Land Rover lightweight....whats it worth?

[stratie]

Hi guys, can any one tell me what my landie is worth?
It's a series 3 on an 82 plate.
It's got a drop top hood in black mohair, it folds back and you can allso unzip the sides.
The hood and folding frame work was just over a £1000.
It had a new motor fitted at the end of it's milatary life, it's allso converted to unleaded and has an electronic egnition.
Webber carb.
New starter motor and alternator.
New brakes and brake pistons, plus new hand brake.
Rocky mountain parabolics.
The chassis is solid.
If and when i sell her, she will have 12 months mot and a new coat of paint.
The gearbox is spot on.
I've added some pictures (fingers crossed they work)

[stratie]

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[stratie]

The motor is sweet

[stratie]

Parabolics

[stratie]

 

[stratie]

Clean inside.

[Range Rover Blues]

Oh stop it, you're making me want one :'(

[stratie]

Then buy this one 

[Porny]

Hrrmmmm.... that is nice.

But - I'd be interested in it without the roof, the wheels and tyres... and as is save you painting/MOT'ing etc etc.

Even then,  I probably couldn't afford what you'd want for it.  PM if you have a price in mind though.



Ian

[stratie]

Hello mate, it's been along time 
Im not a fan of the wheels and i dont much like the hood. As for the price.....
As you know i have been out of the land rover game for 3 maybe 4 years, and i haven't got a clue what lightweights sell for these days.
Cut along story short....
I did a deal on one of my moto cross bikes for the lightweight as i wanted to do some off roading. Now this is going to sound silly, but i think she is far to good to to turn into an off roader....lift kit/monster wheels and tyres ect.
It would seem a shame to wreck her. Cant be that many lightweights about now that look like this old girl.
I could put a set of standerd wheels her, and im sure i could track down a hood.

[suggs]

howdie mate

my honest opinion is the roof isnt doing you any favors even though it was exspensive, there is defo a market for Lightweights but it tends to be the army fans that will pay top money for a genuine ex services truck, especialy if its fitted for radio etc etc.

i dont think anyone will pay extra for that hood but ive seen lightweights go for £750-£5000. i bought one in a very similar condition to yours and had the same wheels but a standed hood, i payed £1600 for it but that was about 7yrs ago and from a mate.

id be tempted to stick the hood on eblag and see what happens, then try to pick up a cheap original roof or an aftermarket bikini roof etc give it a paint up and maybe try it at £2500.

that said when i had mine i fitted a bikini roof, 33/12.5 mud tyres etc etc, ended up doing a swop with a army fan about a year later who wanted to put it back to full milly spec, we done a straight swop for a mint 3.9 Vouge SE that i then sold for £3500 but again that was 6yrs ago when classic Rangies still made that money

i saw the lightweight a few years later at Billing full camo'd up with full Army kit fitted, looked the nutts and was probley worth about 5k then to the right person..

[stratie]

Cheers mucker 
I'll get shot of the hood and wheels, and give her a splash of paint.
I'll find a second hand hood and set of wheels and see what happens.
Would the hood thats on it at the moment fit other landies?

[suggs]

fairly sure that standed hoods on 88 inch series landys and lightweights are the same, yours looks to be a bespoke hood  but theres a good chance it will fit..

i think you may get a nice few quid for that on eblag, not sure i would show pics of it fitted though just pics of it off the truck...

you could paint the wheels black, would look better..

[Range Rover Blues]

a straight swop for a mint 3.9 Vouge SE

Now if you fancy swapping it for a 3,9 Vogue SE I just happen to have one......

....but somehow I think lightweights have held their money a bit better than RRC :(

[pux]

weeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy stratie dude were ya been :shock: defo go down the route of putting a standard tilit back on it and also it might be worth trying to find some original wheels and tyres too :P but i would say if she is mint then 3k + ;) as i have been looking at light weights but that will be for next year. Good to see you back on the forums :D and good luck with the sale.

[stratie]

Hello pux mate hows it going fella, still got the disco?
Feel free to make me an offer on the LW mate 

[suggs]

anyway Brenden, are you giving up Landys again mate? sticking with the KTM..

[stratie]

No mate, i really want to get back into it as we have tow pukka pay n play sites (foxham and mintey) plus so may green lanes. My racing days are over, i've had to many knocks and my body cant take any more. Both shoulders and one of my knees are shot to bits. Im held together with metal plates.
I just feel this landy is to good to kill off road, so i'll sell her (if i can) and buy a tatty one to do up.

[suggs]

nice one mate

i oftern fancy another crosser, just dont fancy the injurys anymore either...

[Rich_P]

I think it's worth £1,800-2,000.  The fact that a lot of it isn't standard or "right" puts a fair few of the ex-military folk off I think.

[stratie]

  The fact that a lot of it isn't standard or "right"

The hood and the wheels is an easy sort out, what other parts do you think would need changing?

[Rich_P]

Spotlamps, wheel arch extensions and the tailgate doesn't look quite right to me for some reason (could be wrong/right?).

I know the ex-military crowd likes them in standard form, and I think that is one reason why the price has always been pushed up with standard good condition Lightweights.

[stratie]

The tailgate is 100% LW.
The spots and wheel arch extensions can be sorted.....thanks for pointing that out, as it was some thing i over looked.
Im not trying to make money on the LW. Im just trying to get my money back. I really think it would be a shame to off road a landie like this.

[lightweight-love]

its not really a good time for selling cars right now, iv seen some nice clean standard lightweights not reach the reserve of £1000 on ebay recently, proberly better luck on 4x4web.co.uk and other such sites, i agree with selling roof, but id try selling as she is before taking all extra bits off!

[stratie]

I like the look of yours, have you any more pics you could post up?
I built this one a few years ago, and i have a good chance of getting it back. It's now got a dead gearbox, but i can sort that.
I'll have alook at 4x4web and see what the score is.
Cheers fella.

[pux]

now thats uber cool stratie make yours look like that and stick a V8 in it :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

[suggs]

my old one..

[pux]

Right stop right now less of these lovely pics of light weights its making me want one even more now :'( :'( :'(

[lightweight-love]

that sounds good wud be nice to have one u made back n get cheapish wid knackered g-box hopefully!
heres best i have of mine recent, new mirrored headlights in now-not very good but look good! lol
u can just see the intercooler behind grille!

[stratie]

Suggs, im loving the canvas work, who did it and how much?
Allso what size tyre's and rim's were you running? and did they rub any of the body work?

Lightweight love, that is some kick arse looking bumper, whay size tyres and rim's are you running?
Allso did you have to mod that hard top to fit? I once had ago at fitting a truck cab to a lightweight, but the cab was miles to wide..how would you go about doing it?