Re: SER1 Old Sodbury Sortout

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On 4 Apr 2005, at 14:20, Mark Strangways wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was there and met up with Tom Bache and his party of Jeff, Mike and 
> Pete from the States. They certainly had a good day and bought loads. 
> I think the bargain of the day was a Series One for £50 UKP!! I saw 
> Nick Howard sell that to someone as I arrived at his stall. (He 
> advertises electrical parts in the Legend - used to be called Heritage 
> spares but is now something else)
>

Blimey!!! what sort ? The company is now stokenham spares. (01933 
405566)

> There did seem to be quite a bit of Series One stuff around which 
> makes a change, even a 2litre diesel engine but there was no way I 
> could have got that back home to Yorkshire sadly. My bargain of the 
> day was a new safari door with the spare wheel mount at the bottom for 
> my Series 2A, for a tenner.
>

Result!
> It was my first visit, and a great day it was too - my only complaint 
> was that there were just too many stalls to get round in one day. I 
> also made the mistake of not buying things as soon as I saw them, 
> because I could not find my way back to where they were later........
>

Yeah I had trouble finding my way back to the person I bought the wheel 
from to pick it up.  Making a mental note that the stall was near an 
interesting land rover didn't help much.... :-)

Did you see the prototype Shorland armored Land Rover?  Not something 
you see every day.



Jon


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