What a long three days putting a front end together! After weeks of waiting for the weather to warm up, two days of 22 - 25 degrees meant it was perfect to finally spray the wings of the Defender 130. The man was pretty happy he finally worked out how to get the finish right, and they came up better than we'd hoped. Of course, we aren't going for perfect - perfect would mean spending a couple of thousand dollars for new panels, but we decided to go for 'charm'. Somehow they ended up curing inside on the rug, but lucky his wife likes Landrovers...
By Saturday morning, this boy was ready to roll. Of course, it's one of those projects that you think it's just a matter of bolting it all together which can't take too long, surely, but then you have to find the bits, and come across the usual hiccups that mean it ends up taking all weekend.
We found that the front headlights were stone chipped, but luckily we have a mate who lives up the road who is into Landrovers (he is the one that made the honeycomb grill for us and the bashplate you can see in the final photo) and he had a whole box of them that he didn't want, so we managed to get two for free. That's a bonus, as Defender parts are not cheap and every little thing you buy adds up.
It's so exciting to feel like we ACTUALLY have a Defender in our garage! Still a lot of work to be done still on the interior, getting the brakes done, the doors - hell, lots and lots of work to be done still! But this was a HUGE milestone and we couldn't be more thrilled. I tell you what, that was a well deserved cuppa tea, my man!
With Love,
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You can read our other Landrover posts by clicking on any of the links below. Follow us on Instagram @wildtrackdreaming
Landrover Club Meet Up Victoria
Sunday Driving in The Great Otways Park
In Which We Buy A Series 2 and a S3 Military
RedNeck in the Australian Bush: A Landover Horror Story
Buying the 130
Landrover Camper Improvements
Progress on Series 3
Series 3 Restoration Complete
Nut and Bolt Restoration Ending - Series 3
How to Trick Your Wife Into a New Landrover
Series 3 Build Progress
Starting the Rebuild
70th Anniversary at Cooma
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Very nice rebuild.
I'm going read up your previous posts.
I especially like the title of "How to Trick Your Wife Into a New Landrover"
Haha yes, well that happened. There's a few more on that list I need to add. I might do a Peakd collection since they have that feature now.
Yes. Collections are excellent. I’ve done a few already and need to organise a lot of my content into collections.
I'm so happy to read about your progress with this project. It seems to bring both of you a lot of joy. I hope you'll be able to enjoy some trips soon.
xx
Thanks beautiful xx
I haven´t checked your blog for a while. is it like that landrover is a never ending project? Is it still the same, the one that was yellow in the beginning?
Anyway, looks pretty cool. I want one as well :)
Hope you guys can go on a camping trip the upcoming summer.
Oh no.. we have three Landrovers! The yellow one is this one...
And this one we bought last winter lockdown, and are still working on a year later.
But we are also doing up this one
Keeps us off the streets 🤣 We are in lockdown AGAIN, otherwise we may not have been crazy enough to pull apart the third one.
Three?! Only one left to have one for every season :)
Love those Landrovers, perfect for Australia.
Sorry to hear that you´re in lockdown again. It seems like something is getting out of control in Australia. I don´t like what I hear and see every day. Fingers crosser that this bullshit is over soon.
At the moment we are all feeling hopeless. Honestly everyone is brainwashed at the moment.
Same in Germany. Here I feel better, hope it stays like this.
It's looking awesome! Now go out and get it dirty lol!
Oh man! Can't wait. But still, another month or two of work AND we have to get it roadworthy. Still, it does look freaking awesome right!!!
haha you have become SUCH a car-buff! 😆 Hope the warm weather comes soon, restrictions ease and some LANDY ADVENTURES appear on your horizon! x
Yes,who would have thought? I can now spot a Puma defender from a new one, and tell the differences between the Series, and I even know how an engine works. This is what happens when you pay attention to your husbands interests.
Fucking 5 km rule! We ain't going anywhere for ages and they are holding us to ransom over vaccinations. Don't even get me started ...grrrr
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Very cool, and satisfying, to reach milestones on a big project.
Missed this one, was detoxing on our ranch. That photo from the ground level, with the skid plate, is just badass! The best part is when we assemble the beasts back together and forgets that one missing bolt.