Can You REALLY Daily Drive A 60-Year-Old Land Rover?
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This week, Alex, Ethan and Jack spend time with a 60-year-old Land Rover to find out if you can really live with a vehicular artefact!
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The most amazing thing that Land Rover did was make Jack and Ethan vanish everytime there was an external shot ha ha
I noticed haha
Da heck 😂
Did edit them realise that the choke was still out
I did not know privacy glass was an option in the 1960’s
Yaaaaaa 😂😂😂😂
18:15 'It's like sitting in a Jacuzzi'. The reaction to that remark is ten times funnier than anything I've ever seen done by Clarkson, May and Hammond.
Me: looking at the thumbnail:
-Sees truck-
Its the shawn the sheep car ! 😋
Ah yes shawn the sheep :D
Just found this channel and subscribed....
Its like a prequel to top gear three young versions of Clarkson, Hammond and May but with cars most people can afford..... worth the subscription.
Series 2, brings back memories. I leant and passed my driving test in a LR series 2. Great fun.
They flooded it, so they give it more choke? In Jack's words: "have you ever been in a car before?"
This is amazing! In Austria you get your plates taken away if there‘s a something like a single rust spot on the bonnet.. but then again I wouldn‘t want to get run over by something like that because the owner forgot to install the brakes.. lol
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW VIDEO FOR SOOOO LONG!!!!!
Love it! Do more land rover stuff!
I ran a series 2a as my daily hack for three years, no issues. My 1960s series towed our bmw engined freelander and a number of occaisions and illustrates why many people no longer buy the more modern units. Its coming to something whrn the local landrover dealers cant diagnose issues with the newer units..... past glories me thinkst
So funny how Jack is TERRIFIED that Alex will break it 🤣
Red knob is high/low range, yellow 4x4 in high range. Low range is 4x4 only..
You guys should be the ones doing Top Gear. Second best car-show trio (sorry but Clarkson-Hammond-May will always be number 1!)
Good fun for a daily, we have a dormobile roof on one of our series 3s and have been all over the UK in it as well as using it as a daily although it has gained an early Discovery diesel to make it easier on the pocket
Added a few mins ago and there's already 77 comments, wow
r/whooosh
Mark my words, this video will go viral!
Car throttle everytime when they get new car = let's go to mc Donald's
No matter what age, how battered and dirty an old Land Rover is, it still looks good and totally cool to attend the Palace for afternoon tea
I love this, speed camera!! Speed up!!
Love this💯
I am also going through the same stuff with my '89 Pajero.
Pushing it while you have a full battery and working starter. Push in the choke gents.You flooded it.
11:58 The car starts to play Meshuggah-Bleed :DD
Alex just makes me happy :D
MOT's are a good thing. It's very good value for money if you think about it.. Having a mechanic inspect your car for £30
Learnt how to drive in one of these, I was 12 years old & living on a farm. Most fun ever, also scariest drive ever lol
Best. Video. EVER.
let's take this to its natural habitat 'the scrap yard' gets me everytime
Try taking your poncey Range Rove through those trees. Ha! I learnt to drive in one of those. I'm also the same age as that. Cool.
I'm no prude or anything but sorry guys the choke gag didn't take my breath away.
My neighbor actually does this. Daliy driving his old land rover. His name is Helmut, but everyone in the village calls him "Rover" xD
every American farmers truck drives the exact same way and its fine
i tow with really loose steering and 5 tons of cattle in the back
Thing of absolute beauty 😎
This is wicked cool.
Flooded? Choke on, full gas, start and push the choke during starting back
15:58 in, where did your passengers go? LOL
Did you have to film this twice as some clips have 1 driver in ???? :) :)
No tax or MOT...... might need to buy the Triumph Spitfire now then...
Driving onto the green lane must look so weird for other motorists looks like you just crashed into a hedge
"it's flooded" so Alex pulls the choke put further and proceeds to pump the throttle 🤣
Stick to EFI boys lol
My little motorbike is 36 years old and I'm waiting for her to turn 40 like it's me turning 18 all over again
MOT and Tax exempt? That should be an affordable/reliable car challenge. Then can you live with/daily a car that old.
That defender (or any defender) is neither affordable or reliable ahahhah
@@Jack-sf1gg Yeah, I probably wouldn't pick a Defender. There are lots of that vintage in New Zealand where cars just don't rust much.
@@Jack-sf1gg It's not a Defender it's a Series 2 (Defender wasn't launched until 1990)
Yes Thomas you can have one as a daily. I used a '68 Volvo Amazon as my practical car (main car was a MX-5, not know for their carrying capacity 🤣) for several years and it was fantastic 😁 . Got a '94 Range Rover now. Love it but still miss the Volvo...
That thing would have awful fuel economy like 20mpg tops and it won't get better outside the city either.
@@garethreece Was the tax and MOT exemption an economic benefit of did running an old car as a fldaily eat any savings?
Only Alex has the arms to turn that steering wheel.
Shame he can't reach the pedals.
I've turned the steering wheel on one of these stationary and its not difficult at all and that was back when I was 15. Its harder to steer a modern without power steering than it is one of those.
The reason old cars and lorries have a big wheel is to act as a lever - it shouldn't be too hard unless you have to parallel park or something like that.
They should try a classic mini next
@@eror57 Yeah! Maybe they could recreate the thing they did at a longbridge motorshow in 1959 where they fit 4 people and a load of luggage in. See here: media.gettyimages.com/photos/promotional-event-for-the-austin-seven-and-morris-miniminors-five-picture-id848970300?s=2048x2048
@@C.I... unless it's a 106 1.1 with no power steering
Imagine driving on a main road and you just see an old beaten landrover dive full speed into the shrubbery
"Ah, yes. The native Land Rover.
A creature so rare, that a mere glimpse will linger in your memory for months to come. It's natural habitat, rural and often terribly isolated, has left it understandably cautious and skeptical of modern day complexities such as motorways and three-point seat-belts.
When it does venture out, driven by curiosity and a natural desire to explore, any encounter with a modern vehicle is very brief. The sight of exterior plastics and LED headlamps, not to mention silent electric drives, leave the Land Rover confused and dumbfounded to the point of emotional distress.
With as much speed as it's overdrive can muster, it vanishes; back to the safety and comfort...of the green lane."
@Adrian Bennett Thank you! That's exactly what I was going for.
Imagine seeing a Peugeot’s head rolling across the road
We want ... A SHRUBBERY!
@@jakestyne3050 ni
"This engine can be fixed by a hammer"
The perfect car for PhD of Engineering Jeremy Clarkson.
You Spelled Jeremy wrong.
Jezza School of Mechanical Engineering.
It is literally how we start ours
@@untitledswed1661 let me guess, Lucas fuel pump?
"Land Rover, Proudly turning owners into mechanics since 1948"
Never heard that before. I like it.
However Triumph of Meriden got me trained up first!
That's brilliant😂👍
😂
1948 😂
@@willcarter3382 You're right😂
2:05
Alex: "We've got three pedals as normal"
Americans watching: 👁👄👁
New LR Discovery owners:
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americans know how to drive manuals lol wtf
@@pyrotechnick420 nah I'm american and I can confirm that the average american younger then 60 can in fact not drive stick.
@@georgeyaknowthegeorgeyeathatme Yea but it's not the consumer's fault that american car companies chose to make all their cars manual. What if I told you that Europeans only drive more manuals because their car companies are cheap and don't want to spend the extra money on more expensive automatic transmissions lol.
@@pyrotechnick420 I agree, I would love if more american cars has stick. Although if you want the best performance now days get a paddle shifting sequential
ME: Oh a new 23-minute car throttle episode!!!! 🔥🔥
Alex: Searches for the fuel filler cap for half the time 😂😂
Americans be like: “yup I’ll pay $60k for that”
@M kay doug's isnt from the 60s though
do they actually? 😂😂 time to drive mine over there.. thinking about it it'll cost more than 60k in fuel just to reach the UK coastline at 0.00001 mpg 😭
@@scottycranmer8548 Americans are used to 7.3 liter diesel fords, so I dont think that's a huge turn off 😂
@@gabrielmessam2374 it's a huge turn off for me to drive it anywhere. it sits in the shed 99.999% of the year LOL
I got a series 3 for 5k in Europe lol
Why did you bother trying to bump start when it had a perfectly good starter motor 🤷♂️
You just needed to push the choke all the way in and give it full throttle to clear its throat 👍
Because they know precious little about how engines work.
yeah the engine was already being turned lol. What weirded me out more was that they used the starter AND push-started it at the same time
Godfrey Poon you’re not wrong there 🤣
Chris Johnson yeah i couldn’t wrap my head around why they both got out and pushed it... if it didn’t start after being turned over quickly 20 times by a perfectly good battery and starter what made them think it would go with the slight cranking you get from a bump start?
And don’t you bump start in 2nd gear not 1st 🤷♂️
@@MO3MINI It pained me to see them fail on something pretty obvious
*The gang tries their hardest to get a speeding ticket*
Well that would never happen, but if it did they / the car would go in the Guinness world records!!
You can get a speeding ticket for driving too slowly.
@@chrisbradley6957 Not true, my '67 2A has a 200TDI, Discovery diffs, and overdrive, - so to get nicked in it for speeding is quite possible..
Jack:“It looks like you could fix everything with a hammer“
Happy Jeremy clarckson noises
Tis a gd meme
Ery' Noice
I can imagine Jezza smug/smiling staring face im my brain right now 🤣
There is one challenge the lads missed; Starting the engine using a crank handle through that hole in the front bumper.
Yellowbird Nest yes would have been good but not the original engine though
Broken wrists galore. 😂
@@grahamlive No problem, had a flat battery on my 1976 109" petrol, out with the starting handle, a few cranks on the handle and away we go, easy.
@@Skilly42 You would still be able to crank start a 17H engine like that
yea they wouldnt have it in them to just pull it up on compression and it should start if its sparking and timings right been there done that had several
I use mine as a daily 😂🤣. As long as I have extra wires in the back and my huge toolbox, I'm good to go 😂😂😍. I can't live without it honestly it's my first car and had it for 7 full years of swearing and fixing and full on fun offroad 👌✌️
My partner also drives one daily! He absolutely loves it. He can fix nearly everything on his own. Sometimes it is not so easy to get spare parts here in continental Europe the other point is that he drives a Santana Land rover which means it is from Spain.
I drive my Series III daily as well, I absolutely love it
Another one here! Ragnar was my first car and drive him almost every day (ragnartheredrover on insta). Everyone seems to love him
Cool, but take a break from the emojis geez
I think I owned that in about 1992. The registration springs to mind. It had a safari hardtop on then that was essentially a nature reserve with the amount of greenery and moss that was growing on it,
I drove a land rover on one of my old jobs after 5 minutes i thought this thing is absolutely terrible 10 minutes later im thinking there's something about this shed after about half an hour i got it had a smile from ear to ear and it remains one of the worst and one of the best vehicle's iv ever driven
There’s some rubbish and some very decent ones to be had on eBay. About 3 or four grand will get you an alright early sixties 2 or 67/68 2A. Get that smile back. I had two , a 2A from 86 to 91 then a series one 95 to 2000 Then an 18 year gap , Peugeot diesel estates, now on third Rover, 61 lwb 2.5 tdi. Had to scratch that itch again! I fucking love them
Worst car I've ever driven, but it is by far the best and fastest tractor I've ever used!!
If you have a farm it is a no brainer.
I drove these as a tourist guide. You're right, it's so terrible I love it
@@mnapoletano7723 the bad things about them are out weighed by the good things it was a lot of fun to drive far better than the L200 i had to drive on that job also
Back when Land Rovers were built to last and be reliable...
A long time ago :D
Land Rovers are the most reliable unreliable car ik of. All the parts are dirt cheap and easy to replace but they'll wear if you go off roading. My dad has a disco 1 right now and it's great.
@@LedplimmyXD the parts are made cheap but when you go to buy them they cost a lot of money
@@danieldarch2982 everything we've replaced on my dad's disco 1 has been cheap but they are expensive to replace on other cars.
@@LedplimmyXD that's because my dads is a defender
Bump starting a car when the starter works perfectly? I thought this was a knowledgeable car channel!
M kay that’s the point.
That's what I was thinking. Also 'you flooded it, let's choke it some more'. When it finally started you could hear that it wasn running waaay too rich because they choked the shyte out of it even it probably was still warm. Then a cut, choke lever is in, car idles smoothly. Who knew?
jk hope u have a good day
Never seen anyone bump start a car and start with ignition at the same time
@@zam5864 Haha yeah, they might not be too far off from Ethan after all
We need more classic cars on CarThrottle!
I want this pinned
No. If they do they will lose many subs including me
Without wishing to be a jerk, I can tell from your profile picture that you are clearly interested in supercars only, therefore the idea of any car built pre-2000 on CT wouldn’t interest you, and anyway, there’s already been a classic car on Car Throttle - the £5,000 Bentley
Please no, I feel bad for the poor cars lmao.
I reviewed an ELECTRIC one of these a while ago if anybody wants to watch :) th-cam.com/video/eeaGrr1boLY/w-d-xo.html
10:53 "You've flooded it" proceeds to turn on choke and pump the carb
Yeah, bit embarrassing that three 'car guys' don't know how to clear a flooded carb.... 😂
Yeah but the push start helped too!😁😂😂
@@iamaparanoidandroid1 because they're used to cars with computers
iamaparanoidandroid I feel as though jack new how to start it “properly” he just let Alex and Ethan figure it out for them selves, more content for the video I guess. He did look very conscious not to break anything during the video tho
Definitely flooded it, so lets pull the choke out even further🙄🤦🏻
And pump the accelerator.
Yep if they had pushed it in after they cranked it with it out the first time it would have started
Hahaha haven't a foggy
"This is a car that you can't live with but that you can have fun with."
me: *casually daily driving it in the city*
Really are you serious
that would be one unique car to be driving in the city
Electric ignition i bet
This is a car hopeless people can't live with. Mine's a daily driver too. Had it 40+ years.
they talk so much about editing stuff out that it makes you wonder what kinds of embarrassments the actually take out :D
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Alex: “I’ve got a grab handle right here for you”
Ethan: 😳
Bruh I was losing it when I heard that, and the face he was making🤣🤣🤣🤣
It hit the spot😂😂🤣🤣
"you've flooded it haven't you?" proceeds to pull choke🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Yup now it's flooded oh wow
I daily drive a 69 series 2a . Su carb starts on the flick of the key. Great daily driver . Tows a caravan too :)
As long as you have a tool kit and plenty of time you can live with one of these.😜
@Ken Norcott which range rover? My 84 hasn't let me down since I've owned it. Few broken wires and electrical jobs but simple really. Great cars.
@@Mortonbmx I assume he is talking about Chelsea tractor era ones you see outside the school and if that is the case he is 100% correct.
@@gravemind6536 for sure, the predecessor p38 is riddled with electrical problems constantly. Wouldnt own buy one if you payed me.
Ethan and Jack became invisible in the exterior driving shots lol
It's just a bug, set your graphics to ultra and there will be no prob
@@stephenhr6938 it's not a bug he is right they are not at 13:59
Rajesh Choudhary it’s definitely a bug I messed around for abit and they appeared
@@rajeshchoudhary8070 Whoosh
@@rajeshchoudhary8070 India gay
Jesus that was painful watching you 3 trying to start that poor Landy lol
Kinda like old Top Gear and I'm not a fan of that.
Way too much choke, intentionally making look more difficult than it is.
Yeah bro it did look quiet painful to be fair.
I sat here thinking...FFS ?
As a student with a 1966 long wheelbase firetruck version of these, I'll say they're very liveable once you get used to them, and you can literally fix them with a fork.
I haven't laughed like the way I did in this video in a long time.
You should get out more
Holy shit. I've just realised a first year Austin Metro is MOT and Tax exempt.
*I need one.*
Good luck they are gaining value quickly id say get one befor its to expensive
@@frank1015I've owned a few back in the day my god, I NEVER thought I'd hear someone say Metro and expensive in the same sentence!!
I swear, it might be true but I nearly died laughing😂🤣😆
@@Craig-wp3pz im talking about clean one you can still fin cheap ones but they have rust all over
Try finding one that hasn't got terminal tin-worm though :s
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It’s nice to see jack in his element, apart from filming obviously!
This is easily the best Car Throttle episode I've seen. I hate new Land Rovers because of poor reliability, but I'd totally own one of the old ones because they are so cool. This one in particular with it's cute face and short wheel base is awesome and quirky, it's front looks like Austin Healey Frogeye. It's so fun to be hard to drive because you put in the effort and it pays off. I'm glad i had the chance to witness such a car.
Funny thing is my dad built a series 2 with his dad and now I’ll be restoring it with my dad. It was white but my dad as a teenager "modded" it by painting it purple
Yikes
Didn’t ask g
Josh Robson I did
@@CIR3N i asked, its interesting to know. So yeah please shut it.
@@CIR3N did we ask about your opinion tho ?
As a Farmer we still have one on the farm and it still never lets us down , never has , yeah mechanical issues but the engine will always start 😁
Doesn't matter when you can fix it all yourself with simple tools I guess. Simple things break more but are easier and cheapier to fix. Electronics can be a real bastard on modern cars that and the cramped engine bays where routine maintaince like a cambelt requires lifting the engine from the car.
but is it as bad condition like this one?
@@thefinch8021 Its Worse but doesn't go on the road , just used to get around on the Farm
I'm still plowing snow in Canada with a 1955 Ser 1 all original except for swapping the dynamo to an alternator to handle the hoist unit better. @@badtimmymagic3896
@@gravemind6536 One thing I've learned from having two oldtimer (72/49* ((*originally 38)) is that, yes they might require "more" work looking after them, but there's nothing that you can't fixed with standard tools... Reliability through simplicity I always say.
The memories of me sitting in the middle of my Grandpa's Series 3S and getting hit on the knee when going to 2nd or 4th gear is flooding back.
Me : *sees title*
Also me: well yes but actually no
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Back when land rovers weren’t Chelsea tractors , reliable “ish” and driven properly and for the actual purpose it was built for
Lol. Instead of being Chelsea Tractors they were just tractors. That hole that Alex fisted at the back? That's for the PTO to drive farm equipment. Don't get that on the new defender.
@@douglaspealing5608 🤯🤯 good knowledge! I didn't realise they could run pto's (another internet rabbit hole has just opened up)! Do you know how it worked? Guessing it came from the transfer case? I always assumed that it was just cheaper for the rear chassis crossmember to match the middle in which the drive shaft goes through that hole!
@@teddypendergrass20 I'm not sure on the specifics myself tbh but yea my guess would be transfer box driven.
@Jorn Navarre there is actually nothing wrong with the reliability of old land rovers. They were of comparable level to anything else at the time, with only Rolls Royce's really being any better than anything else. Toyota wasn't the powerhouse it is today and at the time, for this kind of work, nothing could beat a land rover. Granted there is better machinery now, but from back then? Nothing was as versatile. The army used them for a reason
@Jorn Navarre It was far more reliable than any Toyota, when was the last time you saw a sixty year old one?
I’m guessing you lot don’t know how to bump start a car 😑
Just thinking same.
They didn't need to. The engine was turning over just fine, so push the choke in and give it full throttle to clear the carb. It'll start just fine.
Peyton mac Yeah, exactly, but cranking the starter as they’re pushing isn’t how you bump start it is what I meant 😂
"Fix everything with a hammer" Jeremy Clarkson's favorite type of car
I live in Costa Rica and you can see those land rovers in the streets all the time, they run forever, in all shapes, some restored some original, but they run forever
Of course they’d run forever there Land Rovers before bmw ruined then
Did you know the grill on the Land Rover was designed to be used as something to cook on emergency situation
And there was much uproar when they went plastic on the S3's !
An accidental alternative use rather than a a drawing office intention
Please dont try this unless you have an S1 or 2. Mind you funny seeing people eating sausages whilst pulling off! (in light of all the choking jokes)bits of charred melted plastic off their food
Wouldn't the food just fall off tho'?
Thanks for the video. After this my Lada Niva feels like a S class.
2:39 Getting range & 4WD levers mixed up there. Brilliant !
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone noticed it :D I am glad you did
@@soheilshah1 Did you also notice the tow-ball was dropping off ? One of the bolts missing. And what have they done with the back - it should drop down but it almost looks like they've pop riveted it shut! ?
@@millomweb bitsa as they said
The Volvo 240 is a space ship compared to this xD
I daily a 240 and also have a series 2 Land Rover 😂
@@nedclarke2716 and you dream about having Volvo 740 or 940? ;) ;) ;)
steifan perhaps as a drift car
@@nedclarke2716 shame ;) (//740 enthusiast-owner)
5:40 Jack’s super early “kick it” 😂😂😂
A very timely video as I've spent a good chunk of my week off crawling around my '67 Series IIA 109" after I've let it lapse into disuse for a few years!
When I got it it was slow and thirsty (77bhp and 12mpg) . Now has a Discovery engine (111bhp and 28mpg) and despite being agricultural it has just shrugged off any task I've asked of it without breaking a sweat...
Well except for the high speed task... Got it off the end of the speedo and it was still pulling but I got an insight into how astronauts must feel upon re-entering the Earths atmosphere 🤣
For all it's 53yo and temperamental I wouldn't want to be without the old girl on my drive 😁
An addendum to yesterday's post. Put a freshly charged battery on it today and the old girl burst into life on the first stab of the button 😁🥂😁
This is the beginnings of the new good top gear, you boys are quality.
Motortrend roadkill alike feature length road trip videos next please.
I agree with that😄
Love an old Land Rover. In low range you shift from 1st to 2nd at like 5mph.
I remember I borrowed a series 3 when my Toyota Starlet packed up a few years ago. (the irony there) before I got used to it I went to turn across a junction and casually set off in third by mistake... thought it felt a bit weird but it didn't really bother the car too much. Awesome cars
I love these living with videos especially with classic cars.
Living with a classic mini next lads?
Or a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle.
Love how the cutaway highway shots of the Rover show one person yet there are three of you in the cab, thought we wouldn't notice did ya? Lol
Learned to drive in one of those 1997 good times. Motorway driving was an experience no chance of being caught speeding though. Amazing fun in the summer with a full canvas roof. My dad dailied a 90 is for 10 yeas 60 miles a day. Bonkers bit of kit.
The way he goes “WHERE IS HE?!” When he can’t find 3rd has me screaming
yes haha
Why
My '67 2A is my daily driver. (When it's not broken...)
My '67 IIa is currently in a position where tomorrow I'm going to try to start it for the first time in about 4 years 😅
@@garethreece just commenting to see the replies on if it starts or not 👀
@@elsden722 You'll probably hear me either cheering or cursing when I find out (wherever you are in the world) 🤣
Fresh fluids and a freshly charged battery should give the old bus a fighting chance...
I'm sharing a bed with Scarlett Johannson. (When she's not busy with Films...)
Edit: if it's been sitting for 4 years, chances are the Carburetors will have clogged up... and make sure you have a fuel Filter in, in case there's rust in the tank.
@@MadIIMike With all the productions shut down at the moment due to CV19 all I can say is... Jammy sod 🤣🤣
Favorite Car Throttle quote: "We'll edit it out"
Do you think that maybe Top Gear said that first?
@@timbroad6786 no
This is the most I’ve laughed during any Car Throttle video
I learnt to drive in an early Series 3 so this brought back some great memories! Starting a car with a choke and double de-clutching was just a normal day!
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I was literally screaming at Alex for not knowing where the petrol cap was 😂😂😂
I was shouting at the screen when he couldn’t find the petrol filler 😂
Beeing from east germany i at first thought it could be under the bonnet (just like a trabant) but that would have been to easy, wouldn,t it?
I knew the 1 and the lightweight had it there but didn't know the early 2 did as well. My '67 IIa has the same tank location but an external filler just behind the driver's door
Lol same 😂
@@garethreece The 1 and 2 did, the series 3 (iirc) were the ones that had an external filler. Many years ago I had the chance to buy a preproduction (so I was told) series 1 with 1.6 engine and soft top, I passed it up but looking at the prices now kinda wished I hadn't.
@@MegaDirtyberty The IIa certainly has an external. My '67 109 is just behind the driver's door. Mate had a IIa 109 with the tank mounted under the rear tub with the filler towards the rear (like I believe the III did)
Oof yeah but hindsight is always 20/20. I know the feeling though... wanted a Porsche 944 about 10 years ago. Could pick up a good one for pennies then but I was worried about running cost... 😢
gotta love that 14:01 edit with all 3 still in there
jamie barrett oh yeah lol