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Wouldn't be doing much mileage at all, part of the reason for ideally picking up a lower mileage more original one. I would feel a bit bad about driving something so environmentally damaging on the face of it, but I partly want one to go on camping trips and so on in Britain as part of my campaign to persuade the other half holidays don't have to be forrin, and I'm sure a return trip for two, even in a landy, must produce less C02 than flights. Plus something 40 years old has already offset the environmental impact of the original manufacture, right?
I'm up for doing stuff myself where possible and like the idea of it. My Dad was an automotive engineer and I'm practical, so reckon I could learn quite a bit. I don't have a garage, although the local council are advertising affordable garages just down the road which is tempting for security reasons.
But yeah, I think I want one for the right reasons, which is that I just want one because I think they're a design classic, look cool, are relatively practical, hopefully not too expensive to maintain, have charm in buckets unlike most more modern cars, etc.
Did you keep yours on the street? Also, initial enquiries suggest you have to insure them as a van, not as a car, is that right?
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Fox, we have finished our family affair with landies now and switched to Suzukis.
We had a SIII airportable, a 109 and a SIIA 24v and 3 Range rovers (not all at once mind)
Fuel costs are crippling if you do loads of mileage, 2 Rangerovers got converted to gas, think the first one paid for the conversion in 8months on saved fuel costs....
Expect wooly steering, a metronome speedo if you go over forty, crap fuel economy and bits randomly dropping off. Get a haynes manual and they are more fun if you can little jobs yourself.
They are slow, hard to drive(no power steering) archaic beasts, but like many things very collectable, working landies can be found fairly cheaply but done up show ponies get silly prices.
They are 100% rebuildable which is part of the charm.
I still have my flying helmet and goggles and white silk scarf from when i had the airportable lightweight, no roof, no doors, and no windscreen, rollbar and roo bar and firestone sats, was like something from mad-max.
Always got stopped and breathalised by the police for some reason :)
You gotta love em to want one.