Our Searle Safari
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:29 pm
After creating another post, I realised that I had not put anything in members motors on this here forum. So here you go, the story of (one of) our motor(s) so far:
Back in 2010 I had a couple of weeks off from one of my trips overseas that happen every now and again, one morning I was doing a search on eBay and stumbled upon this. I can't remember the exact date, however I remember it was a Monday Morning, the motor had just been listed and I was travelling back the following Sunday. The advert finished Monday / Tuesday - can't remember when but that's not important for now. I emailed the guy, explained the situation but he was having nothing of it. Anyway I put it in watching, showed Mel, she said it was nice, told my Dad, had a few drinks, forgot about it, then remembered again on the Thursday. Remembered that there was a telephone number on the advert, gave it a ring, no answer! Left a text, didn't think anything of it. He called me back 4pm Thursday afternoon, I agreed to go down the following morning. Worst case scenario was, go and look at Land Rover, if I liked it put a bid on, get Mel and my Dad to go and pick it up. I got there, we fell in love, he opened the door and the first thing he said was "I should have told you to come down with a big bag of cash and we could have talked money" From that moment on I was 90% sure I was going to drive it home. So that's the start of the story, the rest as they say is history:
I'll kick off with some eBay photo's for now, which sparked the interest:
The morning after the night [drive home] before:
The Front (Sans Jerrican holders)
The back end & passenger side
Drivers side
Passenger side
Clock, with bit missing. I originally thought there was a bit missing, however it looks like there is a blanking plate where the temperature gauge normally goes, as you will see that there is no writing by the side of it
Map table and light
The Cooker
The Engine Bay
More updates to follow!
Back in 2010 I had a couple of weeks off from one of my trips overseas that happen every now and again, one morning I was doing a search on eBay and stumbled upon this. I can't remember the exact date, however I remember it was a Monday Morning, the motor had just been listed and I was travelling back the following Sunday. The advert finished Monday / Tuesday - can't remember when but that's not important for now. I emailed the guy, explained the situation but he was having nothing of it. Anyway I put it in watching, showed Mel, she said it was nice, told my Dad, had a few drinks, forgot about it, then remembered again on the Thursday. Remembered that there was a telephone number on the advert, gave it a ring, no answer! Left a text, didn't think anything of it. He called me back 4pm Thursday afternoon, I agreed to go down the following morning. Worst case scenario was, go and look at Land Rover, if I liked it put a bid on, get Mel and my Dad to go and pick it up. I got there, we fell in love, he opened the door and the first thing he said was "I should have told you to come down with a big bag of cash and we could have talked money" From that moment on I was 90% sure I was going to drive it home. So that's the start of the story, the rest as they say is history:
I'll kick off with some eBay photo's for now, which sparked the interest:
The morning after the night [drive home] before:
The Front (Sans Jerrican holders)
The back end & passenger side
Drivers side
Passenger side
Clock, with bit missing. I originally thought there was a bit missing, however it looks like there is a blanking plate where the temperature gauge normally goes, as you will see that there is no writing by the side of it
Map table and light
The Cooker
The Engine Bay
More updates to follow!