Series 1 Land Rover like kit car?

[CompoSimmonite]

Whitby Warrior ?

 

[Gareth0123]

No, this was definitely Landy series 1 shaped and with out the harsh lines of the Whitby Warrior..... but I can see where you are coming from

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[rtcosic]

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The collective have offered many easily eliminated possibilities, so there must be either a prototype kit car out there or a one-off special.

It was on a Q plate after all.

Is this going to be like that unidentified Ashley-like that was doing the rounds a while back? Tentatively identified as a prototype for an abandoned low volume model, wasn't it?

 

[tom2207]

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The collective have offered many easily eliminated possibilities, so there must be either a prototype kit car out there or a one-off special.

It was on a Q plate after all.

Is this going to be like that unidentified Ashley-like that was doing the rounds a while back? Tentatively identified as a prototype for an abandoned low volume model, wasn't it?

your just going to have to hunt it down now ,, Probably that Lucan fellow , taking hay to Shergar again.
looking forwards to the pics though .
are they posted now

ah ,, not Yeti.

 

[Ali]

Probably a mini moke? Horrible IMO

Can’t see the attraction, series Land rovers are basically kit cars anyway

 

[seriesonewelder]

maybe it was one of the half scale (or thereabouts) series ones that exist,

 

[Wedg1e]

Probably a mini moke? Horrible IMO

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Can’t see the attraction, series Land rovers are basically kit cars anyway

Wasn't the Moke BMC's attempt to flog the army a parachutable transport? Started with the SAS and Jeeps (in the Vosges I think) in WW2, then the Landie, but to be fair opening out the wheelarches on a Landie does not make it 'lightweight'

 

[Westfield-builder]

To be fair there was quite a bit more to it than altering the shape of the wheelarches. Air-Portable was closer to the mark than Lightweight

 

[Gareth0123]

No not a Mini Moke as I part owned one with a school mate way back in the mid 70s and bombed around Granddad's farm on it.

What I saw was bigger than a Toylander and carried a Q registration plate. Like I said in the original post I saw it for at least 20 seconds as it drove down our road and around the bend 100 metres further on

 

[Wedg1e]

Couldn't have been a Dutton Sierra?
An old TVR acquaintance of mine in Leeds (Roger aka 'tallbloke') has (or did have, I haven't been there in a while) a one-off Ginetta that was styled like a Rangey/ Matra Rancho. The chassis was about 6"x3" box as I recall.

 

[Wedg1e]

To be fair there was quite a bit more to it than altering the shape of the wheelarches. Air-Portable was closer to the mark than Lightweight

There's one near me that's been on axle stands for years, I can't see what there is less of compared to a standard one (besides the wings)

 

[RWD3M]

Couldn't have been a Dutton Sierra?
An old TVR acquaintance of mine in Leeds (Roger aka 'tallbloke') has (or did have, I haven't been there in a while) a one-off Ginetta that was styled like a Rangey/ Matra Rancho. The chassis was about 6"x3" box as I recall.

I remember those, ford mechanicals as I recall.

Anyoe suggested this (as unlikely as it is to be one of these!)?

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/suzuk...-suzuki-jimny-into-a-mini-land-rover-defender

 

[Gareth0123]

Couldn't have been a Dutton Sierra?
An old TVR acquaintance of mine in Leeds (Roger aka 'tallbloke') has (or did have, I haven't been there in a while) a one-off Ginetta that was styled like a Rangey/ Matra Rancho. The chassis was about 6"x3" box as I recall.

No not a Dutton Sierra: I last saw one of those a the Nowton Park show in Bury St Edmunds in 2004. It's not a cut back Rancho either...…….. I bought a Rancho in 1987 and sold it 1989 to buy a Peugeot 305 1905cc diesel van

 

[RWD3M]

No not a Mini Moke as I part owned one with a school mate way back in the mid 70s and bombed around Granddad's farm on it.

What I saw was bigger than a Toylander and carried a Q registration plate. Like I said in the original post I saw it for at least 20 seconds as it drove down our road and around the bend 100 metres further on

One of those times when you wish you'd picked up your phone on the way out of the house!

 

[Gareth0123]

One of those times when you wish you'd picked up your phone on the way out of the house!

I don't do mobile phones and was on the front door step at the time taking a Royal Mail delivery and was 6 maybe 7 metres from it as it passed by.

 

[Cobbler]

Rickman Ranger?

 

[tom2207]

There's one near me that's been on axle stands for years, I can't see what there is less of compared to a standard one (besides the wings)

they are skinnier too , and fuel tank under the even more basic seat , some had two tanks , one under each seat bonnets different too of course , in fact all the body work is different No hard tops available either ... lots had hard tops fitted as they came into civi life , but the hard tops are too wide.

 

[Wedg1e]

they are skinnier too , and fuel tank under the even more basic seat , some had two tanks , one under each seat bonnets different too of course , in fact all the body work is different No hard tops available either ... lots had hard tops fitted as they came into civi life , but the hard tops are too wide.

You learn a new thing every day

 

[stuvy]

You learn a new thing every day

Depends if it’s based on a Sierra or escort axle on its width

 

[colnerov]

Hi, One of these? Land rove Ant.

https://m.engineeringnews.co.za/art...e-made-in-south-africa-2019-08-26/rep_id:4433

http://www.landyonline.co.za/locals/land-rover-scaled-down-replica.htm

Colin