Re: SER1 OT: Remanufactured Landys

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Eighty Inch wrote:
> The best Land Rovers ever made were the late series 2a suffix d gearbox
> models with the headlamps in the mudguards (wings/fenders, some people
> called them Series II b)  before British Leyland when they lost their
> morals.
Have to disagree here....

Give me an 80" any time.... maybe modded to use a Series III layshaft 
(all-syncro) - but the lively driving is just sooo much better than a 
Series II or III....


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