3 88” 1972.
Driving past 16 years now.
You must be very familiar with your car by now! Do you favour an original LR, or a modified one?
@@talkwrenchauto I like original LR.
Great. I've owned my x reg Series III csw in Masai Red for the last 25 years. Love it. I have done a lot of work on it over the years, Galv chassis, unleaded 9:1 compression head, Weber Carb, Parabolic springs and poly bushes..... plus all the usual stuff. I think it will outlast me as long as they don't ban petrol vehicles. Your truck looks good.
Thanks for your comment, sounds like you've got a brilliant truck. Do you use it regularly?
@@talkwrenchauto yes it’s my daily driver, but I only do short journeys
CSW in Masai red is a great spec. Probably my favourite variant and colour for a Series 3.
In eastern Poland, I have engine heaters on My Unimog and tractors......The jeep wrangler is always in the barn......if the weather is really cold I would......stick a fan heater under it for an hour.
Nice wee Land Rover I think it was the best colour, I have the russet brown county version 1984 series 3 petrol 7 seater
Well done. Lovely video and scenery
Nice video, i have owned my Series 2A for about 35 years now and it is still my dailey transport. Over the years it has evolved to keep up with the flow of normal traffic but i totally agree with you that no matter how you modify it, it is still has the charachter of an old Landrover. I miss my oil bath filter but a modern paper filter does give better filtration.
Thanks for your comment! Daily driving a Series is brave. What would you say the biggest drawbacks/advantages are?
I would say the biggest drawback is the mentality of other road users. They see the Landy and need to get in front of it. I'm guessing due to there mental image of the vehicles i think truck drivers have the same problem. I normally ride at an average speed of 65-70 MPH on the motorways. This also goes for the space i leave for safe braking.
Next i would say the noise inside the cab due to aerodynamics, transmission/engine and road. leg room in the cab area.
Now i'm starting to feel the onset of old age the heavy steering is starting to show the weakness in my right arm due to a previous injury.
Advantages are simple to maintain, Cheap to repair and run. i use it a lot for transporting things and i dont have to worry too much about damage to the body work. I find the sitting position and big steering wheel very comfortable for long distances. It does get a lot of attention mostly good. What always make me laugh is all the small children waving at it as the front looks like a face similar to cartton cars.
I don't need a lot of luxury in a car so the simple features in my Series 2 are good enough.
I would just like to mention i let two young ladies enter a Rally which went from Holland to Italy and they ended up winning the best car award.
This tickled me pink as the landy looks terrble. I am how ever very proud of this and don't mind shouting out about it.
Mine is a 61 109. Put a 200 and a roamerdrive in it. Transformation from the tired petrol. Had it five years nearly and it’s my fourth rover. (70 2A 54 86” and 64 P5 coop)
Use it daily and just did Hereford and back(450 miles) with an overnight stay. Love it.
I Find on some roads I’ll have someone come right up behind on the twister bits where 25 to 35 is the correct appropriate speed but once the road straightens out a bit and I’m underway they just disappear and I’m not driving fast.
@@talkwrenchauto Not that brave, I daily drive my S2A used and abused mongrel. A 200td makes it a bit more usable than a worn out 2.25d but driving old Landies is fun
♥️ Landy!
great video guys, some nice insights
Thanks Paul, appreciate the feedback 😃
I used to get up to 90mph with my series 2 and it would do around 25mpg. It did vibrate at high speeds though.The speed was past the needle.
pretty landy
i have series 2a 109
I had a 1972 petrol series 3 with a rare Fairey capstan winch and power take off. It was 24 years old when I bought it but it was brilliant. Unstoppable. The tool kit was two spanners and two screwdrivers but that's all you needed. The downside was 17 mpg and rusty outriggers.
Thats exactly the year I got my first series1 ! an 86" there was an Austin Champ kicking around then also. Such a vehicle could not be had by youngsters today twenty years ahead of its time when it was built in 1951/52 £1500 ex works £50'000
in todays money,(google it)we bought it in 1972 for £210' Rolls Royce desighned engine,built by Austin One of a series built for the Army,all synchro box,four wheel drive,70MPH in reverse(if you had the bottle,we never tried thirty let alone seventy,anyway it was supposedly governed to fifty. I had Landrovers for the next forty years and once owned a DKW Munga,tough litlle beggar. My last Rover I had for twenty years from 1990 a series three petrol. The fastest one was a series 11a Air Portable with skimmed head and electronic ignition. I have however owned many over the years. Scotland had a lot of places you could go in those type of vehicles
@@philiprufus4427 I would have loved a Champ. They were quite cheap for a time but I never bought one. I did have one of the last series 1s, a 1958 88". It's still around somewhere, same age as me. Probably in better condition, though.
40 mpg? headlining? You don't know you're born.
The old M J FEWS sticker in the rear window takes me back! Unfortunately they lost the dealership status a few years back now and offer Izuzu trucks. Land Rover Customers now want to arrive in a four court with fancy brick pavings and plenty of expensive glass fronted building with a fancy coffee on arrival.
Back in the day when we would go up and old Mike fews would come out for a chat with farmers in wellies and old Land Rovers alongside new! All gone now! Nice little series 3 you have there and I’d love to know if you have any history on it? Like you say finding one with the original old diesel is a rare thing now, most were either swapped for petrols of tdi conversions…
Hi, thank you for watching and for your comments.
I’m the owner of the Land Rover in question. As I understand, the car lived in Gloucestershire for around 30 years on a dairy farm before moving to Devon for a couple of years. I bought it back in 2018 from a local collector in an unrestored, scruffy but very original and solid state. I have since undertaken a sympathetic restoration, trying to retain as much of that originality as possible. I have catalogued some of this on our website if you are interested:
www.talkwrenchauto.co.uk/post/perfectly-imperfect-patina-the-oily-rag-preservation-vs-restoration
I remember reading that MJ Fews (who I believe were the original supplier), sold off some of the ex-Camel Trophy cars. I’d be interested to hear anything else you might know about them in their heyday.
Many thanks
Jack @TW
@@talkwrenchauto well my father had his Land rovers serviced by fews when it was just a workshops and office and then it got bigger with a nice new showroom. I’m not sure about the camel Land Rovers and the last time I was at fews was when my father picked up a second had discovery 4 which was around 2014ish, that’s when they said they’ve lost the dealership status and will be dealing pickups.
Mike Fews would be quite old now and his son runs it now I believe, not as nice as old Mike from what I remember of him… The defender I have now I actually got from Mike fews as he sold a few privately from his home in Bitten, Bristol. We started chatting and I asked him if he remembered giving me and my brother 2 Land Rover T-shirts in the 80s, I said you gave them and said you can have them providing Dad has his Land Rover serviced by us! Lol. He remembered.
He had a bad stroke so his face was dropped on one side which obviously stuck out as a child but he was a very nice man from memory… nicer than his mouthy ginger cousin who nearly got chucked across the yard by my father!!! Customer service wasn’t his specialty unless he was selling £60,000 range rovers!
@@PillSharks Worked in the motor trade in Scotland back in the eighties,know the type, if I had a tenner for every salesman who nearly got an engineers hammer as a present. Funny thing was some salesmen were the nicest guys you could meet. The motor trade back in the day was notorious.
great vid guys😀
Hi friends. I am a new owner of the series 3 short chassis diesel fuel. How can I maintain my car to remain in its origin? Many people changed from diesel to petrol fuel due to the disturbance of of the diesel ⛽️
Nice Land Rover👍 i've got a series diesel 88 as well. There is a short video on my Channel. I fitted an overdrive and that really helped reduce noise and you can drive 60 m/h without a problem.
I swapped my 3 main bearing diesel for a 5 main bearing 2.25 diesel from a 1981 88"
I'm from Holland
@@oilstovesandmore Hi, I’m the owner. Thanks for your comments. This is also the 5 bearing engine, much stronger than the 3 bearing motor and I think underrated as it generates so much torque. Overdrive is something I may think about fitting in the future.
@@jackparrott9037 hi!
Absolutely true! The torque is really good for these type of engines. I pulled a tandem trailer with mine last week to the dump and the combined weight was 4160 kg on the scale. No problem at all. I have double cilinder 109 front brakes. I only use the overdrive without a trailer. The overdive drops the rpm by about 28%
Cheers!
@@oilstovesandmore Most 11a's or 111 series LWB have two leading shoes on the front axle,my X Plated SWB had them also. (double cylinders)
Hi, does anyone know if the radio is genuine and if so what is the brand? Thank you.
Hi Nicolas 👋 The radio is a Blaupunkt Hamburg
@@talkwrenchauto thank you so much! Is it the same model sold originally with the car?
@@nicolash1675 Indeed it is, although this particular radio came out of a Mercedes R107 😁
@@talkwrenchauto many thanks for this quick response. I’ve been looking for the model to put in my S3 for a long time.
Old Shropshire registration number. What part of the country has it ended up in now?
I had a lwb 1981series 3 with an added V8 mated to the original gearbox. Fantastic takeoff and awful fuel economy. Twin carburettors.
Maybe you should buy a new lense for your camera. One that doesn't struggle so hard with the auto focus...
Ya I brought one new 1973 from Fauls in Subi imported from the UK hard top SWB 4 cyl $ 3500 in Perth
Another Good Series 3 109 Diesel Land Rover Car with a Non Turbo Diesel Engine or a TDI Diesel Engine or a 2.25 Diesel Engine in I’d definitely own 2 Series 3 109 Diesel Land Rover Cars as Well as all my Range Rover Cars I’d own as well
Diesel 66BHP Petrol 88BHP if I remenber correctly
I’d own All My Range Rover’s Diesel TDI Turbo Diesel Cars Etc
And that's where they should stay, on the farm as an agricultural vehicle not on the roads.