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adseybear

Member Since: 08 Oct 2009
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 260

Space to work on vehicles

Trying to think of ideas...

I'd like to start work next year restoring a Series 3 I have, requires a full ground up rebuild. I'm limited for space outside my house, no garage or anything, just a couple of driveway spots in front of the house. At a push I could put up a decently sized shed in the corner of the plot. But as I have nothing to the rear of my house, I wouldn't want the front to look like a scrapyard.

Currently I'm renting a caravan plot on a storage yard for £250 a year. They're happy enough for me to work on it there but there isn't the space to do a chassis swap. A plus being the access to power in the yard. Just down the track from the yard are a couple of back street repair garages, so I could do some kind of deal to give them a bit of work to build up a rolling chassis for me.

The cost of renting a dedicated unit would be too much to justify using it the odd weekend or evening, anyone have any other ideas?

I have thought about approaching local farmers (plenty round here) to see if they had any space in an outbuilding or a bit of land I could put something semi-permanent up on. But then power/water would be restricted. 2003 Defender 90 Td5 CSW Belize Green - "Betty"
1958 Series IIA 109 Station Wagon - "Randolph" - Awaiting Restoration
2019 Jeep Wrangler JL Rubicon - SOLD
2006 Volvo V70 D5 - Ocean Race Edition, SOLD
2003 VW Passat Estate 1.9TDI - SOLD
2008 BMW 320D M Sport Estate - SOLD
2001 Defender 90 Td5 Hard Top - SOLD

24th Nov 2016 9:41am

roel

Member Since: 08 Aug 2009
Location: Lelystad
Posts: 2039

Talk to a farmer nearby. This is how I did my first rebuild.

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In the summer period he had plenty off space, in the winter is was crowded as 80% off his building was full with Potatoes. Roel

1984 90 2.5 na Diesel - RR V8 (1994-2001)
1997 Camel Trophy Discovery 300TDI (2001-2009)
2005 G4 Discovery III 4.4 V8 (2008-2018) It's gone but it still hurts.
2003 90 Td5 (2009-now)

24th Nov 2016 12:38pm

Rashers

Member Since: 21 Jun 2015
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 3499

2014 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 USW Corris Grey

I would also endorse the local Farmer route.

Never rebuilt a Land Rover, but I restored a little International Tractor a few years ago and used a spare Farm Building.

The good thing about Farms is the larger the machinery gets, the less useful smaller buildings get so sometimes you can get lucky.

24th Nov 2016 1:59pm

JOW240725

Member Since: 04 May 2015
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 7906

2012 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Orkney Grey

We have redundant buildings on the farm which would be ideal, but a little far for you! However I would would be worth enquiring locally. Put some adverts up in the local Ag stores. Good luck

James
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24th Nov 2016 6:00pm

strang

Member Since: 16 May 2012
Location: Happy Valley
Posts: 1380

2009 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Galway Green

Have you heard of 'rent a ramp' and similar named places? these are garages where you can rent space to work in, they seem to have different but similar names and can be found on google. Although saying that, a chassis swap will probably take a while and may not be cost effective. Euro-Leafing to infinity and beyond.....

24th Nov 2016 8:01pm

adseybear

Member Since: 08 Oct 2009
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Posts: 260

JOW240725 wrote:
We have redundant buildings on the farm which would be ideal, but a little far for you! However I would would be worth enquiring locally. Put some adverts up in the local Ag stores. Good luck

Cheers. Gives me an idea that this is definitely a viable idea. I'll start asking around in the new year, appreciate the advice from everyone. 2003 Defender 90 Td5 CSW Belize Green - "Betty"
1958 Series IIA 109 Station Wagon - "Randolph" - Awaiting Restoration
2019 Jeep Wrangler JL Rubicon - SOLD
2006 Volvo V70 D5 - Ocean Race Edition, SOLD
2003 VW Passat Estate 1.9TDI - SOLD
2008 BMW 320D M Sport Estate - SOLD
2001 Defender 90 Td5 Hard Top - SOLD

25th Nov 2016 8:50am

L110CDL

Member Since: 31 Oct 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 10756

I would definitely go down the farmer route

as it worked for me as im hoping to start a project next year sometime

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

26th Nov 2016 11:38pm

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