Hi all, a pleasure to meet you. I go by Tugela Trooper on this site.

I've had a (mostly) 1970 series 3 109 petrol Land Rover for over a year now and have been slowly tinkering away/ enjoying her.

I know, I know. She is registered as a 1970 but the majority of the car is actually a Series 3. Haven't checked all the numbers but I think the bulkhead is from the early 1970's. Let's just say she's a bit mixed up. Whose series isn't?

I bought her as one normally does. Bad time, didn't really have the money. No idea how to fix her up. I am changing that slowly. Am only in my mid 20s but I am currently working abroad for some bucks, some of which will go into the car. I really love her and even when all logical voices said "sell", I didn't.

I'm devastated that I have only driven her round my area a handful of times. Many of which ended up in a tow. I'm smoorkwaad at whatever bush mechanic put in a modified Rochester carb!! That's given some headaches. Not to mention whatever fool rewired her (not too badly) but left all the original cabling in just to confuse me with a bird's nest. The plan is to undo all that, get her as close to original as money (or lack of it) permits and then ride into the sunset.

I love to love her. I could spend a day dreaming of fixing her up to perfection. Shiny as though she just rolled off the factory floor at Solihull. I will never get to that point, I'm just not that kind of guy, but I do fully intend to get her to be a mostly reliable daily runner.

For now I have to sit across the sea and look at prices for various carb kits, body parts etc. I'm planning my great Land Rover revamp now as I write this and have already posted a thread on the forum here. Check it out and lend your wisdom.

In closing, here's a couple of pics of my second girlfriend (don't tell the other one I said that...). Great to be here. Looking forward to all the arguments about rivets, materials and LR purity.

 

That’s awesome! Very nice find. Welcome to the forum.