Bought another Brit...

jordimussol · 17th November 2018, 19:51

No, it's not an MG, but a Land Rover. And a Spanish made Santana 88 Especial.

Series 3 Land Rover 88 SWB. Bought it for a song and been busy fiddling with it.

For those who recognise my nickname, I've been a little absent, since my ZT is going on very well actually (other than a few door dings from [insert any swear word here] drivers over here), and been busy with work and other things.

I recently had Jon Norris from Rough Luck Racing (top bloke, met him years ago at FRL2011) over here and him & Claire fixed my MGF and also replaced my clutch. Still awaiting on getting it MOT'd and hopefully will be driving it soon.

So far my 'fleet' of British vehicles now goes like this:

2004 MG ZT 2.0CDTi
2004 Triumph Speed Triple 955i
1996 MGF 1.8 MPi
1979 Land Rover Santana 88 Especial 2 1/4 Diesel
1979 Triumph Bonneville 750 T140E

Here it is getting it's tires pumped from my ZT's ciggie lighter compressor

tantallon · 18th November 2018, 03:54

Be aware the Santana is far from being a Landrover Few mechanical parts are shared with UK built LandRovers .Some parts in particular steering parts are virtually unobtainable.

jordimussol · 18th November 2018, 07:16

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Originally Posted by tantallon

Be aware the Santana is far from being a Landrover Few mechanical parts are shared with UK built LandRovers .Some parts in particular steering parts are virtually unobtainable.

You're forgetting I'm from Spain and live there. They're everywhere over here. I have two Series 2 dead ones on my farm as my father used to run them and can nick a few parts off them.

RoverP480 · 18th November 2018, 07:40

Santana originally built Land Rovers under licence and were very similar to UK ones, gradually they took on more and more local manufacture even building a 6 cylinder version of the 4 pot 2.25L . We had both 4 & 6 cylinder ones at Rover to check out . I also purchased an Ex 1980 Land Rover 88" S3 in 1981. It turned to have was fitted with a new engine & gearbox before sale as it had been a test bed for a Santana Engine & gearbox before being sold.

jordimussol · 19th November 2018, 07:09

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Originally Posted by RoverP480

Santana originally built Land Rovers under licence and were very similar to UK ones, gradually they took on more and more local manufacture even building a 6 cylinder version of the 4 pot 2.25L . We had both 4 & 6 cylinder ones at Rover to check out . I also purchased an Ex 1980 Land Rover 88" S3 in 1981. It turned to have was fitted with a new engine & gearbox before sale as it had been a test bed for a Santana Engine & gearbox before being sold.

I've been doing some research and the only difference with my S3 and a UK S3 is position of steering wheel and some minor details such as rear light clusters, badges (ours have the added SANTANA to the oval LandRover logo). I'm not sure if our dashes are also different, cheap nasty plastics.

As you say the 2.5/2500 were different models based on the older chassis as yours were updated. Then the Cazorla 6cyl is quite different and that was a Santana exclusive model.

Then we also had the 88 Turbo:

willshot · 19th November 2018, 07:27

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Originally Posted by jordimussol

I recently had Jon Norris from Rough Luck Racing (top bloke, met him years ago at FRL2011) over here and him & Claire fixed my MGF and also replaced my clutch. Still awaiting on getting it MOT'd and hopefully will be driving it soon.

Blimey, Jon Norris has done a couple of jobs at my home on my MGTF. Last one was to change the belts. He certainly gets about. Top man as you say.

17th November 2018, 19:51	#1
jordimussol Avid contributor 2005 MG ZT & 1996 MGF Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Mallorca Posts: 174 Thanks: 24 Thanked 67 Times in 32 Posts	Bought another Brit... No, it's not an MG, but a Land Rover. And a Spanish made Santana 88 Especial. Series 3 Land Rover 88 SWB. Bought it for a song and been busy fiddling with it. For those who recognise my nickname, I've been a little absent, since my ZT is going on very well actually (other than a few door dings from [insert any swear word here] drivers over here), and been busy with work and other things. I recently had Jon Norris from Rough Luck Racing (top bloke, met him years ago at FRL2011) over here and him & Claire fixed my MGF and also replaced my clutch. Still awaiting on getting it MOT'd and hopefully will be driving it soon. So far my 'fleet' of British vehicles now goes like this: 2004 MG ZT 2.0CDTi 2004 Triumph Speed Triple 955i 1996 MGF 1.8 MPi 1979 Land Rover Santana 88 Especial 2 1/4 Diesel 1979 Triumph Bonneville 750 T140E Here it is getting it's tires pumped from my ZT's ciggie lighter compressor __________________ This vehicle was the 14,383rd ZT to run off the production line, out of 18,894 This vehicle was the 2,487th ZT CDTi + (135) to be made out of 4,184 This vehicle was the 2,112th ZT in XPower Grey (code: LEF) to be made out of 3,143 XPower Grey ZTs

18th November 2018, 03:54	#2
tantallon Gets stuck in ROVER 75 SALOON Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Peterborough Posts: 597 Thanks: 386 Thanked 316 Times in 144 Posts	Be aware the Santana is far from being a Landrover Few mechanical parts are shared with UK built LandRovers .Some parts in particular steering parts are virtually unobtainable.

18th November 2018, 07:40	#4
RoverP480 Gets stuck in None at the moment Join Date: Jan 2018 Location: Hereford Posts: 501 Thanks: 1 Thanked 165 Times in 146 Posts	Santana originally built Land Rovers under licence and were very similar to UK ones, gradually they took on more and more local manufacture even building a 6 cylinder version of the 4 pot 2.25L . We had both 4 & 6 cylinder ones at Rover to check out . I also purchased an Ex 1980 Land Rover 88" S3 in 1981. It turned to have was fitted with a new engine & gearbox before sale as it had been a test bed for a Santana Engine & gearbox before being sold.