Had a great day today - went and bought a second early 110 V8.
This is an 84 Station Wagon which has chassis number 1004, I'm told that this is one of the first four that were shipped out from Solihull as CKD to South Africa and assembled at the old Elsies River plant, before LR SA started building their own.
We've now got a perfect set up for expeditions into Southern Africa. 2 x 110's, one the Station wagon with 5 seats, and one a 2 door hard top with bags of space. Both have the 3.5 V8 with Strombergs and the LT95 box. No nasty electronics to let us down in the middle of the Kalahari.
The only major difference (apart from the number of doors) is the Solihull 110 does not have a galvanised chassis.
Think the wife won't be seeing much of me for a while whilst I get the new arrival all set up for the next outing.
Steve
84 110 V8 Hard top
84 110 V8 Station wagon
Durban
Jack - 22 May 2006 01:00 GMT
Had a great day today - went and bought a second early 110 V8.
This is an 84 Station Wagon which has chassis number 1004, I'm told that
this is one of the first four that were shipped out from Solihull as CKD to
South Africa and assembled at the old Elsies River plant, before LR SA
started building their own.
We've now got a perfect set up for expeditions into Southern Africa. 2 x
110's, one the Station wagon with 5 seats, and one a 2 door hard top with
bags of space. Both have the 3.5 V8 with Strombergs and the LT95 box. No
nasty electronics to let us down in the middle of the Kalahari.
The only major difference (apart from the number of doors) is the Solihull
110 does not have a galvanised chassis.
Think the wife won't be seeing much of me for a while whilst I get the new
arrival all set up for the next outing.
Steve
84 110 V8 Hard top
84 110 V8 Station wagon
Durban
Steve:
What is the chassis? Non-galvanized steel?
Jack
Maloney - 22 May 2006 19:56 GMT
> Had a great day today - went and bought a second early 110 V8.
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> Jack
Yep, standard BL steel, now with an extra couple of layers of hammerite and
oil
Steve
84 110 V8 Hard top
84 110 V8 Station wagon
Durban