Landy News from Kelvin

As everyone probably saw from Joe’s pictures, the Landy is all stripped down and some interesting points have been revealed.

The engine removed turns out to be from an early series 2 and not a 3, i.e 1962 not 1974 so will remove the one from the spare car as that is period correct. Worried that the gearbox removed was of similar vintage and non synchromesh I checked the gearbox number and found that it was the original box for the car, a 4 speed all synchromesh unit. Upon checking the gearbox in the spare car it turns out that the two gearboxes are 90215260 and 90215261, consecutive numbers that came off the production line one after the other.  Incredible to think that after 45 years the two end up next to each other in my yard. I thought that the chassis numbers being only 4 apart was amazing but this is even more so.

Also found out that the spare car originally had an overdrive unit fitted as well as a limited slip diff in the back end. Shame they are not still there!

Happy New Brunswick day.

Kelvin.