Land Rover S1 86"

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As the Heritage Certificate confirms, this Land Rover S1 86” left the Solihull works on 21st November 1955 and was presumably destined for military service as it was not road-registered by DVLA until January 1966.

The vendor acquired the car in 2011 as a rolling restoration and has done a fair bit of work but it still needs a few jobs doing before it can be pressed back into regular use. Work carried out to date includes a rebuilt gearbox and a new clutch; brakes overhauled; new road springs all round; new shocks; new seats; new wiring loom; new battery plus various other bits and bobs.

Although the car starts, runs, drives and stops, it still needs a few finishing touches and some fine tuning here and there to make it roadworthy (e.g. attention to the electrics). The vendor advises that some spares are also included (two new tyres, tailgate and other miscellaneous parts) but these will need to be collected from the Ludlow area if desired. Documentation includes a V5C, sundry invoices, an old MOT from 1996 and the aforementioned copy of the Heritage Certificate.

These rugged machines are simple to work on, parts are in cheap and plentiful supply, and any competent home mechanic will doubtless have this one back in service well before those severe Arctic conditions already being forecast by the Daily Express plunge the country back into the ice age – if they ever do…