Hello everyone...

[Jozza]

Hello all- this is the first post from a lurker.

 

First off, thanks for all the information and entertainment you guys have provided since I stumbled across this place!

 

I'm afraid I don't own any beige Japanese exotica or anything bizarre and French. My daily transport is this:

 

 

A 1990 Landy Ninety County Station Wagon complete with tweed seats, go-faster stripes, steel Rostyles, a massive 'turbo' decal on the back and (if you believe the magazines) the worst engine LR ever made.

 

The drive is also graced by this:

 

 

Not mine- we let a friend park it with us 'just until he sorted some space for it'. That was 5 years ago. It has an SD1 engine in it and a completely shot chassis and bulkhead so it will probably never see an MOT again.

 

My dad's been into BMC/BL stuff for years and years. This is his current project:

 

 

 

A very crusty (but road legal) Daimler 250. Personally I quite like the rusty chrome, smokey exhaust and primered wings for the 'down-at-heel Lord-of-the-Manor' look.

 

There's also the agricultural shite:

 

 

A Fergie TE-20 with the petrol/paraffin Standard Vanguard engine. Looks rubbish but always starts first time when needed.

 

Finally, the reason I decided to join today. I was reading the Maxi 1750 thread and realised that there must be some link between autoshite and reed organs because this currently resides in the kitchen:

 

 

An 1895 Mason & Hamlin (the Mercedes W123 of reed organs), bought on a whim on eBay for £20.

 

Cheers.

[VWPowered]

@ the Mercedes W123 of reed organswelcome to AS

[Cavcraft]

Welcome along mucker. Harvey Frost Land Rover looks cool, can't you go and tow some scrap away with it before it dissolves?

[trigger]

Hello and welcome!Tayne will love your Landy, so do i, i think they look great in red.Nice organ BTW.

[ChinaTom]

Welcome!! I had an uncle with a TE20. Lovely old things.{rings relatives to see what happened to it...}Sold to some nice Irish chaps for £250. Bugger.

[FredTransit]

Welcome mate, lovin the landies.

[dollywobbler]

Howdy. Nice Landy and nice organ sir! W123 of organs - does that mean it's a bit slow and damp gets in around the back?

[Mr H Sceptre]

Hello, good evening, and welcome!The so-called 'Management'

[HillmanImp]

and realised that there must be some link between autoshite and reed organs because this currently resides in the kitchen:

Hmmmm, you could be right. Raymanboy seems to have a lot of keyboards and shite cars. Welcome along. Loving the Daimler. Whats the difference between these and the Jags? These seem to go for a lot less. Thats a good thing as i can still theoretically afford one. Is there a fundamental difference (sorry if i am sounding dim here).

[maxpower]

hello and welcome.... soon as i saw the organ monty python sketch came to mind

[Albert Ross]

SEMPRINI???!!!!WANT THE 109 to go with my other 109s...... I need Marine Blue in my life.Will donate a bag of belly button fluff, three marbles, a quarter pound of last year's sherbet lemons with paper stuck to them, and what I believe used to be a frog. (All found in the pocket of a coat I found in the seatbox locker of my 109) Swap?Can you do us a quick rendition of Nimrod please??

[pompei]

Love your organ, mister (oo-er) and the old Daimler Pure class

[Jozza]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Will donate a bag of belly button fluff, three marbles, a quarter pound of last year's sherbet lemons with paper stuck to them, and what I believe used to be a frog. (All found in the pocket of a coat I found in the seatbox locker of my 109) Swap?

The owner now just wants shot of it (as do we, since its taking up a valuable chunk of driveway) so you never know. It's amazing the things that you find when clearing out the various crannies of a Landy isn't it? The blue 109's loadbed lockers were full of used shotgun cartridges, which makes you wonder what sort of breakdown service it was used for....You can see the V8 109 in 'action' when I managed to stir it into life to have its gearbox rebuilt after a few years standing:

Whats the difference between these and the Jags? These seem to go for a lot less. Thats a good thing as i can still theoretically afford one. Is there a fundamental difference (sorry if i am sounding dim here).

The Daimler 250 has Daimler's own 2.5-litre hemi V8 engine in it (as used in the Daimler Dart). Apart from that and the crinkly radiator grille they are identical to the Jag Mk2. They are slightly strange because, despite being Daimlers they were less well-specced than a top of the range Jag 340, for example but are much faster than a small-engined Jag. They do go for a lot less 'because they aren't Jaguars'.

Howdy. Nice Landy and nice organ sir! W123 of organs - does that mean it's a bit slow and damp gets in around the back?

Not quite- M&H organs are built on the principle of 'Why use one screw when six will do?' and they're made from mahogany on a steel frame to stop the woodworm in the tropics getting in so they're virtually indestructible but nearly impossible to do any work on. However since mine has a leaky bellows on one side maybe some sort of Hydragas analogy would have been better?

[Tayne]

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[eggy]

Hello, loving the 109 its great,the wee fergies a beast,A guy used to have one round my way thats only job was to take the bins down to the main road.

[Guest]

Hey there.I know nowt about Land Rovers, but I like yours.How much does your mate want for the Michelin man? Always wanted one o' thems.

[Minimad5]

Welcome !Like that little tractor, and great Land Rovers.Thank you for showing us Your "Shite" !

[meggersdog]

The 90 county looks very nice in red.Those 2.5 turbo's are a bit agricultural aren't they,hang on weren't they aimed at that market ? Before the 200TDi Discovery my last Land Rover was a 90 2.5 turbo with a van body.My first Landy was a series 11 SWB 2.25 petrol with a Harvey Frost on the back so I'm loving that 109.SD1 V8 eh,if it's going begging MrScruff will be along shortly to take it to France.

[whiskeyonesix]

A fine collection of tat there!

[Angrydicky]

Just watched the video of the 109....I know nothing about Land Rovers but that one sounded lovely. Go for it Albert Ross!

[Father Ted]

Can I request

[ProgRocker]

Hello!

[chester drawers]

An 1895 Mason & Hamlin (the Mercedes W123 of reed organs), bought on a whim on eBay for £20.

Was the seller a white coat-wearing mad scientist in a Bavarian castle, surrounded by over-sized knife switches, bolts of lightning and some kind of monster? Welcome. I’m liking the shite. And the duck

[Guest]

That looks like a nice un-modified Mini Rose sneaking into the photos next to the Daimler.

[Jozza]

That looks like a nice un-modified Mini Rose sneaking into the photos next to the Daimler.

It is indeed. It's my sister's (she's called Rose and likes Minis so it was an inevitable choice). Glad you described it as 'un-modified' because when she first got it it was horribly blinged-up with plastic 'chrome' and Halfords after-market wheel trims. Cue lots of trudges around Bealieu Autojumble for the correct 'Nimbus Grey' plastic bits to get it into its current state.

The 90 county looks very nice in red.Those 2.5 turbo's are a bit agricultural aren't they,hang on weren't they aimed at that market ? Before the 200TDi Discovery my last Land Rover was a 90 2.5 turbo with a van body

The Landy I had before the Ninety was a SIII 88 2.25 diesel- a bombproof motor and surprisingle good on fuel but it made the Ninety seem like a Bentley by comparison.

The Ninety looks good, is that a Solihull registration number?

Well spotted . It was a Rover Group company car when new- the 'delivery dealer' stamp in the service book is actually the Solihull factory itself and the first 2 years of servicing were carried out by a Rover Group division at Longbridge.

[Guest]

It is indeed. It's my sister's (she's called Rose and likes Minis so it was an inevitable choice). Glad you described it as 'un-modified' because when she first got it it was horribly blinged-up with plastic 'chrome' and Halfords after-market wheel trims. Cue lots of trudges around Bealieu Autojumble for the correct 'Nimbus Grey' plastic bits to get it into its current state.

My wife is very pleased as she also has one! Hers is completely standard apart from having silver (instead of white) wheel trims. 20k miles from new,almost mint, old lady owner before she got it etc. I'll have to get some photos of it sometime, I usually just lurk here!

[scruff]

Welcome! I like the Ninety, I had a red TD a few years ago and whilst the vehicle itself was toss the engine was pretty good. I don't reckon they are that bad, bit thirsty mind. Those Eighties CSWs are nice, I also had a G reg V8 110 which was brilliant (but very rotten)

[scruff]

Jozza - I had an ex-Rover TD 90 County on a photoshoot a couple of years ago, was it yours?