Hey Scott,
Thanks for asking. The series isn't mine though I've actually had it for the last two or three years. It's also sorta for sale as well except the owner can't get what he thinks its worth (close to $20G) which completely makes sense considering you can get decent RHD diesel 110 imports on coil springs these days for $15G or less, so it's basically sitting waiting for us to sort of bring it back to life and if he decides to finally get rid of it maybe he'll get something like $13G some day. It's a really neat specimen that was a clean RHD '68 IIa that is a little of a sad story. My friend sent his beautiful almost immaculate 1984 HJ47 Land Cruiser 2H diesel 5 speed troopie to a local shop (that I also worked at briefly for a few months, before it imploded) for a frame off restoration. Well, they completely took it apart, all nuts and bolts, switches, etc for the frame off... And poof, it was gone, the last he ever saw of it (again, really sad). In the meantime the owner built this truck for himself reasonably well but with some halfass stuff like the wiring and an unpainted custom dash that has since had some decent surface rusting and all aftermarket gauges (slightly ghetto in my opinion). He installed a 1998 Vortec V6 4.3 Liter with a nice custom exhaust and the famous H55F Land Cruiser non-USA 5 speed. So it is actually a pretty nice modern Series Rover that gets about 22 mpg and had been well in excess of 90 mph in the past (which I think is scary considering its original Series bits, drum brakes, steering, etc). It was also wrecked at the time so insurance basically paid for a new body and paint and resto though it had already been restored before it left England which is why it looks so good. It also has the stock Salsbury rear axle of course, but an ARB as well. Beefed up springs, 33 x 9.5 R 15 on steel wheels. After a few years karma really started to get back to the owner and addition to just feeling guilty, so he gave the guy this Rover in exchange (also thinking it was worth way more than the Troopie - which it is not) but at least the guy has some neat vehicle as a result of it all. He is a pro mountain biker so when it runs he takes it to races and all sorts of neat events so it does get around to some pretty cool places.
I was thinking this fall some time finally if we're lucky we'll get it back running. It basically needs a clutch. It also needed a fuel tank and some cooling additions as it ran a hair hot with the Vortec. I have the parts, just need to put them in....
