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ADD 249 B – Mick Outhwaites IIA

Mick Outhwiates IIA was purchased to fill the following criteria;

A vehicle large enough to transport and sleep 4 people.

Is capable of going just about anywhere vehicles can go.

Is cheap to maintain and does not depreciate.

Can sit on the Series 2 Club stand at Land Rover shows

The only vehicles that fitted his needs was either a IIA or IIB Forward Control.

ADD was bought as it was in a state as to be wroth repairing, but also at the point where it could be modified to suit Micks needs, without radically altering a good vehicle.

It had previously worked as a Crop Sprayer, and was also used as a water bowser, and had had quite a list of modifications carried out throughout its working life.

Micks plans for a camper conversion were embodied in a model, which he built whilst in a wheelchair after a crash in his 88” IIA.

The finished article will hopefully look something like this, but with a Dormobile style roof, not present on the model as he didn’t know how to make one.

The vehicle is being fitted with a Perkins 4.236 Diesel engine, driving through an LT95 from a Range Rover, and sitting on a pair of axles from a Stage One V8, firstly because they are fitted with 3.54 ratio diffs, better suited to the LT95, and also the front axle has CV joints, which also copes with the LT95’s permanent four wheel drive better than the standard axles.

Hopefully Mick will get round to adding a bit more information, and a few more pictures in the not too distant future.

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