PKG P38
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hello everybody! stumbled across this site last night looking for a more active LR forum since the other two i've found have either been desperately slow or just full of rude people with nothing intelligent to say, so here i am!
i'm from iowa and along with my best friend we have an ever growing fleet of cars and recently we caught the land rover bug. and it has gotten the best of both of us. my buddy picked up a very rare '97 AA yellow vitesse for a grand from an old farmer that thought the transmission was bad. --- it wasn't, it just needed a fly wheel. $300 in parts and its back on the road!
i did a facelift to it with some fresh paint on the bumper up front, grilles, suede headliner and a few other odds and ends. it has also had a coil conversion which is a huge plus and overall drives very well.
i loved his P38 so much i just HAD to have my own. last week i stumbled upon another '97, two owner vehicle and spotless. super clean exterior and interior (spare for a sagging headliner). previous owner said he couldn't get it to start, suspected the fuel pump to be shot -- after dumping well over a grand into it for a new headgasket and a bunch of other maintenance, he had enough and just wanted to dump it after only owning it for barely two months.
....it was just out of gas. no joke --
that said it needs a few other things, heater core o rings, PCV system and the cooling system could use some attention. he ran the thing so dry out of fuel i do suspect he may have damaged the fuel pump as a result, or at the least clogged the fuel filters since now i'm having a hard/intermittent no start. that said it does run very smooth and it too has had a full coil conversion from atlantic british. very anxious to get this one up to daily driver status since its just stunning to look at in person -- its a real pristine example of a P38.
anywho, on to a few pix of the P38's:
day one:
broken parts:
facelift!
and my new 4.0 SE model, only a few pix currently
first, getting it home:
i'm from iowa and along with my best friend we have an ever growing fleet of cars and recently we caught the land rover bug. and it has gotten the best of both of us. my buddy picked up a very rare '97 AA yellow vitesse for a grand from an old farmer that thought the transmission was bad. --- it wasn't, it just needed a fly wheel. $300 in parts and its back on the road!
i did a facelift to it with some fresh paint on the bumper up front, grilles, suede headliner and a few other odds and ends. it has also had a coil conversion which is a huge plus and overall drives very well.
i loved his P38 so much i just HAD to have my own. last week i stumbled upon another '97, two owner vehicle and spotless. super clean exterior and interior (spare for a sagging headliner). previous owner said he couldn't get it to start, suspected the fuel pump to be shot -- after dumping well over a grand into it for a new headgasket and a bunch of other maintenance, he had enough and just wanted to dump it after only owning it for barely two months.
....it was just out of gas. no joke --
that said it needs a few other things, heater core o rings, PCV system and the cooling system could use some attention. he ran the thing so dry out of fuel i do suspect he may have damaged the fuel pump as a result, or at the least clogged the fuel filters since now i'm having a hard/intermittent no start. that said it does run very smooth and it too has had a full coil conversion from atlantic british. very anxious to get this one up to daily driver status since its just stunning to look at in person -- its a real pristine example of a P38.
anywho, on to a few pix of the P38's:
day one:
broken parts:
facelift!
and my new 4.0 SE model, only a few pix currently
first, getting it home:
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