I went to visit Liveridge when I was building my 109; I wanted to see how they trimmed the inside of their vehicles, modified the roof sides (hard tops) to accept the windows where they extended across the vertical reinforcing bars, and to see how they fitted the Trakkers seats and belts. My friend (a LR mechanic and former Royal Navy engineer) has to hide on the far side of the vehicle while the Liveridge service manager was showing me around the vehicle - he was on the brink of peeing himself with laughter at the horrified expression on my face (I'd be shockingly bad at Poker).
Looking around the rest of their yard brought to mind the old expression "You've never seen **** stacked so high". 10' high piles of old body panels being saved for re-use, dull paint on vehicles they were re-selling after only two years (and there were a curiously high number of them), cheap carpet glued to the sides and roofs of their high-spec "Countrymans", poorly mounted seats and belts, and the hard tops' sides flexed and bowed because of the removal of their reinforcing strips without relocating them after fitting windows, seriously weakening the load carrying and accident resistance in the roofs. Given what I saw, I wouldn't buy a cup of tea from them, let alone a £15000 LR rebuild.
