The Rover-Landers of BC

I have recently acquired 2 discovery 1's from my dad, one with a v8 (the green one) and the other with a 300 tdi and 5 speed r380 transmission with a salvage title (the blue one). I plan to convert the green one to a 300 tdi with the parts from the other truck.
So far I have removed both motors and torn the interior out of the green truck as I plan on repainting it. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly I have also discovered (no pun intended) :D quite a bit of rust that will need to be repaired before I put in the new motor.
Some fun but unnecessary things I've done are put the steel wheels on and start on a stainless steel raised air intake.
I will add to this forum as progress continues.

Be interesting to see how this goes, good luck

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I swear I didn’t put him up to this!!


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Great picture!

this is what I hope to do one day cant wait to see how it turns out!

More Progress!!
I have now almost fully taken out the interior and wiring harness.
I have found more rust in various places which I'm not too happy about, but I've seen worse so I think I got lucky.
There are other rust holes as well but I don't have photos of them.

I have now started the task of rust repair. I have taken out the drivers-side inner fender by drilling out many spot welds and peeling away tons of seem sealer Intel it came out. I then made a cardboard template and made a new piece out of fresh metal.
I haven't quite finished it but I got it test fitted in the truck and it sorta fits!!

Whatever happened to this build? I’d love to see more!