They are screengrabs off a youtube video, not aware of any proper photos. I can't find the video just now.

A slightly earlier vehicle is in this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJzz8aU3Ztw

Quote from: BradfordS2 on Yesterday at 10:22 PMAre there any more or better photos of the  artic Land Rovers?

I wouldn't mind having a go at modelling one.

Or better still, build one.😊

Are there any more or better photos of the  artic Land Rovers?

I wouldn't mind having a go at modelling one.

Thank you both for such useful information. It is very helpful.  I am sure a lot of people elect to go metric but it would be nice to get the imperial. Fortunately the unc that ho into the steering box are ok. Just need a clean of the threads. The two small 5/16 (i think) joined by the lock plate might be okay, too.
I may have to go and challenge my local fasteners guy. I do teach his daughter, so that might help.

Thus the definitive answer? From the date it was possible to buy either, which sold the most? The 109.

1. Stereotypical worldwide 109 buyer was a business or the military.
2. Stereotypical UK 88 buyer was a farmer.

It's certain some were private buyers, only not in great number. Suspect they were middle-England and bought the 109 CSW or the huning/shooting crowd. But that's only he UK. There were more business and military customers worldwide hence more 109s sold. The 109s had a harder life and at 15-20 years old, 88 or 109 - these were just 'old vehicles' of little or no value. The places they wound-up were not businesses, thus not kind to 109s.

Present day: Now on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th.... UK owner, with the odd firewood/ local-tip run, listen to the party-line and present owners would have us believe ownership motives are the same as the first buyers.

There's umpteen 88s to every 109 thus by dint of survival rates it's a moot point.

True. While the LHD 2.25 petrol 88" was the largest selling individual model overseas, the 109" outsold the 88" comprehensively abroad in RHD export petrol (72%) and RHD export CKD petrol guise (65%), leading to higher overall numbers of 109" IIAs sold (55.5% overall by my reckoning).

Quote from: Mycroft on Yesterday at 06:23 PM

Quote from: NoBeardNoTopKnot on Yesterday at 02:27 PMI think we mix 'popularity then or now' with sales figures. Except in the first year or so of production, buyers bought rather more 109s than 88s.
You had to have a need for an 88, and not everyone had that, 88s are not as practical, they bought more 109s.

88s were LESS popular with buyers.

However as 88s & 109s progressed thru' the food-chain it is the 88 that better survives. Hence popular now.

According to Gaydon records, 88" IIas took up over 57% of the UK Land Rover market, with petrol 88" models being by far the most common type sold (41.6% of all UK sales).

This is true, but with export figures included the lwb was the biggest seller. Apparently the most common type was a 109" truck cab. Also worth remebering quite a lot (although still very much a minority) of export vehicles ended up being sold in the UK, for example the searle conversions.

Lovely day today

I just got this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135021624857?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zrlcd_jdthi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Fxm85MKLRNC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

And this, so im sorted now!!!


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135021624857?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zrlcd_jdthi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Fxm85MKLRNC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'm interested in that bulkhead hole to the left of the Smiths heater. It looks chewed out rather than rust. Do you know it's origin or purpose, Exile?