Archives de catégorie : Car overhauling

Land Rover Discovery 1 – 3.9L – V8

Now that we live in africa, we decided to get us proper 4×4.
Amongst the ones that we had was a brilliant Discovery 2 – Phase 1 – TD5 in pristine condition, with super genius seat covers… pity we sold it, but that was to upgrade to Discovery 3 TDV6.

Surprisingly I got a little bit jealous, thus I decided to get myself « an oldie » (wonder why ….). And found and old « madala ».

A very pristine 90’ies Discovery 1 v8 in excellent condition. Still working on it to bring it back to it’s former glory but already working well…

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Another Iltis… well 2 actually … that’ll end up in 1… named frankenstein

Eventually bought 2 iltis long ago with a friend. Both with well damaged body, hence I’ve decided to buy a separate (less damaged) body and rebuil it all.
long & hard work : cut, crush, weld, clean, rebuild… see for yourself.
Delivery date : somewhere later 🙂

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Toyota Corolla HatchBack 1985 (E82 type)

The Toyota Corolla E80 is a range of small automobiles manufactured and marketed by Toyota from 1983 to 1987 as the fifth generation of cars under the Corolla and Toyota Sprinter nameplates, with production totaling approximately 3.3 million, and most models adopting a front-wheel drive layout.

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