Anyone know who may have done the restoration on this? Land Rover Defender | eBay

you mean paint job? I usually reserve the term restoration for when the bulkhead matches the respray

 

For half the price of that you can get twice the truck. If you do not believe me, go drive that, then come over to my place and test drive my perentie.

http://www.defendersource.com/forum/f8/110-perentie-troop-carrier-29-900ono-70504.html

 

For half the price of that you can get twice the truck. http://www.defendersource.com/forum/f8/110-perentie-troop-carrier-29-900ono-70504.html

truth! And get it sprayed whatever color suits your fancy and a new top and still have a better rig

 

It looks like they bought a ~$8k MOD truck, replaced a couple of lights, maybe put on some new coil springs, restitched some seats, and then drove it over to MAACO. Oh and aromor-all'd the crap out of it. Not really a restoration, so they probably did it in-house. Doesn't look like a $70k truck. For that type of price I'd sell you my D90 which is way nicer.

 

and then drove it over to MAACO

... who gave them 20% off since they were already spraying the 90 in the background General Lee-ish orange.

 

awful.

 

They have three of them listed, all for big money and zero work besides paint and screw on bits.

Also insane price tags, you can get truly re-built vehicles for that kind of money

 

That trucks been here before

 

Agreed, I tried to search earlier but could not get it to pop up.




I actually think that 90 looks pretty good. I don't think it's worth what they are asking, but I do like the truck.

 

The overseas source for that dealership is The Landrovers in NL. Daniel Van Oordt there is a member of this forum. Fairly certain this is his work.

 

http://www.defendersource.com/forum/f14/restored-lhd-v8-exmod-110-not-mine-64356.html

Vin's are diff, but same place.

 

http://www.the-landrovers.com/?viba_portfolio=g4-adventure

 

Yeah, that is definitley an Ex-Military Model.

 

Adding vin number SALLDHAV8FA417857

 

Hell for that price, I'll sell my truck
It's umm... nice

It's got all the flair, and everything works too
Imagine that, a truck that you could actually drive and have it not self destruct in a week...

 

I live 5 minutes from their office. I actually stopped by to see the copper 90 with 200TDI and talk to him again on Friday. Nice guy and loves Defenders. Has a few more on the way. To me, the prices are outrageous but they have been selling. I wonder for how much lower than asking.

 

The color is pretty bad but I am looking for something I can drive. Not looking for a daily driver but am going to want to drive it weekly.

I would love to tackle a resto on my current 110 but just don't have anywhere near the skills and ability.

 

The color is pretty bad but I am looking for something I can drive. Not looking for a daily driver but am going to want to drive it weekly. I would love to tackle a resto on my current 110 but just don't have anywhere near the skills and ability.

If that truck is within your budget for a weekly driver, then mine is for sale! I'll even let it go for less than that..

 

Neil Hanekom has a really solid mod 110 diesel softtop that has a new bulkhead and is well sorted, on ebay.

A customer brought an xmod 110 diesel softop that runs and drives fantastically well, and has all of the typical mod body 'mods', like the cracked tailgate from dropping it onto the pintle hitch, the dented bonnet from standing on the spare tire, and frequent applications of paint with a brush. It's listed in the For Sale section under Dreamrover.
Both are cars in the mid-teens and in IMHO, are very good examples of basic Rover transportation.

 

rolling back to my first days of Land Rover enthusiasm, we have to remember to novices that have dreamed of Rovers their whole life and or late in life and now have the money to buy one, all these look the same to the untrained eye. To quote the Top Gear fellahs, "Defenders are timeless". 87', 97', 07' all look the same.

At least that's my theory why people throw crazy money at them.

 

rolling back to my first days of Land Rover enthusiasm, we have to remember to novices that have dreamed of Rovers their whole life and or late in life and now have the money to buy one, all these look the same to the untrained eye. To quote the Top Gear fellahs, "Defenders are timeless". 87', 97', 07' all look the same. At least that's my theory why people throw crazy money at them.

For me it was regret that I didn't buy the 93 110 new when I could, I bought a land cruiser instead..
Anyway I think your right mark