kroozzn63 wrote:oooooooooooooooohhh i love those light round lights mmmmmmmmmmmm
They really are cool, eh?
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I didn't end up getting out to pick it up until the Wednesday of the following week but in the end a mate from work helped me. As usual my tow vehicle was my trusty 6-cylinder '68 Land Rover IIa Ute.
Unfortunately not all things go smoothly and in my experience moving old cars is fraught with problems. The '55 was no exception. All the tyres were long flat and the front 2 wheels were stuck properly in the hole it had been sitting in. I gave every wheel a good thumping with a sledge hammer to unstick the drums and managed to pull it out with a snatch strap on the third attempt but the driver's front wheel would not move and the drum was rusted solid. This problem would turn out to be something that plagued me throughout the move.
Hitched up and ready to snatch:
Out of the hole.....note the trail front the stuck drum:
Towing it through the paddock up to the trailer:
When we got up to the gate where the trailer was we had more issues. My mate took the wheel off and we whacked the drum some more but it wasn't going to happen. The flat stuck tyre also was like a trying to drag a plow. So we took the rim off and dragged it onto the trailer using the hand winch which, as it happened, also wasn't strong enough!
Off comes the wheel on a last attempt to get the drum moving:
Halfway up the ramp but stuck again:
My workmate Thady taking a break:
In the finish we used the Landy as a brake vehicle for the trailer and used the owner's early model Land Cruiser ute to pull it up onto the trailer. Basically we strapped the kombi to the bullbar and backed the 'Cruiser up until it was ok. We didn't get back to my place until 9:30pm......that was 5 and half hours since we'd left. I filled up the drum with INOX (a penetrating fluid) whacked it with the sledge hammer a few more times for good measure and hoped for the best.
